Fast Food, Fast Track? Immigrants, Big Business, and the American Dream
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: February 5, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780813398280
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Globalization; Hotel & catering trades; Immigration & emigration; Urban communities; Work & labour; United States; Industries - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism; Emigration & Immigration; Economic Conditions Of Labor; Hotel And Restaurant Management; Minority Studies - Ethnic American; Business & Economics; Archaeology / Anthropology; Immigrants; Sociology; New York; USA; Employees; Public Affairs & Administration; Labor; Alien labor; Fast food restaurants
First sentence: Tina, who is from Shanghai, never expected to work in a fast food restaurant when she arrived in the United States at the age of twenty-four.
Description: "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. In this original 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 exposes the interplay between globalizing mainstream forces like fast-food chains and the immigrant communities of our largest and most diverse cities."--BOOK JACKET.