Making Fast Food: From the Frying Pan into the Fryer - Softcover

Reiter, Ester

Softcover

ISBN 10: 077350947X ISBN 13: 9780773509474

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992

Synopsis

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. Family life, for example, has changed dramatically in the last 40 years as many activities that were traditionally part of the home have been replaced by services available in the marketplace. This study examines the way the fast food model is being adopted in other areas, such as health, and explores unionization in fast food businesses.

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Review

"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. "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. "Illuminating ... This is a thought-provoking, honest, and painstaking work." Mark Abley, Montreal Gazette. "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.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 077350947X
• ISBN 13: 9780773509474
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224