Making Fast Food: From the Frying Pan into the Fryer

by Ester Reiter

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has changed dramatically in the last forty years as many activities that were traditionally part of the home have been replaced by services available in the marketplace.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.

Genres: Food

224 pages, Hardcover

First published September 3, 1991

Reviews

[Corban Ford · Rating 3 out of 5]

a mostly-informative book on fast food that at times read more like watching a 1970's informercial, but I did learn some fascinating facts, even if the material was just a bit to dry for my test. Let me put it this way, if this book was a Burger, I would eat it if I had to but would ask for a refund if I couldn't.