It takes the average reader 3 hours and 37 minutes to read Feeding the City by Sara Roncaglia
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Every day in Mumbai 5,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as "those who carry boxes") distribute a staggering 200,000 home-cooked lunchboxes to the city's workers and students. Giving employment and status to thousands of largely illiterate villagers from Mumbai's hinterland, this co-operative has been in operation since the late nineteenth century. It provides one of the most efficient delivery networks in the world: only one lunch in six million goes astray. Feeding the City is an ethnographic study of the fascinating inner workings of Mumbai's dabbawalas. Cultural anthropologist Sara...
Feeding the City by Sara Roncaglia is 214 pages long, and a total of 54,356 words.
This makes it 72% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Feeding the City aloud.
Feeding the City is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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