Saru Jayaraman
Author of Behind the Kitchen Door
About the Author
Saru Jayaraman is Co-Founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United) and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been named one of Crain's "40 Under 40," CNN's "Ten Visionary Women," New York's "Influential of New York," and show more San Francisco Chronicle's Visionary of Year for 2019. She is a past recipient of the James Beard Leadership Award and was named a 2014 White House Champion of Change. show less
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Works by Saru Jayaraman
Bite Back: People Taking On Corporate Food and Winning (2020) — Editor; Contributor; Introduction — 6 copies
The New Urban Immigrant Workforce: Innovative Models for Labor Organizing (2005) — Editor; Contributor — 3 copies
Associated Works
Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups (Food, Health, and the Environment) (2017) — Foreword — 27 copies
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- Other names
- Jayaraman, Sarumathi
- Birthdate
- 1975-04-03
- Gender
- female
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It's ridiculous that currently, 43 states still use the $2.13/hr minimum wage for tipped employees. My husband moved from South Carolina to Oregon and was amazed they paid him minimum to start with, but also realized that all the nonsense he'd been fed previously of, "Oh, we can't pay you more because food costs will go up" is nonsense. Wage theft and benefits like healthcare coverage are also things that have more weight in a pandemic. My only negatives were in the Subway chapter, Food Babe's 'yoga mat chemical' campaign was portrayed as big corporation putting bad things in food and... ugh, she's a pseudoscience huckster.. That's a bit of a tangent on how employees are taken care of, I think (and if that were going to be covered, Chipotle's claims about GMOs should've been mentioned too but alas). A lot of the high road places are small and local (as it goes), but is the ROC guide really useful outside of a metropolis? I haven't checked.… (more)