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Intern Nation How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy

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ISBN-10: 1844678830

ISBN-13: 9781844678839

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ross Perlin

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Every year, between one and two million Americans work as interns.They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand newsrooms, congressional offices, and Hollywood studios, but they also deliver aid in Afghanistan, build the human genome, and pick up garbage. Ross Perlin’s book is the first exposé of the exploitative world of internships, and its hardcover publication precipitated a torrent of media coverage in the US and UK. In this witty, astonishing, and serious investigative work, 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. Insightful and humorous,…    
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Book details

List price: $9.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 4/26/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.11" wide x 7.71" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Ross Perlinnbsp;is a graduate of Stanford, SOAS and Cambridge. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, and the Guardian. He is researching disappearing languages in the US, China and the former Soviet Union.