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"Brown’s ambitious and illuminating We Are Each Other’s Business digs deep into the history of the welfare, women’s, and consumer rights movements, demonstrating how poor Black women negotiated their status as citizens and consumers to create lasting social change in Chicago and beyond. The lessons she draws from the work of Temporary Woodlawn Organization, Jobs or Income Now, and the National Welfare Rights Organization are just as urgent today. -- Virginia Eubanks, author of <i>Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor</i> We Are Each Other’s Business recasts the struggle between Black women and the state during the Chicago Welfare Rights Movement as a ""battle of technologies."" It reveals how these women skillfully used consumerism as activism to challenge deep-seated state injustices against poor women, presenting an engaging narrative of resilience and resistance. -- Traci Parker, author of <i>Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights</i>"

Brown’s ambitious and illuminating We Are Each Other’s Business digs deep into the history of the Welfare, Women’s, and Consumer Rights movements, demonstrating how poor Black women negotiated their status as citizens and consumers to create lasting social change in Chicago and beyond. The lessons she draws from the work of Temporary Woodlawn Organization, Jobs or Income Now, and the National Welfare Rights Organization are just as urgent today. -- Virginia Eubanks, author of <i>Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor</i>

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Nicole M. Brown is an associate professor of sociology at Saint Mary’s College of California.

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