Why People Work as Hard as They Do| The Role of Work Ethic as a Legitimizing Myth in the Work Lives of New York City's Fast Food Workers

<p> Intimately interwoven in American culture is the unquestioned notion of paid labor as a personally gratifying moral and civic responsibility. Yet, of the 46 million Americans living in poverty in 2010, 23% held jobs (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2012). The U.S. fast food industry emplo...

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Main Author: Speight, Michell
Language:EN
Published: The George Washington University 2017
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