Feeding the Hustle - Free Food & Care Inside the Tech Industry

In Feeding the Hustle, Jesse Dart examines how free food programs in the workplace alter the relationship between employer and employee, support a flexible type of workforce, and reveal a commensality that is both exclusionary and inclusionary.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 - On How to do Fieldwork in a Tech Office
Chapter 2 - Getting Started
Chapter 3 - The Path to Free Meals
Chapter 4 - Finance and The Value of Snacks
Chapter 5 - Physical Space
Chapter 6 - Commensality at Work
Chapter 7 - Labor
Chapter 8 - Conclusion and the Limits of Care

About the author

Jesse Dart is assistant research professor at Arizona State University.

Summary

In Feeding the Hustle, Jesse Dart examines how free food programs in the workplace alter the relationship between employer and employee, support a flexible type of workforce, and reveal a commensality that is both exclusionary and inclusionary.

Product details

• Authors: Jesse Dart
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781793635013
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-501-3
• No. of pages: 178
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Information technology industries, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, Food & society, Office & workplace, Social and cultural anthropology, Office and workplace, Cultural studies: food and society