From Farm to Fork by Sarah Morath

Author:Sarah Morath
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Akron Press

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The Workers Who Feed Us

Poverty and Food Insecurity among

U.S. Restaurant and Retail Workers

Saru Jayaraman, University of California, Berkeley

Most Americans experience the food system as consumers—eating out at a local restaurant or shopping at their neighborhood grocery store. Besides being the only two consumer-facing segments of the food chain, the restaurant and food retail industries are also two of the largest and fastest-growing segments of the food system. As Figure 1 demonstrates, they are also the only two segments of the food system to exhibit faster growth than the economy overall.1

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