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Hey, Waitress! : The USA from the Other Side of the Tray Paperback - 2004
by Owings, Alison
- Used
Containing lively, personal portraits of waitresses from all over the nation, this collection is the first of its kind to share such intimate, illuminatingand often shocking behind-the-scenes stories.
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- Title Hey, Waitress! : The USA from the Other Side of the Tray
- Author Owings, Alison
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 334
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
- Date 2004-05-03
- Bookseller's Inventory # 9528083-6
- ISBN 9780520242241 / 0520242246
- Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 8.96 x 6.12 x 0.92 in (22.76 x 15.54 x 2.34 cm)
- Reading level 920
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002003614
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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"Owings is keenly sensitive to the class antagonisms of restaurant service. And bless her sisterhood of overworked, underpaid, harassed and harried informants in their aprons, hairnets, and rubber-soled shoes. This is oral history at its finest."--Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
"Welcome to the real world of table service. Alison Owings delves deeply and perceptively into the too-often out-of-view lifestyle of the female server. Hard working women tell their own stories in their own voices and as anthropology--as oral history--it's a comprehensive and thoroughly enjoyable work that will bring cheer and enlightenment to both those inside and outside the restaurant business."--Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential
"Alison Owings has written a clever, compassionate book to celebrate the unsung and terribly important heroes of the workforce: waitresses. This book contains a rich trove of social history; I guarantee that after reading it you will look at the next waitress who serves you with different eyes. And if you want to get a good reading on how classy or unclassy people are, just watch how they treat their waitress!"--Letitia Baldrige, author of A Lady, First: My Life in the Kennedy White House and the American Embassies of Paris and Rome and Letitia Baldrige's Complete Guide to the New Manners for the 90's