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Sep 2025
37m 24s

217. Bread and Roses, and Coffee

HELEN ZALTZMAN
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In their heyday of the 1970s and 1980s, there were more than 200 - possibly more than 400 - feminist restaurants and coffee shops in the USA and Canada. These places were aiming to change ways of working, and upend the hierarchies of restaurants; to provide food that was ethically sourced and affordable to customers, while providing staff with a decent wage; ... Show More
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