Acknowledgements

The Northwest Arkansas Workers’ Justice Center would like to thank the foundations and partners who generously contributed to this report: the University of California-Berkeley Food Labor Research Center, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC), Oxfam America, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Norman Foundation, New World Foundation, Left Tilt Fund, Unitarian Universalist Association, Southern Partners Fund, the Berger-Marks Foundation, Interfaith Worker Justice, Food Chain Workers Alliance, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, and United Food and Commercial Workers International-Research Division.

We would also like to thank members of Saru Jayaraman’s Food Systems Policy course, Christina Fletes, Akasemi Newsome, and Iman Mamdouh, and UUSC’s editor, Jessica L. Atcheson, for their support.

Most of all, we are grateful for the participation of the poultry workers whose stories and survey results appear in this study.