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Intern Nation

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Description for Intern Nation Paperback. The first no-holds-barred expose of the exploitative and divisive world of internships. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; KCFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 122 x 21. Weight in Grams: 326.
Millions of young people-and increasingly some not-so-young people-now work as interns. 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. Intern Nation is the first exposé of the exploitative world of internships. 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
258
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
326g
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844678839
SKU
V9781844678839
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About Ross Perlin
Ross Perlin is a graduate of Stanford, SOAS, and Cambridge, and has written for, the New York Times, Time magazine, Lapham's Quarterly, Guardian, Daily Mail, and Open Democracy. He is researching disappearing languages in China.

Reviews for Intern Nation
'Interns built the pyramids,' the great magazine The Baffler once declared. And that was just the beginning of their labors, as Ross Perlin demonstrates in this fascinating and overdue exposé of the wage labor without wages, the resumé-building servitude, at the heart of contemporary capitalism.
Benjamin Kunkel, a founding editor of n+1 and author of the novel Indecision A ... Read more

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