{"id":14543,"date":"2020-11-17T10:38:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T15:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=14543"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:45:06","slug":"taylor-maudlin","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/people\/taylor-maudlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Maudlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thesis title:<\/strong> &#8220;<em>Serving Consumer Expectations: Women Servers\u2019 Interpretations of Job Requirements<\/em><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Longing for Homes Where Mangroves Used to Grow: Narratives of IDPs in Southern Philippines&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:961,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;9&quot;:1,&quot;10&quot;:1,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0}\">&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: The food service industry remains relatively understudied, especially in the Canadian context. However, many avenues of research exist on the labour performed by workers in this sector. In focusing on servers who rely on tips to supplement their income, this thesis explores how specific traits are commodified under management supervision to maximize corporate gain and consumer satisfaction. Utilizing aesthetic labour theory and feminist political economy with an intersectional lens, I argue that employers rely on attributes such as appearance and personality to sell the restaurant experience through the assignment of job requirements and duties. In doing so, servers become part of the product being sold. This has gendered and racialized implications. This thesis uses in-depth interviews to prioritize women servers&#8217; experiences negotiating their assigned job requirements and their observations of the gendered and racialized divisions in the food service industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Supervisor:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/people\/megan-rivers-moore\/\">Megan Rivers-Moore<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My main <span data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">research<\/span> interest is the intersection of sexism and racism and their roles in precarity in the food-service industry, but I am also interested in the role of consumerism in maintaining capitalism in the Americas, as well as the use of social media as a method of organizing political movements. What I like about the program is how inclusive it is. Everyone I have met in the department\/program has been warm and welcoming, and I have found a great community with my cohort. 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