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Process essay: The process of coaching children in youth sports
In his chapter, "Behind the Counter," of his expose Fast Food Nation, the author Eric Schlosser highlights the darker side of working at a fast food restaurant. The labor is frequently young, often exploited, and regarded as a disposable commodity by the managers. In fact, it works to the company's advantage if there is a quick turn-around of labor. This means that the company does not have to pay raises or benefits to cheap, teenage labor, and one worker is easily replaced by another. By keeping labor costs down, the price of fast food remains inexpensive. However, Schlosser believes the customer should know that the hamburger served at McDonalds was prepared by a teenager encouraged to work past the legally-mandated hours for someone his age. That teen might feel pressured to skip studying or school to make minimum wage at a dead-end job, and even to work under dangerous conditions.
However, the exploitation by the young by the old is not only showcased in fast food restaurants, where workers toil under hot lamps wearing paper hats. The increased drive to obtain athletic scholarships or even to make the Olympics has caused many parents to become taskmasters themselves, more so than any fast food manager. They pressure their students ever-onward to succeed at high-profile sports. "Children are playing team sports in the U.S. By the age of four. By the time they reach 10-years-old they may already be in elite competitions" (Davis 2005). Only a very small fraction...
Fast Food Nation" Chapter 3 "Behind the Counter" Would you like to be exploited with those fries? In Chapter 3, "Behind the Counter," of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation Schlosser portrays an underage teenage workforce exploited by managers and often forced to work in unsafe conditions. Companies justify this by stating that young workers benefit from the discipline and skills learned on the job. However, time spent behind the fast food
The author talks about one farmer who refuses to use the tactics other big ranchers use to fatten up their cattle for the biggest profits at the consumers' expense. He writes, "None of the cattle used in Lasater Grasslands Beef spend any time at a feedlot. The meat is much lower in fat than grain-fed beef, and has a much stronger, most distinctive flavor" (Schlosser, 2002, p. 257). If
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