INTERN NATION: HOW TO EARN NOTHING AND LEARN LITTLE IN THE BRAVE NEW ECONOMY

Book ID/图书代码： 13850011B44864

English Summary/英文概要： The first no-holds-barred exposé of the exploitative and divisive world of internships.

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. They are increasingly of all ages, and their numbers are growing fast—from 17 percent of college graduates in 1992 to 50 percent in 2008. A huge and increasing number of internships are illegal under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and this mass exploitation saves firms more than $600 million each year. Interns enjoy no workplace protections and no standing in courts of law—let alone benefits like health care.

Ross Perlin has written the first exposé of this world of drudgery and aspiration. In this witty, astonishing, and serious investigative work, Perlin takes the reader inside both boutique nonprofits and megacorporations such as Disney (which employs 8,000 interns at Disney World alone). He profiles fellow interns, talks to academics and professionals about what unleashed this phenomenon, and explains why the intern boom is perverting workplace practices in locations all around the world.

Insightful and humorous, Intern Nation will transform the way we think about the culture of work.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本書揭露全球實習文化被剝削的種種真實內幕
提供改革就業市場的最好處方
給實習生必讀的教戰手冊

美國就業市場每年的工作機會，有一到兩百萬的人口只能做實習生的工作。這些遍佈各種年齡層實習生的成長速度，從1992年到2008年，由百分之17增加至百分之50。他們穿梭在全美各個辦公室，提供弱勢國家各種援助。但事實上，這些實習機會多半是不合法，卻每年節省超過6億美元的開銷，而且很多實習生的工作沒有保障，不受到法律保護，更沒有醫療福利。
本書是第一本揭露全球實習文化剝削的真實內幕，許多你無法想像的公司企業以實習之名剝削青年的勞動力，例如迪士尼(Disney)就有將近8000名的員工是實習生。透過作者與專家學者的深入調查，揭開『實習文化』影響全球經濟的種種現象以及它如何改變我們的工作型態。(Chris)

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Reviews
How many interns does it take to screw in a light bulb? Who cares, it’s free. If that joke triggers cringe-inducing memories of schlepping coffee, Perlin, an intern turned intern activist, is your man. His exposé on the internship model initiates a critical conversation on internships—when are they exploitative and when are they necessary? can they help you land your dream job?—and his thoughtful book is necessary reading for the millions of young people trying to break into the working world through internships.Perlin begins by casting a harsh light on Disney World’s massive internship program, the Disney College Program, a so-called "educational experience" that is, in reality, a revolving door bringing in thousands of undergraduates—even high school students—who keep the Disney Magic alive by performing menial labor for meager wages. Perlin’s exposé of Disney demonstrates his eye for irony as well as his gift for engaging the reader with a steady stream of insight, humor, and well-deployed anecdotes. Perlin pivots from Disney villains to the evolution of the internship, a word borrowed from the French term "interne" used to describe junior medical men performing simple physician’s tasks. He compares and contrasts internships with the fading practice of apprenticeships, investments of time and labor that actually gave young people a foothold in an industry, and reveals how the internship trend represents a change in how individuals conceive of work and their role in the economy. Perlin also teases out the class issues inherent in the intern debate—many young people who must support themselves simply cannot afford to take on an unpaid internship, no matter how great a career opportunity it might be.But Perlin’s most shocking revelation isn’t that many internships are exploitative but that most are illegal. Companies of all sizes and across industries flout (with no consequences) the requirements outlined in the Fair Labor Standards Act to benefit from free labor. Perlin covers the complicity of colleges, many offering dubious internship programs aimed more at generating revenue for the school than benefiting students. Not even the federal government’s massive, intensely competitive internship programs escape Perlin’s scorn; he describes them as a hotbed of nepotism and squandered talent—but still, the right government internship is an all but necessary career step for an aspiring politician. Fortunately, Perlin also offers hope and bright solutions, and ends the book with an Intern Bill of Rights and the observation that "a general strike of all interns would show all they contribute for the first time a delicious low-level chaos to the world’s work." By Ben ZarovBen Zarov is an intern at Publishers Weekly, a graduate of Grinnell College, and an urban explorer. ---From Publishers Weekly

A timely book addressing the exploitation of the nation’s younger workforce under the guise of the ’internship model.’

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.---Kirkus Reviews

[Perlin’s] exposé on the internship model initiates a critical conversation on internships—when are they exploitative and when are they necessary? Can they help you land your dream job?—and his thoughtful book is necessary reading for the millions of young people trying to break into the working world through internships.---Publishers Weekly

About the Author/作者介绍： Ross Perlin is a graduate of Stanford, SOAS, and Cambridge, and has written for Time magazine, Lapham’s Quarterly, Guardian, Daily Mail and Open Democracy. He is researching disappearing languages in China.
Ross Perlin是史丹佛(Stanford)、倫敦大學亞非學院(SOAS)和劍橋(Cambridge)大學的研究生，他為時代雜誌、衛報、每日郵報、英國非營利教育組織 Open Democracy撰寫文章。他目前正在中國研究即將消失的語言。

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