Fast Food, Fast Track: Immigrants, Big Business, and the American Dream

by Jennifer Parker Talwa and Jennifer Parker Talwar

Book Overview

Praise for Fast Food, Fast Track "A fine ethnography with both theoretical and advocative significance, representing the best qualitative sociology." -- Choice "Explores the intimate realities and behind-the-scenes exchanges of a multiethnic work force serving the typical American meal. Through a lively narrative and insightful stories, Jennifer Parker Talwar gives a full sense of what it's like to live in both a global economy and a local culture."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813341558
• ISBN13: 9780813341552
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Very informative

This is a picture of America that you don't get elsewhere! She worked inside fast food restaurants to research this book, and I think she has done a stellar job here. Any American could learn a lot from reading this fine, fine book.

Readable and Comprehensive

Clearly the result of exhaustive research, this book takes traditionally very dry material and presents a highly readable text that identifies fascinating perspectives on the American Dream. Recommended without reservation.

Recommended

A very readable book while addressing important contemporary issues related to immigration and the consumer economy. Highly recommended.