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"Owings is keenly sensitive to the class antagonisms of restaurant service. And bless her sisterhood of overworked, underpaid, harassed and harried informants in their aprons, hairnets, and rubber-soled shoes. This is oral history at its finest."--Susan Brownmiller, author of "Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
"Welcome to the "real world of table service. Alison Owings delves deeply and perceptively into the too-often out-of-view lifestyle of the female server. Hard working women tell their own stories in their own voices and as anthropology--as oral history--it's a comprehensive and thoroughly enjoyable work that will bring cheer and enlightenment to both those inside and outside the restaurant business."--Anthony Bourdain, author of "Kitchen Confidential
"Alison Owings has written a clever, compassionate book to celebrate the unsung and terribly important heroes of the workforce: waitresses. This book contains a rich trove of social history; I guarantee that after reading it you will look at the next waitress who serves you with different eyes. And if you want to get a good reading on how classy or unclassy people are, just watch how they treat their waitress!"--Letitia Baldrige, author of "A Lady, First: My Life in the Kennedy White Houseand the American Embassies of Paris and Rome and "Letitia Baldrige's Complete Guide to the New Manners for the 90's
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. First Edition. Product DescriptionMost of us have sat across the tray from a waitress but how many of us know what really is going on from her side Hey Waitress aims to tell us Containing lively personal portraits of waitresses from many different walks of life this book is the first of its kind to show the intimate illuminating and often shocking behindthescenes stories of waitresses daily shifts and daily livesAlison Owings traveled the countryfrom border to border and coast to coastto hear firsthand what waitresses think about their lives their work and their world Part journalism and part oral history Hey Waitress introduces an eclectic cast of characters a ninetyfiveyearold Baltimore woman who may have been the oldest living waitress a Staten Island firebrand laboring at a Pizza Hut a welltodo runaway housewife a Native American proud of her financial independence a college student loving her diner more than her studies a Cajun grandmother of twentytwo and many othersThe book also offers vivid slices of American history The stories describe the famous sitin at the Woolworths counter in Greensboro North Carolina which helped spark the civil rights movement early struggles for waitress unions and battles against sexually discriminatory hiring in restaurantsA superb and accessible means of breaking down stereotypes this book reveals American waitresses in all their complexity and individuality and will surely change the way we order tip and most of all behave in restaurantsReviewSome might call Hey Waitress a tribute but its much better than an earnest celebration of the downtrodden working class For the most part Owings is confident enough in her subjects to trust that beyond working their asses off they have something insightful to say about the behavior of ordinary Americans Thus while some of Owings more famous subjects offer a fresh perspective on historywho doesnt want a front row seat at Woolworths during the famous North Carolina sitintheir stories end up being less eyeopening than the goings on at an ordinary greasy spoonSaloncom 1014From the Inside FlapAlison Owings serves up a delightful chronicle of waitressingfrom the first commercial eating establishments to a contemporary Pizza Hutas seen through the eyes of its stalwart practitioners Hey Waitress is a great pleasure to read not least because its a long overdue tribute to some of Americas most tireless and least appreciated working womenBarbara Ehrenreich author of Nickel and Dimed On Not Getting By in AmericaOwings is keenly sensitive to the class antagonisms of restaurant service And bless her sisterhood of overworked underpaid harassed and harried informants in their aprons hairnets and rubbersoled shoes This is oral history at its finestSusan Brownmiller author of Against Our Will Men Women and RapeWelcome to the real world of table service Alison Owings delves deeply and perceptively into the toooften outofview lifestyle of the female server Hard working women tell their own stories in their own voices and as anthropologyas oral historyits a comprehensive and thoroughly enjoyable work that will bring cheer and enlightenment to both those inside and outside the restaurant businessAnthony Bourdain author of Kitchen ConfidentialAlison Owings has written a clever compassionate book to celebrate the unsung and terribly important heroes of the workforce waitresses This book contains a rich trove of social history I guarantee that after reading it you will look at the next waitress who serves you with different eyes And if you want to get a good reading on how classy or unclassy people are just watch how they treat their waitressLetitia Baldrige author of A Lady First My Life in the Kennedy White House and the American Embassies of Paris and Rome and Letitia Baldriges Complete Guide to the New Manners for the 90. Seller Inventory # DADAX0520242246
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