Fast Food Nation: What The All-American Meal is Doing to the World (64 page)

Walker, Arden,
161

Wall Street,
24–25

Wall Street Journal
,
155
,
251
,
306
n

Wal-Mart,
3
,
81
,
86
,
233

Walt Disney Company:
children as target market for,
42
;
decline of,
41
;
and Disneyland University,
33
;
and Mc-Donald’s Corporation,
6
,
33–34
,
49
,
50
;
Mickey Mouse Club,
45
;
and propaganda films,
38
.
See also
Disney, Walt
;
Disneyland

Walt Disney Story of Our Friend the Atom
,
40

Walters, Barbara,
105

Warner Brothers,
48

Washington Post,
55

Watershed protection,
135

Watts, Steven,
36

Wayne State University,
98

Welch’s,
36

Welk, Lawrence,
25

Wendy’s: and contaminated meat,
212
,
218
;
and crime,
86
;
and
E. coli
,
212
;
in fast food clusters,
60
;
and flavor additives,
128
;
history of,
23
;
and impulsive buying,
66
;
at top of industry,
27
;
and opposition to minimum wage law,
73
;
and National Hockey League,
48
;
portion sizes,
241

Weseley, Don,
164

West Germany.
See
Germany

Western Printing and Lithography,
40

Western Union,
22
,
34

Western World,
42

Westinghouse Electric,
38

White, Barry,
179

White Castle,
197–98

“White flight,”
64

Wilson, Kevin,
180–81

Wilson, Thomas,
205

Wilson, Woodrow,
137

Wilson meatpacking company,
137

Winfrey, Oprah,
266

Witzel, Michael,
17

Wolf, Henry,
178

Wolke, Brent,
212

Women in workforce,
4

Workers’ compensation,
184–85

Workforce: awards for employees,
88
;
and crime,
83–87
,
154–55
,
162
,
164–66
,
176
,
179–81
,
206
,
292
n,
293
n,
305
n;
de-skilled workforce,
154
;
employee turnover,
72–73
,
83
,
160–61
,
163
,
184
;
and federal subsidies,
72
;
and food safety,
222
;
handicapped in,
70
;
and health insurance,
160
,
162
,
257
;
immigrant workforce,
70–71
,
160–63
;
interchangeability of,
70
;
and knife-sharpening,
173
;
language spoken by,
70–72
,
160
;
managers’ effect on,
82–83
;
migrant industrial workforce,
161–63
;
and public assistance,
185
;
restaurant industry as largest employer,
6
,
65
;
and safety, 8,
84–85
,
172–90
,
206
;
and social status,
78–79
;
statistics on,
72
;
teenagers in,
67–71
,
78–87
;
unskilled,
6
,
9
;
women in,
4
.
See also
Fast food industry
;
Injuries
;
Labor practices
;
Meatpacking industry
;
Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)
;
and specific companies