Fast-Food Job
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A Fast-Food Job is a restaurant job that requires fast-food tasks.
- Context:
- It can (typically) be at a fast food restaurant.
- It can (typically) be Low-Skill Service Job.
- It can be performed by a Fast Food Worker or a Fast Food Robot.
- It has been a growing Job Segment since 1990. http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/img/posts/Screen%20Shot%202013-08-29%20at%2011.14.14%20AM.png
- Counter-Example(s):
- a Retail Job.
- a Manufacturing Job.
- a Slow Food Job.
- See: Retail Job.
References
2013
- Tiffany Hsu and Alana Semuels. (2013-08-29). “Fast-food workers across U.S. rally for $15 hourly pay.” In: LA Times, August 29, 2013, 5:11 p.m.
- QUOTE: Teenagers used to dominate fast-food jobs. Now, many older workers, out of a job because of the stagnant economy, have gravitated toward the industry. They're ripe for organizing because they've seen the economy improve around them while their pay has remained the same and they continue to work without benefits. … But Arne L. Kalleberg, a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the median age for fast-food workers is more than 28; for women it's 32. And low-wage jobs are among the fastest-growing in the country, he said. “These protests are a cry for help," he said. “It's a microcosm of a larger phenomenon. It reflects the growing frustration of these folks who have for a long time seen the gap between what they're earning and the tons of money the corporations and the CEOs are making."