Making Fast Food

Download or read book Making Fast Food written by Ester Reiter and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1991-09-03 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The flourishing fast food industry represents one particular blueprint of how to live. Reiter analyses the profound consequences of this blueprint for many spheres of life: women's work, youth employment, the labour movement, the family, and the community. Since the 1970s young people and women have increasingly entered the job market in low waged, service-sector jobs. Family life, she explains, has changed dramatically in the last forty years as many activities that were traditionally part of the home have been replaced by services available in the marketplace. The production of meals and those who produce them have moved from the family kitchen to the highly regulated corporate workplace where workers are like the interchangeable parts of a machine.