*探讨整个食品链中一线工人的重要作用和剥削

消费者要求更健康、更可持续的食品体系。然而，劳动力却很少被提及。在《为食物工作》一书中，本书作者们记录了整个食品链中的劳动，将整个食品体系——从田间到商店、餐馆、家庭厨房，甚至垃圾场——连接起来。

作者运用政治经济学框架，论证了提高劳工标准、在各行业一线工人之间建立团结，对于构建更加公正的食品体系至关重要。他们问道，要建立一个没有人类剥削的食品体系，需要做些什么？本书结合了食品体系和劳工正义学术研究的洞见，并为政策制定者提供了切实可行的建议，呼吁劳工活动家、食品研究的学生和学者以及所有对食品正义感兴趣的人采取行动。

关于作者：

Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern is Associate Professor of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University. She is the author of The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability.

Teresa M. Mares is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Affiliated Faculty of Food Systems at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont.

好评：

"Eating organic, avoiding food additives, championing family farms, supporting animal rights—none of these worthy practices will make the American food system healthy. As the authors of this book make clear, our food system has been built on and continues to profit from the exploitation of poor immigrant workers. Food warehouses, slaughterhouses, grocery stores, and fast food restaurants depend on a transient, low-paid, low-skilled, and powerless workforce. Fresh fruits and vegetables—the foundation of a good diet—are still harvested largely by hand, under working conditions so terrible they evoke the harsh fictions of John Steinbeck and Émile Zola. Will Work for Food follows this trail of injustice from farm to plate. Without providing fair wages, a safe workplace, and a sense of dignity to the people who work hard to feed us, our food system will never be ethical or sustainable."—Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

"So many of our contemporary crises—from climate disasters to public health emergencies to punitive immigration policies—underscore our dependence on and exploitation of frontline food workers. This insightful and clearly written book offers a prescient analysis of the production of worker precarity across the food system while attending to complex intersections with race, gender, and citizenship. Most importantly, Will Work for Food highlights the potential for systems-level, cross-sector organizing and coalition building that can broaden the political imaginaries of food and labor movements."—Alison Hope Alkon, author of Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability

"This book is a remarkable synthesis of historical and current data, interwoven with brilliant and empathetic analysis of labor across the food chain. Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Teresa Mares ground the book in the firsthand experiences of people harvesting vegetables, slaughtering animals, cooking meals, 'rescuing' wasted food, and everything in between. They encourage readers to widen their perspective of who 'counts' as a food worker by using a food systems lens that encompasses both paid food work outside the home and unpaid food work inside the home. The result is an invaluable and highly teachable resource, deeply engaging for students, scholars, consumers, workers, and activists eager to understand the conditions and organizing strategies of frontline food system workers."—Jennifer Gaddis, author of The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools