Co-editors: Susan Levine, University of Illinois at Chicago; Steve Striffler, University of New Orleans; Special issue of LABOR Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas (Web)

Deadline: 1 October 2013

Food studies has become an important field for research as well as for activist-oriented students and faculty. A spate of new literature looks at foodways and identity, agricultural policy and the industrialization of the food system, commodity chains and globalization. What is missing from this new work is a historical look at food and agriculture as sites of work. The classic labor histories of meat-packing, restaurant work, or food boycotts, for example, have yet to be up-dated in response to this new research.

We will be editing a special volume of Labor focusing on the history of food work broadly defined. Possible topics include: Read more and source …