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Fast food, fast track : immigrants, big business, and the American dream

著者: Jennifer Parker Talwar
出版商: Cambridge Mass. : Westview Press, 2002.
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Takes readers into New York's diverse immigrant neighborhoods to show how the corporate fast-food industry adapts its business to fit each neighborhood's unique cultural needs & desires. Hailing from China, the Caribbean, Latin America, and India, a colorful sea of faces has taken its place behind one of the most ubiquitous American business institutions -- the fast-food counter. They have become a vital link  再读一些...
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Talwar, Jennifer Parker.
Fast food, fast track.
Cambridge Mass. : Westview Press, 2002
(OCoLC)654414082
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所有的著者/提供者: Jennifer Parker Talwar
ISBN: 0813398282 9780813398280
OCLC号码: 49249722
描述: viii, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
内容: 1. Searching for the American Dream --
2. It's in the Neighborhood: Race, Place, and the Importance of Culture --
3. Word of Mouth and Getting Your Foot in the Door: Qualifications, Recruitment, and the Path to a Fast Food Job --
4. Day Off, Nothing! The Work's Got to Be Done: Flexibility and Work Time --
5. Pop-o-matic Grills and Redefining Skill: Technologies and Divisions of Labor --
6. It's Hard to Get These Kids to Smile: Managing thc Fast Food Personality --
7. Problems on the United Nations Team: Ethnic Conflicts and Interactions --
8. Up the Ladder or Down: A Question of Mobility --
9. Flipping Burgers in a Melting Pot? Looking Ahead to a More Multicultural Society.
责任: Jennifer Parker Talwar.
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Takes readers into New York's diverse immigrant neighborhoods to show how the corporate fast-food industry adapts its business to fit each neighborhood's unique cultural needs & desires. Hailing from China, the Caribbean, Latin America, and India, a colorful sea of faces has taken its place behind one of the most ubiquitous American business institutions -- the fast-food counter. They have become a vital link between the growing service sector in our cities' ethnic enclaves and the multi-billion-dollar global fast-food industry. For four years, sociologist Jennifer Parker Talwar went behind the counter herself and listened to immigrant fast-food workers in New York City's ethnic communities. They talked about balancing their low-paying jobs and monotonous daily reality with keeping the faith that these very jobs could be the first step on the path to the American Dream. In this original and compelling work of ethnography, Talwar shows that contrary to those arguing that the fast-food industry only represents an increasing homogenization of the American workforce, fast-food chains in immigrant communities must and do adapt to their surroundings. Rather than focusing on how ethnic communities become relatively sealed off from the larger economy, Talwar explores the interplay between globalizing mainstream forces like fast-food chains and the immigrant communities of our largest and most diverse cities.

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