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Nationally, most internship programs are organized informally: either on an ad hoc basis or through business and personal connections (Kirwan and Streckman, 2009).
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Time was when most internships lacked this kind of substance.
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.
However, the group says most internships 'do not fulfil their purpose' and need to do more to 'empower the interns' community' in order to 'achieve concrete political change'.
Once a short-term commitment at most, internships have become an obligatory rite of passage that often drags on for years.
[ image: /photos/590953c4c14b3c606c1042a8] "Intern Nation," by Ross Perlin (Verso; $22.95) 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.
Because many graduates are desperate for experience, the result is that most internships now pay nothing, even when interns are effectively doing a proper job for months at a time.
Most internships require letters of recommendation.
In most internships box you in.
Most internships are spent doing work that nobody else wants to do.
Added together, it's far more support than most internships in major cities provide, especially in Washington, DC, where I interned after college.
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