Globalisation from below: the fair food program

Abstract

The Fair Food Project by Community of Immokalee Workers presents a social movement that transitions from a local, grassroots project in a marginalised farming community in the US, to an institutional program of worker-led social responsibility. The driving factor of this social movement is the presence globalisation from below. It entails social justice and academic networks that aim to link marginalised communities to new conceptions of their place in the socio-economic context of their world. This acts as both the pre-condition necessary for change, as well as the tool for change itself, working primarily through popular education and expanding information and identity networks. The network pathways of globalisation from below are the initial enablers for the tangible drivers of social movements.