1st Edition

Ending Slavery in the Corporate Supply Chain Storytelling, Leadership, and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers

By Richard Herder Copyright 2025
188 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is a Florida-based farmworkers’ cooperative that has received international acclaim for sponsoring anti-slavery investigations. In 2011, they worked with commercial tomato growers to found the Fair Food Program, a private sector agreement that operates according to the principles of worker-driven social responsibility (WSR). Researchers have lauded WSR as... Read more

Introduction: Understanding the Work of the CIW

Chapter 1: A History of the CIW: From “Ground Zero for Modern Slavery” to a Model for the World

Chapter 2: Ensemble Storytelling and the CIW

Chapter 3: Ethical Supply Chains: The Scandalous Failures of CSR and the Promise of WSR

Chapter 4: Ensemble Storytelling in the Campaign for Fair Food

Chapter 5: Worker-Driven Social Responsibility and the Future of Global Supply Chains

Biography

Richard Herder is a professor emeritx of Communication Studies at Southwest Minnesota State University. He has published work in the areas of immigration rhetoric, First Amendment studies, corporate protest rhetoric, and the work of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. He first learned about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers while working as a high school Language Arts teacher in Southwest Florida.