Saru Jayaraman | Behind the Kitchen Door: What Every Diner Should Know About the People Who Feed You
Recorded 2/19/2013
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A force for social justice, Saru Jayaraman is the co-founder and co-director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, a New York City-based nonprofit that organizes restaurant workers to win workplace justice campaigns, conduct research and policy work, and launch cooperatively owned restaurants. A graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, she is a professor at Brooklyn and Queens Colleges and New York University, and she is co-editor of The New Urban Immigrant Workforce. Her timely new book, Behind the Kitchen Door is an exploration of the political, economic, and moral implications of dining out.