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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.
Once a short-term commitment at most, internships have become an obligatory rite of passage that often drags on for years.
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'.
[ 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.
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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).
Tanya de Grunwald, founder of careers website GraduateFog.co.uk Strictly speaking, most unpaid internships are illegal.
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Many applicants interested in equally worthy, yet less "sexy" fields of interest are forced to choose between adding a third part-time job and sleeping in order to accommodate the hours required by most unpaid internships.
The trickiest, from the company's point of view, are those that state that the internship must be "similar to training which would be given in an educational environment"; that the intern must not displace ordinary employees; and that the firm must not benefit from the work the intern carries out.By these criteria, most unpaid internships in the private sector in America look decidedly iffy.
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