Behind the kitchen door
"How do restaurant workers live on some of the lowest wages in America? And how do poor working conditions-discriminatory labor practices, exploitation, and unsanitary kitchens-affect the meals that arrive at our restaurant tables? Saru Jayaraman, who launched the national restaurant workers' organization Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, sets out to answer these questions by following the lives of restaurant workers in New York City, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Chicago,…
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- Full title :Behind the kitchen door / Saru Jayaraman with foreword by Eric Schlosser.
Summary
"How do restaurant workers live on some of the lowest wages in America? And how do poor working conditions-discriminatory labor practices, exploitation, and unsanitary kitchens-affect the meals that arrive at our restaurant tables? Saru Jayaraman, who launched the national restaurant workers' organization Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, sets out to answer these questions by following the lives of restaurant workers in New York City, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Miami, Detroit, and New Orleans."--Page 4 de la couverture.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):ILR Press
- Place of Publication:Ithaca
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 191 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780801479519, 0801479517, 9780801451720, 0801451728
- oclc:ocn928592591
- LC Classification:HD8039.F72
- Dewey Decimal:331.7/61647950973
Table of Contents
The hands on your plate -- Real sustainability, please -- Serving while sick -- $2.13 : the tipping point -- Race in the kitchen -- Women waiting on equality -- Recipes for change.
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