A Rhetorical Analysis Of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation
In Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation specifically chapter 3 Schlosser asserts many claims on the point that the fast food industry is willing to go at full extents to try and get the most out of their restaurants and ignore the well being of their workforce. He mainly does this by building up a relationship between his audience and the subject where the audience can relate to the claims made by him. Where the Multi billion dollar Franchise is willing to shut down one of its restaurants down and open up a new restaurant down the street just to avoid the workers from unionizing. In page 75 Schlosser uses the workers to bond with his audience and evoke empathetic views to show how the fast food industry uses its workers in wrong ways to get
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Schlosser portrays many types of claims throughout the section where in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s many Mcdonald’s workers across the United States tried to join a union. Though many failed the manners taken to stop the unionization sometimes went a little too far. A group of young employees McDonald’s employees claimed that “managers had forced them to take lie detector tests, interrogated them about union activities and threatened them with dismissal if they refused to answer”(Schlosser,76) later getting the practice stopped after it was in violation of state law. Another instance where McDonald's went to far is where a McDonald’s restaurant in St.Hubert was about to get their certification process to be unionized but then shut down weeks before the process could take effect. As well as in Lansing Michigan where all the crew members were fired, the restaurant was shut down, a new McDonald's was built down the block - and the workers who signed union cards were not rehired. Schlosser fabricates the audience's emotions to feel infuriated towards the corporation for all the ways they handled their manners and at the same time remorse for the workers who were fired. Where just to stop unionizing they are willing to shut down their stores only to spare the money on the extra wages and the health
Schlosser portrays many types of claims throughout the section where in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s many Mcdonald’s workers across the United States tried to join a union. Though many failed the manners taken to stop the unionization sometimes went a little too far. A group of young employees McDonald’s employees claimed that “managers had forced them to take lie detector tests, interrogated them about union activities and threatened them with dismissal if they refused to answer”(Schlosser,76) later getting the practice stopped after it was in violation of state law. Another instance where McDonald's went to far is where a McDonald’s restaurant in St.Hubert was about to get their certification process to be unionized but then shut down weeks before the process could take effect. As well as in Lansing Michigan where all the crew members were fired, the restaurant was shut down, a new McDonald's was built down the block - and the workers who signed union cards were not rehired. Schlosser fabricates the audience's emotions to feel infuriated towards the corporation for all the ways they handled their manners and at the same time remorse for the workers who were fired. Where just to stop unionizing they are willing to shut down their stores only to spare the money on the extra wages and the health