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memoirs
This page highlights some autobiographical accounts of
bullying.
It covers -
introduction
Tom Jaine, in a 16 December 2006 Guardian review
of White Slave: The Godfather of Modern Cooking
(London: Orion 2006) by Marco Pierre White & James
Steen, comments that
this
book might better be titled Memoirs of a Bully.
[White’s] kitchen and front-of-house antics earned
him rapid and lasting notoriety; he seems happy to boast
of and justify behaviour that would land most employers
in court or tribunal. We urge the extinction of bullying
in school or workplace while embracing its vicarious
experience in a host of reality shows from Big Brother
to Gordon Ramsay. Equally, we are soggy enough
to allow the whip-hand of exploitation to chefs in their
kitchens as if the ends of fancy cooking ever justified
the means adopted by abusers such as White or the abused-turned-abuser
Ramsay (described here as reduced by MPW to a blubbering
wreck). These braggadocio chefs have it mighty wrong.
Years ago, Lord Nelson showed our hang'em and flog'em
Royal Navy the way of compassion and today there are
many kitchens turning out the best of food where dysfunctional
personalities do not rule.
schooldays
Autobiographical treatments of childhood include -
- Roald
Dahl - Boy
- George
Orwell - Such Such Were The Joys
factory life
Memoirs include -
- George
Orwell - Down & Out in Paris and London
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