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Hey Waitress!: The USA from the Other Side of the Tray.(Book Review)

Publication: Journal of Popular Culture

Publication Date: 01-FEB-05

Author: Wiley, Margaret
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COPYRIGHT 2005 Blackwell Publishers Ltd.

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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