Forked, 9780190056001
Paperback
Behind the kitchen door: Where worker rights and food intersect.

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    2 December 2019

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Summary

From Saru Jayaraman, the book that brought #MeToo to the restaurant industry

“Restaurants are political environments. You’re shoulder-to-shoulder with immigrants. You’re at one of the nexuses of income inequality. Your hourly wage is even less than the minimum wage. You’re working for tips. You’re getting sexually harassed. It was a very galvanizing political experience for me.” -Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“No one has done more to move forward the rights of food…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780190056001
ISBN-10:0190056002
Author:Saru Jayaraman, Co-Founder and Co-Director Saru Jayaraman, Jane Fonda
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:2 December 2019
Weight:249g
Dimensions:208mm x 140mm x 18mm
About The Author

Saru Jayaraman

Saru Jayaraman is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United) and a graduate of Yale Law School and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She has been named one of Crain’s “40 Under 40,” CNN’s “Ten Visionary Women,” New York magazine’s “Influential of New York,” and a 2014 White House “Champion of Change.” Her work has been profiled extensively in the New York Times, and she has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Bill Moyers Journal, NBC Nightly News, Today, and Real Time with Bill Maher.

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