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Headwaters. Fast food women / a film by Anne Lewis.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Employment--Kentucky.
- Women.
- Fast food restaurants--Kentucky--Employees.
- Fast food restaurants.
- Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (28 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Fast food women
- Place of Publication:
- Whitesburg, KY : Appalshop Inc., 1991.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Fast Food Women takes an inside look at the lives of the women who fry chicken, make pizzas, and flip burgers at four different fast food restaurants in Eastern Kentucky. These women, mostly middle-aged and raising children, are often the sole income source for their families. They work for wages barely above the minimum wage, have trouble getting full-time hours because of their employers' scheduling policies, and are without health care and other benefits. Analysis of the way fast food jobs systematically dehumanize and devalue the worker is intercut with comments from human resource managers at the Druther's chain, while scenes of women at work round out this incisive, sometimes troubling look at life on the other side of the counter.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed September 22, 2025).
- OCLC:
- 1544910217
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