A Capitalist’s Dream
Andrew Ross: Interns, 19 May 2011
Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy
by Ross Perlin.
Verso, 258 pp., £14.99, May 2011,978 1 84467 686 6 Show More
by Ross Perlin.
Verso, 258 pp., £14.99, May 2011,
“... at the Gap and Lady Gaga in line to be taught about millinery by Philip Treacy. In Intern Nation, Ross Perlin, a survivor of serial internships on three continents, describes the lengths to which graduates must go to secure an unpaid intern position (often the first of many) that might help them build a CV or get a foot in the door. An auction market has ... ”