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...
Main Author: | Speight, Michell |
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Language: | EN |
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The George Washington University
2017
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Online Access: | http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10638062 |
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