The politics of work and hunger.

On work, hunger and the starvation of the welfare state.

Anthropologist Maggie Dickinson examines the intersections of hunger, work and the collapsing US welfare state - as the government pushes work requirements for social programs, food assistance subsidizes low-wage jobs, empowers the profits of capital over the lives of workers, and entrenches deep poverty across society.

Maggie is author of Feeding the Crisis: Care and Abandonment in America's Food Safety Net from University of California Press.