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Analysis Of Working At Mcdonald's By Amitai

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In “Working at McDonald’s”, Amitai Etzioni depicts the reasons why teenagers do not gain much from McDonald’s type jobs. Etzioni argues that working part time jobs especially in fast food chains undermine youngsters’ school attendance and involvement and do not expose them for the skills needed in later life. He further mentions that McDonald’s job is highly uneducational in several ways. Far from providing opportunities for “entrepreneurship, self-supervision, self-discipline, and self scheduling”, youngsters’ part-time paying jobs are “highly structured, highly routinized”. Etzioni asserts that the fast-food chains type of job do not add no intrinsic educational value to those teenagers nor encourage skill acquisition and development but

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