Abolish Restaurants: A Worker's Critique of the Food Service Industry (PM Pamphlet)

Summary:An illustrated guide to the daily misery, stress, boredom, and alienation of restaurant work, as well as the ways in which restaurant workers fight against it. Drawing on a range of anticapitalist ideas as well as a heaping plate of personal experience, it is part analysis and part call-to-arms Content: Cover Copyright Contents FOREWORD HOW A RESTAURANT IS SET UP WHAT IS A RESTAURANT? THE PRODUCTION PROCESS DIVISION OF LABOR AND THE USE OF MACHINES INTENSITY AND STRESS TIPS CUSTOMERS COERCION AND COMPETITION HOW A RESTAURANT IS TAKEN APART WHAT THE WORKER WANTS WORK GROUPS WORKERS, MANAGEMENT AND WORKER-MANAGEMENT UNIONS A WORLD WITHOUT RESTAURANTS About PM Press. Annotation An illustrated guide to the daily misery, stress, boredom, and alienation of restaurant work, as well as the ways in which restaurant workers fight against it. Drawing on a range of anticapitalist ideas as well as a heaping plate of personal experience, it is part analysis and part call-to-arms. A 60-page illustrated guide to the daily misery, stress, boredom, and alienation of restaurant work, as well as the ways restaurant workers fight against it. Drawing on a range of anticapitalist ideas as well as a heaping plate of personal experience, it is part analysis and part call-to-arms.