Feeding America
Immigrants in the Restaurant Industry and Throughout the Food System Take Action for Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4188916 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Saru Jayaraman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 347-358 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-783X • E-ISSN: 1944-768X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sor.2014.0019 |
| OpenAlex | W1562290611 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The restaurant industry is one of the largest and fastest growing segments of the US economy. At the same time, it is also one of the lowest-quality employers in terms of wages and benefits in the United States, which disproportionately affect immigrants and people of color. This is in part due to policy passed in Congress lobbied for by the National Restaurant Association, which primarily represents the nation’s Fortune 500 restaurant corporations. To address the needs of restaurant workers, the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United developed a multi-pronged strategy involving multiple stakeholder groups within the industry: workers, employers, and consumers
Action (physics) · Advertising · Affect (linguistics) · Business · Food industry · Immigration · Political science · Public relations · Quality (philosophy) · Stakeholder · Marketing · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Organic Food and Agriculture · Wine Industry and Tourism
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |