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Saru Jayaraman

Saru Jayaraman
Saru Jayaraman is the co-founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Behind the Kitchen Door, Forked: A New Standard for American Dining, and One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America (The New Press).


What Created the American Crisis of Subminimum Pay?

Saru Jayaraman on the System's Roots in Slavery
November 5, 2021  By Saru Jayaraman
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