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Making Fast Food
Ester Reiter
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Description for Making Fast Food
Paperback. The author worked full-time at a Burger King outlet for ten months gathering information for this study. This text analyzes the profound effect the fast food industry has had on women's work, youth employment, the labour movement, the family and the community. Num Pages: 224 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; KNDF; KNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 329.
The flourishing fast food industry represents one particular blueprint of how to live. Reiter analyses the profound consequences of this blueprint for many spheres of life: women's work, youth employment, the labour movement, the family, and the community. Since the 1970s young people and women have increasingly entered the job market in low waged, service-sector jobs. Family life, she explains, has changed dramatically in the last forty years as many activities that were traditionally part of the home have been replaced by services available in the marketplace. The production of meals and those who produce them ... Read more
The flourishing fast food industry represents one particular blueprint of how to live. Reiter analyses the profound consequences of this blueprint for many spheres of life: women's work, youth employment, the labour movement, the family, and the community. Since the 1970s young people and women have increasingly entered the job market in low waged, service-sector jobs. Family life, she explains, has changed dramatically in the last forty years as many activities that were traditionally part of the home have been replaced by services available in the marketplace. The production of meals and those who produce them ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773513877
SKU
V9780773513877
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for Making Fast Food
"A fascinating and highly readable study of the fast-food phenomenon that has become a symbol of life in contemporary society." Diane Schoemperlen, Books in Canada. "Making Fast Food is a long overdue book designed to uncover the brutal truths about the have-a-nice-day industry of burgers and French fries ... Reiter masterfully documents, analyses and attacks the low pay and appalling ... Read more