For today’s episode, we present Carousel’s interview with Marcia Chatelain about her new book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, which chronicles the relationship between fast food and civil rights history. Marcia Chatelain is an associate professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of South Side Girls: […]
Wisconsin “Franchise Protection” Law Shields Corporations ...
(WORT)–When your neighborhood McDonald’s violates labor law, can the parent corporation be held responsible? When workers demand better working conditions at a Taco Bell, can the store manager make that call without consulting “corporate” first? At the heart of questions like these is the contested nature of the franchisee-franchisor relationship. Last August, the National Labor […]
