Working At Mcdonalds Amitai Etzioni

George Washington University Sociologist Amitai Etzioni analyzed the negative values that teen-agers get from working at fast-food joints in the essay “Working at McDonalds’”. Etzioni shares her views on the consequences of American teeners getting high pay for “highly-routinized” jobs.

In the article Etzioni looks back on the American tradition of letting youngsters work in order to teach them the values of self-reliance and being productive .She analyzed how the current trend of teeners working for fast-food joints does not achieve the teaching of these values.

In the past, working for youngsters meant delivering newspapers or setting up lemonade stands offering enough opportunities for youngsters to be disciplined and creative as compared to the jobs offered by McDonald’s and the others. The latter provide regular employment and high compensation but offer little room for entrepreneurship, initiative and inventiveness.This, according to the Etzioni, makes youngsters nothing but workers on an assembly line.

Working At Mcdonalds Article

The author in the end reminds parents that working is not automatically a learning activity for their kids but can possibly be detrimental to their kids’ future.