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Hey Waitress!: The USA from the Other Side of the Tray. Alison Owings. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Alison Owings's fine book is based on a series of interviews with waitresses from all over the United States. This book reads like a hybrid of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed (2002), an expose of the life of the working poor, and This Day: Diaries from American Women (2003) by Joni B. Cole, Rebecca Joffrey, and B. K. Rakhra. What it has in common with Ehrenreich's book is the...
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