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Connexions Library: Food Focus
Website
2009
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Schlosser, Eric
Book
2005
According to Schlosser, fast food has hastened the malling of the American landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialis...
Fast food rights: organising the unorganised
Sherry, Julie
Article
2017
The experience from the examples of organising the unorganised both in the US and UK demonstrate that it is possible to develop union organisation; significant examples are discussed in this article, ...
The Real Cost of a Cheap Burger: Fastfood Workers Go Hungry: Is that the American Dream?
Frank, Thomas
Article
2014
America’s fastfood outlets are not restaurants but food systems serviced by cheap labour in de-skilled jobs — employees so badly paid that they need state aid and charity. They went on strike in North...
The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
Singer, Peter; Mason, Jim
Book
2006
The authors make a case for how people's everyday food choices affect others' lives.

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Fast food
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Fast food (also known as Quick Service Restaurant or QSR within the industry itself) is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly.