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How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy
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April 2012
On Sale: April 4, 2012
286 pages
ISBN: 1844678830
EAN: 9781844678839
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help
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 in the US and UK, and Perlin has
added an entirely new afterword describing the growing focus
on this woefully underreported story. Insightful and
humorous, Intern Nation will transform the way we think
about the culture of work.
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