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

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

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...

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Main Author: Talwar, Jennifer Parker
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Mass. : Westview Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Fast food restaurants > United States > Employees.
Foreign workers > United States.
Immigrants > United States > Economic conditions.
Restaurants-minute > États-Unis > Personnel.
Travailleurs étrangers > États-Unis.
Immigrants > États-Unis > Conditions économiques.
Fast food restaurants > Employees.
Foreign workers.
Immigrants > Economic conditions.
American dream
Einwanderung
Minderheitenfrage
Fastfood.
Restaurants.
Buitenlandse arbeiders.
Acculturatie.
United States.
USA.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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