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Working At Mcdonald's By Amitai

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Thesis: Part time jobs are beneficial to high school students if utilized correctly. Though part time jobs can be beneficial for high school students- teaching them skills and providing work experience- not everyone thinks so. In his essay “Working at McDonald’s”, Amitai Etzioni explains to his readers why part time jobs in fast food restaurants and places like them are bad for high school students. Firstly, he claims that there is no room for advancement on the career ladder at these part time jobs, but this is not true. Etzioni states that “fast-food chains and other such places of work (record shops, bowling alleys) keep costs down by having teens supervise teens” (262). This is a complete contradiction to his overall claim that there is
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