Feeding the Hustle: Free Food & Care Inside the Tech Industry
In Feeding the Hustle, Jesse Dart draws on ethnographic fieldwork to consider the ways in which free food has become ubiquitous and even compulsory within the tech industry. Packed lunches have nearly disappeared as more companies provide free food with the stated objectives of attracting and retaining employees, increasing productivity, and creating a sense of community through commensality. Dart demonstrates how these food programs alter the relationship between employer and employee, support a flexible type of workforce, and reveal a commensality that is both exclusionary and inclusionary.

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Feeding the Hustle: Free Food & Care Inside the Tech Industry
In Feeding the Hustle, Jesse Dart draws on ethnographic fieldwork to consider the ways in which free food has become ubiquitous and even compulsory within the tech industry. Packed lunches have nearly disappeared as more companies provide free food with the stated objectives of attracting and retaining employees, increasing productivity, and creating a sense of community through commensality. Dart demonstrates how these food programs alter the relationship between employer and employee, support a flexible type of workforce, and reveal a commensality that is both exclusionary and inclusionary.

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

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

by Jesse Dart Arizona State University
Feeding the Hustle: Free Food & Care Inside the Tech Industry

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

by Jesse Dart Arizona State University

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In Feeding the Hustle, Jesse Dart draws on ethnographic fieldwork to consider the ways in which free food has become ubiquitous and even compulsory within the tech industry. Packed lunches have nearly disappeared as more companies provide free food with the stated objectives of attracting and retaining employees, increasing productivity, and creating a sense of community through commensality. Dart demonstrates how these food programs 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

ISBN-13: 9781793635013
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 01/14/2022
Pages: 178
Product dimensions: 6.29(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Jesse Dart is assistant research professor at Arizona State University.

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

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