Making Fast Food From the Frying Pan into the Fryer

Reiter, Ester; Slye, Richard

ISBN 10: 0773508430 / ISBN 13: 9780773508439

Published by Mcgill Queens Univ Pr, 1991

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Red cloth covers, bold gilt titles to the spine. First Edition, Near Fine with light spine end bumping. The DJ is very good++ with light cover scuffing and edgewear. "In Making Fast Food Ester Reiter examines the impact the fast food industry has had on the organization of work and family life." ; B&W Photographs; 0.75 x 9.25 x 6.5 Inches; 211 pages. Seller Inventory # 11950

Bibliographic Details

Title: Making Fast Food From the Frying Pan into ...

Publisher: Mcgill Queens Univ Pr

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

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has changed dramatically in the last forty years as many activities that were traditionally part of the home have been replaced by services available in the marketplace.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.

Review:

"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 working conditions of the fast food labour force." Emily Caston, City Limits, London, England. "Illuminating ... This is a thought-provoking, honest, and painstaking work." Mark Abley, Montreal Gazette. "Unique ... innovative ... enticing ... An extremely important book ... Both the topic and the accessible language make it a winner. So many people have worked or eaten in fast food restaurants. I think this book will interest them." Meg Luxton, Department of Social Science, Atkinson College, York University. "Creative, demanding, and instructive ... It is so rare that scholars undertake this kind of field research ... [Reiter's study] will come to stand as a classic text on qualitative methodologies." Roberta Hamilton, Department of Sociology, Queen's University.