Who Made the Hoodie You Wore Yesterday and the School Lunch You Ate Today?

Who Made the Hoodie You Wore Yesterday and the School Lunch You Ate Today? is the seventh installment in the If You Listen Closely series, offering a broad look at the labor woven into children's everyday lives—from care work to platform work. Every day, children encounter working adults both directly and indirectly. The closest workers in a child's life are their immediate family members. At school, homeroom teachers, security guards, cafeteria cooks, nutritionists, and cleaning staff all labor to protect children's right to an education. In this way, workers are intimately connected to children's daily lives.
Author Miran An, who has consistently explored social issues through children's fiction—including human rights, respect for life, and multicultural and migrant labor—unfolds the world of care workers, platform workers, child laborers, and an older generation whose bodies bear the history of labor, all seen through the eyes of two children, Hansol and Dasol. Her signature warmth and humor shine throughout. Beginning with a cafeteria workers' strike at an elementary school, the book vividly captures stories of the work, jobs, lives, and labor that sustain children's everyday world.