Jon Magee
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Strategies to get fair compensation for workers and owners
As part of my technical assistance role at the Agricultural Justice Project, I frequently coach farmers on how to achieve living wages and fair working conditions, both for their employees and for themselves. Implementing fair working conditions seems easier than fair wages, not least because many policy changes don’t come with direct costs, and employees themselves can help with the managerial burden of planning and training. Many fair practices also hold out the promise of improving the bottom line over the medium to long term, as I describe below.
Five Faces of Oppression
Partial synopsis of Justice and the Politics of Difference, by Iris Marion Young (1990), helpful for facilitating conversations about what justice means given the different ways that people experience oppression.
Throughout the 1980s and even still today, many people have dismissed “identity politics” as a mere distraction. Iris Young’s book Justice and the Politics of Difference was a milestone in the fight to prove that so-called “identity politics” had serious demands and ambitions for social transformation. Young synthesized years of theorizing by social movements, presenting claims for social justice in a clear, incisive form that was hard for mainstream liberals to ignore. Her book is particularly helpful for how it talks about power and its relation to oppression.
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