Fast Food : An Opportunity For Minors

In "Working at McDonald's," Amitai Etzioni argues that early employment starting from high school may become advantageous for those teenagers in near future. Instead, the writer is inclined to believe that such job opportunities may prevent a teenager from studying, developing and improving, thus, granting them skills that they might not need at a well-paid job, if they had a chance to get one.

The author of this particular article, Working at McDonalds, Amitai Etzioni is a sociology professor at the institute of George Washington University and the founder of the non-profit organization known as Communitarian Netwroks. In this essay he narrates his strong belief that working at any fast food chain restaurants is detrimental towards a students future. He validates his reasons that student do not benefit any long-term skills as taught in these restaurants. He beliefs that these jobs take away time from school and/or after school activities such as sports, clubs, etc. This skews a students perspective of the importance of a high-quality education that leads them towards their dreams and goals of a career in the major they perceive to

Amitai Etzioni, Dr. of Sociology at University of California at Berkeley, argues that it is bad for kids to work at fast food chains like McDonald’s. He applies his criteria to evaluate the value of jobs in the fast food industry. He states that all though these employers provide a large number of jobs that teenagers can fill, they do not provide high educational jobs that can lead to a bright future. Often they are repetitive in nature and often in unsupervised by adults. These jobs are comprised of highly routine, mechanized movements that require little individual initiative (250). The resemble the movements that were immortalize by Charlie Chaplin in the film “Modern Times” where the worker movement are so mechanized that he eventually is engulfed by the modern machinery and become part of the machine (Chaplin Modern Times). Although, Etzioni’s criticism presented some logical concerns, teenagers working at McDonald undoubtedly provide critical stage of early life lessons about the society they are getting prepared to become a member.

Many teens work to help their family. For example, teens such as Eddie work to help their parents even though they do not get paid for what he has earned. “Eddie Ramirez, 16, recalls summers when he worked in the tobacco fields. Contractors often take advantage of young workers, he says, recounting times when he wasn't paid what he earned. Yet for four years, he kept going back to help his mother pay the rent” (Potenza 1). They work in many dangerous places just to get some money to help their families out. “Although families may rely on this

Someone working at a fast-food restaurant is bound to face torment either by their peers, and have the social stain of being viewed as poor or dirty. In a personal interview with another fast food worker, Whitney said, “…a lot of them [fast food workers] do tend to have that lower class background. Also, whenever you find adults working in the fast food industry, it generally means they lack an education.” A lot of younger adolescents will take jobs at fast food restaurants because very few places will hire kids when they first get their legal working papers, but fast food restaurants tend to flood their restaurant with these juvenile employees.

Amitai Etzioni asserts the idea that students who work at McDonald’s lack structure and guidance. Etzioni believes that most high school students who work in fast-food have no supervision, other than from peers, which results in poor discipline and inappropriate behavior.

The fast food industry both feeds and prays off the young. Pioneers in developing marketing strategies to target children, the fast-food chains have even infiltrated the nation's schools through lunchroom franchises and special advertising packages that answer public education's need for funds; in every way possible, giving the children a loyal friend to rely on. In many franchises, teenagers are perfect candidates for low-paying, low-skilled, short-term jobs and constitute a large part of the fast-food chains' workforce; and often practically run individual locations, having more responsibility than most adults.

Schlosser examines how youths assume a crucial part in the workforce of the fast food industry. He takes note of around 66% of the country's fast food laborers are less than 20 years old. Rather than depending upon a little, steady, generously compensated, and well‑trained workforce, the fast food industry searches out part‑time, young laborers who are willing to accept low pay. Teenagers have been the ideal possibility for these occupations, not just on the grounds that they are less lavish to procure than grown-ups, additionally in light of the fact that their young inability makes them simpler to control. Another part of strong throughput is strict regulation at fast food eateries. Organizations force strict guidelines on how an errand is to be performed and make undertakings so they require as meager aptitude as could be allowed. Subsequently, it is anything but difficult to supplant specialists with new contracts, affordably and productively. Schlosser assaults the business for gathering government endowments for representative preparing and utilizing the financing rather to make more advances to dispense with preparing for

In Amitai Etzioni’s essay “Working at McDonald’s”, he argues that the jobs teens take up at popular fast food restaurants are detrimental to their education. His proposal was that working at these fast food restaurants negatively affects their education by encouraging teens to be more concerned about earning money than being successful in their studies. He claims that teens are getting these jobs to spend on petty items. Etzioni states that the routine and lack of creativity of the jobs are harmful and the hours in which teens work are long and interfere with students’ abilities to further their studies and complete assignments. He states that teens that have dropped out and are working at these restaurants have fallen into a stagnant condition

In high school, students are at the age where their priorities are all about them and their whole world involves them, themselves and maybe friends. To say the least, their priorities are not well established or correct if they have any. When the student gets a part-time job, like at a fast food restaurant it helps put their priorities straight. The students start to realize in order to make the money they need to pay for what they want, they need to make time adjustment and make real priorities. Students will learn that in order to have this job they will need to work during the weekends since school during the weekday. Working they will

Majority of Americans youngsters work and attend to school at the same time, due to the lack of money or for the pleasure of having money. Most of the times teen agers around junior year, start applying for jobs, it’s the perfect age to get a part time job. These youngsters mostly look out for fast food restaurants; for instance, McDonald, KFC or Popeye’s. These type of jobs are right-fitting for youngsters, since they undermine school attendance and involvement, and only requite few logical skills. Etzioni’s essay illustrates the difficulties and reasons why youngsters prefer easy, low income jobs than staying at school and get an education. Etzioni agrees that these jobs for the teen agers are unnecessary, since it distracts them from pursuing

In this piece of his book, Schlosser considers the workforce that keeps the fast-food industry running. Since this workforce is dominatingly embodied youngsters, Schlosser spends a significant part of the section considering how adolescents connect with the fast-food industry- - what are their working conditions; how does "low maintenance" employment meddle with school work; how do high schoolers spend their cash?

AmitaiEtizion’s ‘Working at McDonald’s’ is an essay, about the impacts on teenagers of fast-food chains such as McDonald’s. While the author puts aside the issue of consumption, he focuses on the impacts of the jobs these types of restaurants offer, and argue that such jobs negatively impacts students’ school performance. The issue is presented in a critical way, as the author firstly looks at how parents think that having a part-time job between classes is a good thing for students. However, upon further criticism, the author finds that such jobs fail to offer the entrepreneurial experience they were hoped to give students, citing as examples the poor pay, routinized forms of work, unhealthy work environment, and long-term impacts on the job

In the article Teenagers’ Work Can Have Downsides”by Jerald G Bachman describe how teens who are in high school that have jobs developed poor academic performances “ they're more likely to be involved in a variety of problems ” Jerald began the “Monitoring the Future “ project that monitored teens in high school and from college who had jobs and discovered a drop in the high school teens academics and made connections between long hours and problems behaviors are symptoms of issue like poor adjustments to school and greater interest in short term gratification .They encouraged for student to follow what they call a sweet spot a job that requires relatively few hours per week during the school year fewer hours the better.Student that have

Although, some teenagers face their problems. They plod along through school. Some of them get after-school or weekend jobs. They learn responsibility. Eventually, they enter adulthood and the work force. Successful, confident, and eager to work. They lead their lives using the knowledge they swallowed throughout their education and the power they gained. But not long after, they