Unpaid internships for law students appear to be on the rise in law firms, as in other sectors of the economy. I argue that such unpaid internships are illegal under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and raise ethical questions under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Moreover, the ...
We can see the traces of this idea in many places: the taboo that surrounds talking about money in art schools, the persistence of unpaid design internships, and the regular propositions to pitch for free. For several decades, the price of this belief has been creatives’ difficulty in ...
The most bald-faced gambit, though, comes via the Draft League, a new six-team circuit conjured into being by MLB that will play June through August and, in effect, provide unpaid summer internships for recent college graduates seeking a shot at the pros. (The league’s inaugural teams ar...
For Polanyi (2006), however, such “completely commodified labor” and “completely unregulated labor markets” do not exist; they are both utopian assumptions. In his view, the commodity image of labor is entirely fictitious. Labor is only another name for innate human activities that are not ...
exceedingly difficult for her to make progress toward learning new programming languages or get hired for an internship with this kind of erratic schedule. It was even hard for her to apply to the dozens of internships as she was advised to do because she also had a full-time, low wage...
If that wide-eyed dreamer Dick Whittington were to come to London today, he’d be fucked. He’d end up doing a series of unpaid internships at digital marketing agencies called things like Everest and Spurt!, he’d live as a property guardian in an industrial estate in Barking, ...