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  1. Fast food, fast track
    immigrants, big business, and the American dream
    Author: Talwar, Jennifer Parker
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Westview Press, Boulder, Colo. [u.a.]

    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... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    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 place behind one of the most ubiquitous American business institutions -- the fast-food counter. They have become a vital link between the growing service sector in our cities' ethnic enclaves and the multi-billion-dollar global fast-food industry. 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. They talked about balancing their low-paying jobs and monotonous daily reality with keeping the faith that these very jobs could be the first step on the path to the American Dream. In this original and compelling 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 explores the interplay between globalizing mainstream forces like fast-food chains and the immigrant communities of our largest and most diverse cities.

     
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  2. Fast food, fast track
    immigrants, big business, and the American dream
    Author: Talwar, Jennifer Parker
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Westview Pr., Boulder, Colo. [u.a.]

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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0813398282
    RVK Categories: LC 17610
    Subjects: Fast food restaurants; Alien labor
    Scope: VIII, 230 S. : graph. Darst.
  3. Fast food, fast track
    immigrants, big business, and the American dream
    Author: Talwar, Jennifer Parker
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Westview Pr., Boulder, Colo. [u.a.]

    Location:
    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0813398282
    RVK Categories: LC 17610
    Subjects: Fast food restaurants; Alien labor; Minderheitenfrage; Einwanderung; American dream
    Scope: VIII, 230 S., graph. Darst.
  4. Fast food, fast track
    immigrants, big business, and the American dream
    Author: Talwar, Jennifer Parker
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Westview Press, Boulder, Colo. [u.a.]

    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... more

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    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 place behind one of the most ubiquitous American business institutions -- the fast-food counter. They have become a vital link between the growing service sector in our cities' ethnic enclaves and the multi-billion-dollar global fast-food industry. 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. They talked about balancing their low-paying jobs and monotonous daily reality with keeping the faith that these very jobs could be the first step on the path to the American Dream. In this original and compelling 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 explores the interplay between globalizing mainstream forces like fast-food chains and the immigrant communities of our largest and most diverse cities.

     
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  5. Fast food, fast track
    immigrants, big business, and the American dream
    Author: Talwar, Jennifer Parker
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Westview Press, Boulder, Colo. [u.a.]

    Location:
    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
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    B 326131
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0813398282
    RVK Categories: MS 3600
    Subjects: Arbeitsmigranten; Schnellgastronomie; Ethnische Gruppe; Industriesoziologie; Soziale Lage; USA; Migranten; Fast food restaurants; Foreign workers; Immigrants
    Scope: VIII, 230 S, Ill. Kt
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index