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‘Working’ in a world without regulations

Pay Your Interns summit puts internships in the spotlight

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The End Of Interns - The Awl

The unpaid intern very might be the symbol of the last 10 years. Its role is debated everywhere from books and news to the TV shows like Girls. It's a central figure of the a flexible global economy and an almost universal experiences for those who graduated post the 2008 recession. While the debate rages on as to whether an unpaid internship is even legal, the experience still shapes career trajectories even once the work is paid.

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Unpaid Interns, Complicit Colleges | New York Times

"Colleges and universities have become cheerleaders and enablers of the unpaid internship boom, failing to inform young people of their rights or protect them from the miserly calculus of employers. In hundreds of interviews with interns over the past three years, I found dejected students resigned to working unpaid for summers, semesters and even entire academic years — and, increasingly, to paying for the privilege."

Do Internships Crowd Out Work or School? | Slate 03.07.2013

“Spending a year as an unpaid intern sounds like a financially unattractive option. But spending nine months getting a master's from Columbia Journalism School costs $53,346.”

Unpaid Internships Are a Rich-Girl Problem—and Also a Real Problem

While many understand the intern to be well-off and female, the issue has traditionally been discussed in terms of class, not gender. But that's begun to change since Schwartz's essay. Schwartz draws a connection between unpaid office workers today and unpaid housework of mid-century married women—even when they worked outside the home, women were underpaid back then, too, and for a similar reason."

The No Limits Job | New York Times 03.13.2013