Article Analysis of Amitai Etzioni's The Fast-Food Factories: McJobs are Bad for Kids

Amitai Etzioni intent for writing “The Fast-Food Factories: McJobs are Bad for Kids,” was to relay a message to parents that teenagers shouldn 't work while still in school. “Closer examination, however, finds the McDonald 's kind of job highly uneducational in several ways”. It doesn 't give teens enough to prepare for the future of being on their own, nor enough knowledge to start their own franchise or business. McDonald 's is described as a “highly routinized” job; McDonald 's is a typical and ordinary job. Not much can be learned from doing the same things repeatedly. “These are breeding grounds for robots working for yesterday 's assembly lines, not tomorrow 's high tech posts '”. Etzioni uses insensitive words when referencing to this McDonald 's job. A job like McDonald 's would take away from school and a prosperous future. Statistics proved that most teens drop out of high school because of their jobs and teens will work “low-skill jobs” for basically the rest of their life. Etzioni used evidence to support the fact that teens shouldn 't be working such as the Charner-Fraser study. Teens are supposed to concentrate on school and build a career, but with a job they will be tired an useless after a long day of work. Parents shouldn 't encourage teens to work at such a young age, but they should push teens to further their education so they may be successful. If teens do want a job the parent should encourage them to find a job in a “proper work setting” not a fast-food restaurant.

Works Cited
Etzioni, Amitai. “The Fast Food Factories: McJobs are Bad for Kids.” The Washington Post 24 August 1986: 170 George Washington University. The Communitarian Network.n.d Web 22 July 2013

Cited: Etzioni, Amitai. “The Fast Food Factories: McJobs are Bad for Kids.” The Washington Post 24 August 1986: 170 George Washington University. The Communitarian Network.n.d Web 22 July 2013