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This memo introduces students and faculty to the Food Chain Workers Alliance (FCWA), the 2023 recipient of the Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Award given by the Critical Political Science section of the American Political Science Association. Founded in 2009, FCWA provides a model of how to build and sustain agrifood worker power across the food chain from farm to table. Its coalition illustrates key themes relevant to the study of how we might transform the agrifood system by centering the diverse workers who provide us with our daily food. Three themes stand out from this discussion: the importance of the decommodification of labor, the interconnection of labor and alternative food movements, and the need to connect rural with urban spaces. For students, FCWA provides rich material for research papers on a policy issue with important implications for climate change, for constructing concepts such as food justice and food democracy, and for studying how coalitions strengthen the impact of intersectional activists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
