Making Fast Food: From the Frying Pan Into the Fryer (Revised)

Title: Making Fast Food: From the Frying Pan Into the Fryer (Revised)
Author: Ester Reiter
Business & Personal Finance: 1705035
ISBN: 9780773508439
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1991
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 2nd
Number of Pages: 224
Section: Business & Economics | Industries | Service
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Publisher Description: 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has changed dramatically in the last forty years as many activities that were traditionally part of the home have been replaced by services available in the marketplace.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 have moved from the family kitchen to the highly regulated corporate workplace where workers are like the interchangeable parts of a machine.