Working in Jamie's Kitchen: Salvation, Passion and Young Workers

In the UK in 2002 the high-profile celebrity chef Jamie Oliver set out to transform a group of unemployed young Londoners into enterprising, passionate, workers. This often dramatic process of transformation was captured in the hugely successful Channel 4 TV series Jamie's kitchen.

Peter Kelly and Lyn Harrison use material from this series and from a sister show - Jamie's Kitchen Australia - to examine the struggles by these young people, and those that train and manage them, to develop…