More important, the fast-food workforce is just under four million and growing, and the main companies are so rich and powerful that the stakes are higher than in any labor struggle in recent memory.
One way or another, the low wages of the fast-food workforce are costing you money.
Fast-food workforces, meanwhile, were dominated by teen-agers.
Mr. Toole says the virus has not only left a generation of children without parents but has also stripped countries of their productive, food-growing workforce.
"We cannot produce affordable food without a workforce that's happy to handpick in the field or orchard," he said.
As The Christian Science Monitor noted in analyzing the fast-food strikes: "While a young workforce and quick turnover have traditionally characterized the fast-food industry, protesters say the Great Recession caused more parents and older workers to rely on fast-food jobs.
There's the French name, the English food, American branding, and multicultural workforce – 106 nationalities, Wareham says.
The economy collapsed, leaving nearly a quarter of the workforce unemployed, and food riots led the government to declare a state of siege.
"We are satisfied that the Home Office has a full understanding of how important access to a competent, flexible and reliable workforce is for food production.
This sustainable scenario combines new cropping systems tuned to farm types with a reorientation of subsidies, an increased workforce and banning food crop production on polluted soils.
Currently, she provides strategic oversight and guidance to the Institute's 28 policy programs and directs programs promoting breakthrough solutions to global development including artisan enterprise, reproductive health, new voices leadership development, health workforce sustainability, and food security.
