Fast Food Jobs. National Study of Fast Food Employment.

Autor/inn/en	Charner, Ivan; Fraser, Bryna Shore
Institution	National Inst. for Work and Learning, Washington, DC.
Titel	Fast Food Jobs. National Study of Fast Food Employment.
Quelle	(1984), (150 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Education Work Relationship; Educational Attainment; Employee Attitudes; Employment Experience; Employment Patterns; Employment Potential; Employment Practices; Employment Qualifications; Food Service; Job Performance; Job Training; Labor Market; National Surveys; Occupational Mobility; Salary Wage Differentials; Student Educational Objectives; Transfer of Training; Work Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Occupational experience; Job experience; Work experience; Berufserfahrung; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Berufspraxis; Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Work performance; Arbeitsleistung; Berufsqualifizierender Bildungsgang; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Berufliche Mobilität; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung
Abstract	A study examined employment in the fast-food industry. The national survey collected data from employees at 279 fast-food restaurants from seven companies. Female employees outnumbered males by two to one. The ages of those fast-food employees in the survey sample ranged from 14 to 71, with fully 70 percent being in the 16- to 20-year-old age range. The sample had a higher percentage of Blacks than the 1980 census (16 versus 12 percent) and a lower percentage of whites (77 versus 83 percent) and Hispanics (5 versus 6 percent). For the vast majority of fast-food employees, there is no link between job and schooling. Despite employees' strong interest in being promoted to management-level jobs (especially among minority workers), most restaurants recruited their management trainees from outside the restaurant. As might be expected, the issue of "overworked and underpaid" was a clear concern among employees. On the positive side, employment in the fast-food industry did appear to offer an opportunity to develop a number of transferable, job-related skills. Employment in the fast-food industry appeared to have little effect on performance in school or the highest grade completed. (Appendixes to this report include the hourly employee questionnaire and selected anecdotes from the survey.) (MN)
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC