Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy Perlin Ross
Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy Perlin Ross Millions of young people--and increasingly some not-so-young people--now work as interns. Intern Nation is the…
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Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy Perlin Ross
Millions of young people--and increasingly some not-so-young people--now work as interns. Intern Nation is the first expos of the exploitative world of internships. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand magazine offices, legislative backrooms, and Hollywood studios, but they also deliver aid in Afghanistan, map the human genome, and pick up garbage.
Insightful and humorous, Intern Nation will transform In this witty, astonishing, and serious investigative work, Ross Perlin profiles fellow interns, talks to academics and professionals about what unleashed this phenomenon, and explains why the intern boom is perverting workplace practices around the world.The hardcover publication of this book precipitated a torrent of media coverage in the US and UK, and Perlin has added an entirely new afterword describing the growing focus on this woefully underreported story.
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