{"product_id":"intern-nation-isbn-9781844678839","title":"Intern Nation","description":"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. \u003ci\u003eIntern Nation\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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, \u003ci\u003eIntern Nation\u003c\/i\u003e will transform the way we think about the culture of work.“‘Interns built the pyramids,’ the great magazine \u003ci\u003eThe Baffler\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e and author of the novel \u003ci\u003eIndecision\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A book that offers landmark coverage of its topic.”—Andrew Ross, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Perlin contends that most internships are illegal, according to the Fair Labor and Standards Act, stripping people who are employees in all but name of workers’ rights.”—\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A portrait of how white-collar work is changing ... thought-provoking and at times jaw-dropping—almost a companion volume to Naomi Klein’s celebrated 2000 exposé of modern sweatshops, \u003ci\u003eNo Logo\u003c\/i\u003e.”—Andy Beckett, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A compelling investigation of a trend that threatens to destroy ‘what’s left of the ordered world of training, hard work and fair compensation’ ... Full of restrained force and wit, this is a valuable book on a subject that demands attention.”—Anna Winter, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[An] eye-opening, welcome exposé.”—\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This vigorous and persuasive book ... argues that the fundamental issue is the growing contingency of the global workforce.”—Roger D. Hodge, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Organizations in America save $2 billion a year by not paying interns a minimum wage, writes Ross Perlin in \u003ci\u003eIntern Nation\u003c\/i\u003e.”—\u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Well-researched and timely.”—\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[E]ye-opening ... The book tackles a sprawling topic with earnestness and flair.”—Katy Waldman, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Perlin ... has an eye for polemical effectiveness.”—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A timely book addressing the exploitation of the nation’s younger workforce under the guise of the ‘internship model.’”—Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2011, \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A serious and extremely well-written text that offers sophisticated historical material about the origins of internship and its impact on the individuals concerned, the firms that use it and the world of work more generally.”—Cary L. Cooper, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Perlin’s attempt to understand internships as a symptom of wider trends in the economy ... makes the book such a fascinating read.”—\u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“When you are competing for jobs during a recession, the only thing worse than being exploited can be not being exploited. Yes, many internships are really crummy, but then some of them do ultimately lead to something ... which is why, when people have no access to internships at all, it makes them invisible.”—Ross Perlin speaking to Kaya Burgess, \u003ci\u003eTimes of London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Perlin dissects the employment practices of some of the world’s biggest corporations, inc¬luding Disney, which he accuses of replacing “well-trained, decently compensated full-timers” with an army of low-paid interns. But for employers that approach recruitment strategically, internships are typically a cost—albeit one they hope will pay off in better, happier recruits.”—\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Perlin’s] exposé on the internship model initiates a critical conversation on internships ... his thoughtful book is necessary reading for the millions of young people trying to break into the working world through internships.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“That fact that it took this long for someone to write this book seems as blatantly wrong as the practice itself. Perlin provides a welcome, long-overdue and much-needed argument.”—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Perlin’s writing is engaging and the questions he raises are valid ones in an increasingly competitive job market.”—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] blistering, highly entertaining attack on today’s internship culture.”—\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Cloaked in the innocent idea of the intern, aggressive employers are using young people trying to get a foothold to weaken the leverage of existing workers, especially professionals. Ross Perlin gives us an account of another subterranean strategy to undermine working people in the US.”—Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Alas, the valuable internship institution is being widely and flagrantly abused, as Ross Perlin demonstrates in this eye-opening book. A huge chunk of the American workplace has been distorted in an unhealthy way, and Perlin provides not only the diagnosis but the beginnings of a prescription.”—James Ledbetter, editor in charge of Reuters.com, and author of \u003ci\u003eUnwarranted Influence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The world has been waiting for this book. It’s lucky that someone as thoughtful and politically aware as Ross Perlin was there to write it.”—Anya Kamenetz, author of \u003ci\u003eGeneration Debt\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDIY U\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Few books have been written about the effect of internships, so this short book will be eye-opening for many. Students and parents should add it their reading lists.”—Repps Hudson, \u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“For critics such as Ross Perlin, author of \u003ci\u003eIntern Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, unpaid labor harms everyone in the labor market.”—Alexandra Alper, \u003ci\u003eReuters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eIntern Nation\u003c\/i\u003e provides a wide-angle overview of an international system of labor subsidization masked as career opportunity—indeed, as a de rigueur component of baccalaureate and even postgraduate degree work, without which a young person cannot hope to secure a gratifying and adequately remunerative professional career in the twenty-first century.”—Cecelia Tichi, \u003ci\u003eAcademe Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] scathing look at the internship culture ...”—\u003ci\u003eWashingtonian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Intern Nation] tracks how the explosion of internships in creative fields changed the entry level of many industries.”—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Critic's Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoss Perlin\u003c\/b\u003e is a graduate of Stanford, SOAS, and Cambridge, and has written for, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, \u003ci\u003eLapham’s Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOpen Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e. 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