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Fast Food, Fast Track: Immigrants, Big Business, and the American Dream » Read Now
by Jennifer Parker Talwar. 223 pgs.

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Sociologist Jennifer Parker Talwar went behind the counter and listened to immigrant fast-food workers in New York City's ethnic communities. She argues that fast-food chains in immigrant communities must and do adapt to their surroundings.
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Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia » Read Now
by James L. Watson. 262 pgs.

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McDonald's restaurants are found in over 100 countries, serving tens of millions of people each day. What are the cultural implications of this phenomenal success? Does the introduction of American fast food undermine local cuisines, many of them celebrated for centuries? Does it, as some critics...
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McDonald's restaurants are found in over 100 countries, serving tens of millions of people each day. What are the cultural implications of this phenomenal success? Does the introduction of American fast food undermine local cuisines, many of them celebrated for centuries? Does it, as some critics fear, presage a homogeneous, global culture? These are but a few of the questions confronted in this engaging study that vividly demonstrates how the theories and techniques of anthropology can be used not only to examine obscure peoples and exotic practices, but to shed light on the motivations and behavior of people conducting their daily lives in some of the major population centers of the world.
Earlier studies of the fast food industry have emphasized production, focusing on labor or management. This book takes a fresh approach to the industry by concentrating on the perspective of the consumer. It analyzes consumers' reactions to McDonald's in five East Asian cities: Hong Kong, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul, and Tokyo. What do they have to say about McDonald's? How is fast food perceived by those who pay to eat it? How do their preferences and biases affect the system of production?
The book argues that McDonald's has largely become divorced from its American roots and become a "local" institution for an entire generation of affluent consumers in Hong Kong, Taipei, and Tokyo. In Beijing, the process of localization has barely begun, with consumers more interested in the experience of eating at McDonald's than in the food itself. In Seoul, many nationalists treat the Big Mac as a symbol of Yankee imperialism; meanwhile, increasing numbers of Korean children are celebrating their birthdays atMcDonald's.
Localization is not, however, a one-way process; the corporation has also had to adapt in order to flourish in new settings. The book demonstrates how consumers, with the cooperation and encouragement of McDona
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McDonaldization Revisited: Critical Essays on Consumer Culture » Read Now
by Mark Alfino, John S. Caputo, Robin Wynyard. 201 pgs.

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An international, multidisciplinary group of scholars examines the thesis of George Ritzer's popular book The MacDonaldization of Society. The essays analyze the premise of "McDonaldization," provide richer theoretical discussions of the relationship between Ritzer's analysis and semiotics, critical...
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An international, multidisciplinary group of scholars examines the thesis of George Ritzer's popular book The MacDonaldization of Society. The essays analyze the premise of "McDonaldization," provide richer theoretical discussions of the relationship between Ritzer's analysis and semiotics, critical theory, feminism, and postmodernism, and extend the thesis to other areas of consumer culture.
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Occupational Wages in the Fast-Food Restaurant Industry, in Monthly Labor Review » Read Now
by Robert W. Van Giezen. 7 pgs.

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...for entry-level workers in the fast-food industry rose to $5.08 in New Jersey...average starting wage in the fast-food industry dropped to $4.62, but fewer...Effect of the...
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Ownership, Agency, and Wages: An Examination of Franchising in the Fast Food Industry, in Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics » Read Now
by Alan B. Krueger. 27 pgs.

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...examination of franchising in the fast food industry. by Alan B. Krueger...examines the labor market in the fast food industry to estimate the effect of...
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Eating out in Europe: Picnics, Gourmet Dining, and Snacks since the Late Eighteenth Century (Chap.18 "Eating without Effort: the Rise of the Fast-Food Industry in Twentieth-Century Britain") » Read Now
by Marc Jacobs, Peter Scholliers. 411 pgs.

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Europeans are eating out in unprecedented numbers - in cafs, pubs, brasseries and restaurants. Globalization brought about changes in patterns of leisure and consumption, as well as a democratization of restaurant culture. But what if we open up this concept of 'eating out' to include any eating...
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Europeans are eating out in unprecedented numbers - in cafs, pubs, brasseries and restaurants. Globalization brought about changes in patterns of leisure and consumption, as well as a democratization of restaurant culture. But what if we open up this concept of 'eating out' to include any eating that takes place outside the home? What cultural shifts can we see through time? What differences can we discover about pre-industrial, industrial and post-industrial societies?Eating Out in Europe addresses such questions as it examines changes in eating patterns through time. 'Eating out' is broadly conceived to cover everything from nibbling a pizza at work to dining in an exquisite restaurant, from suffering an institutional lunch at the school cafeteria to enjoying the natural world with a picnic. The meaning of eating out clearly varies enormously depending on the setting, circumstances and significance of the meal. The contributors describe and interpret the huge changes that occurred in eating habits throughout Europe by analyzing such factors as urbanization, technological innovation, demographic growth, employment patterns and identity formation. Case studies include the evolution of the pub, the rise of the fast food industry in Britain, picnicking in nineteenth-century France, snack culture in the Netherlands, industrial canteens in Germany, the rise of restaurants in Norway and countryside traditions in Hungary, among others. Fully comprehensive and illustrated, the contributors draw on examples throughout Europe from the late eighteenth century to the present day.
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Fast Food and Intergenerational Commensality in Japan: New Styles and Old Patterns, in Ethnology » Read Now
by John W. Traphagan, L. Keith Brown. 16 pgs.

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...Fast food and intergenerational commensality in Japan...introduction of McDonalds and indigenous fast-food restaurants reflects changes in the Japanese...evident in some of...
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You Want Profits with That?, in The McKinsey Quarterly » Read Now
by John D. Calkins, Jevin S. Eagle, Michael J. Farello, Michelle B. Horn, Mark A. Loch. 10 pgs.

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...of the quick-service food industry need not be gloomy...of franchising, the food service industry is less concentrated...flexibility. Given the industrys razor-thin...
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Media Advocacy: A Case Study of Philip Sokolof's Cholesterol Awareness Campaigns, in Journal of Consumer Affairs » Read Now
by Ronald J. Adams, Kenneth M. Jennings. 21 pgs.

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...McDonalds and the fast food industry. An Advertising...products and menus of fast food chains; and...changes in the food industry places Sokolofs...symbolically...
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Economic Perspectives on Childhood Obesity, in Economic Perspectives » Read Now
by Patricia M. Anderson, Kristin F. Butcher, Phillip B. Levine. 19 pgs.

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...television could be driving the trend. Fast food consumption is the other leading...As Ebbeling et al. (2002) note, fast food typically includes all of the things...They...
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Students Who Work, in Adolescence » Read Now
by Gordon Ruscoe, Jack C. Morgan, Cynthia Peebles. 8 pgs.

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...working students usually hold jobs in fast food establishments, spend most of their...opinion, only 43% reported working in fast food establishments and other...
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Satisfying America's Changing Appetite, in The McKinsey Quarterly » Read Now
by Michael Farello, Robbin Mitchell, Kari Alldredge. 8 pgs.

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...Limited menu fast food operators and...convenience and the industrys shortest wait...seven different industry breakthroughs...limited menu fast food chains by...
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Labour Relations in the Global Fast Food Industry » Read Now
by Tony Royle, Brian Towers. 224 pgs.

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This book surveys an analyzes industrial and employee relations practices, focusing on the global fast-food industry, and examines the extent to which multinational enterprises impose or adapt their employment practices upon national and supranational systems.
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Markets and Moralities: Ethnographies of Postsocialism (Chap. 8 "Manufacturing the New Consumerism: Fast-Food Restaurants in Postsocialist Hungary") » Read Now
by Ruth Mandel, Caroline Humphrey. 240 pgs.

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Before the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, private marketeering was regarded not only as criminal, but even immoral by socialist regimes. Ten years after taking on board western market-orientated shock therapy, post-socialist societies are still struggling to come to terms with the clash between these...
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Before the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, private marketeering was regarded not only as criminal, but even immoral by socialist regimes. Ten years after taking on board western market-orientated shock therapy, post-socialist societies are still struggling to come to terms with the clash between these deeply engrained moralities and the daily pressures to sell and consume.This book explores the new market and its resulting contradictions in a rapidly developing Eastern Europe and Russia. Will Western fast-food industries irrevocably alter local culinary practices? What effect has the privatization of land had upon ownership and exchange? What role do new commodities play within the household? Based on original, first-hand ethnography, this book is a long-awaited addition to existing literature on post-socialist societies. It will be essential reading for students of anthropology, sociology, European and cultural studies, as well as professional groups working in Eastern Europe and Russia, including NGOs, development organizations and businesses.
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