Through the Golden Arches

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010

Katherine Newman, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and author, Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market (Russell Sage Foundation/Harvard University Press, 2006)
- follows up on her 1993 interviews with applicants for jobs at a fast food restaurant in Harlem

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