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Feels like a murder but that's alright.: Unpaid Interns: Real World Work Or Just Free Labor?

newmodelminority:

Over 1 million Americans a year work as interns. About half of them are unpaid.

Alex Footman was among them, until recently. He worked as an unpaid intern for Black Swan, a film that won numerous awards and grossed over $300 million.

Footman was hoping an internship with  

I did an unpaid internship over the summer and I learned SO much. Mostly because I took a class/training course as a complement to the internship, but still… I don’t understand why the men in the article spent numerous months in the internship with Black Swan and then, at the end, decided it was not worth it. They are the ones who agreed to the internship, where the terms specified that it was unpaid. Fox should not necessarily owe these men anything. If they were unhappy with the internship, they were more than welcome to quit… or they could simply mark the experience as not worthwhile and find a new, satisfactory internship. I’d hate to see this generation be remembered for whining and incompetence, but the two are so prominent.

(Source: NPR)

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    I did an unpaid internship over the summer and I learned SO much. Mostly because I took a class/training course as a...
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    i’m trying to find an internship right now and so many of them are unpaid. i honestly cannot afford to take an unpaid...
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    Interesting. In Korea most internships, even if they last a month, are paid (+/- 1 mln won). The only unpaid intership I...
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    Lulz. France has been doing this for years. It got so bad that a couple years ago they made a law saying that if you...
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    So many people who have unpaid internships also aren’t getting any real life experience. Fetching documents, making...
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    I wasn’t talking about for-profit corporations. A lot of nonprofits and grassroots activist groups use unpaid...
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    corona—graminea:...Define Ethical Institution. #Corporations based on shareholder profits...
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    It’s really frustrating that a lot of unpaid internships are at really great, ethical institutions.
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