Greig de Peuter, Nicole S. Cohen, and Enda Brophy, eds. (2015) “Interrogating Internships: Unpaid Work, Creative Industries, and Higher Education”, special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism, and Culture 13(2): 329-605. [PDF]
The cumulative effect of serial internships and zero-wages is the hardening of established social exclusions in the labour market, the devaluation of labour, wage depression across the labour economy, and the acclimatization of a generation of indebted workers to hustling from gig to gig with few expectations of their employers. Internships are, then, an entry point for interrogating contested conditions of life, labour, and learning at a historical moment when precarity is an encroaching structure of feeling.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Greig de Peuter, Nicole S. Cohen, and Enda Brophy
Conceptualizing Internships
Media and Cultural Industries Internships: A Thematic Review and Digital Labour Parallels
Thomas F. Corrigan
From Apprenticeship to Internship: The Social and Legal Antecedents of the Intern Economy
Alexandre Frenette
Interning and Investing: Rethinking Unpaid Work, Social Capital, and the “Human Capital Regime”
Sophie Hope and Joanna Figiel
What Killed Moritz Erhardt? Internships and the Cultural Dangers of “Positive” Ideas
Bogdan Costea, Peter Watt, and Kostas Amiridis
Internships and Creative Industries
Under the Cloak of Whiteness: A Circuit of Culture Analysis of Opportunity Hoarding and Colour-blind Racism Inside US Advertising Internship Programs
Christopher Boulton
Reality TV’s Embrace of the Intern
Tanner Mirrlees
Expo Milano 2015: The Institutionalization of Working for Free in Italy
Roberto Ciccarelli
A History of Internships at CBC Television News
Marlene Murphy
(De)valuing Intern Labour: Journalism Internship Pay Rates and Collective Representation in Canada
Errol Salamon
Internships, Workfare, and the Cultural Industries: A British Perspective
David Lee
Internships and Higher Education
Nothing for Money and Your Work for Free: Internships and the Marketing of Higher Education
Mara Einstein
“You Kind of Have to Bite the Bullet and do Bitch Work”: How Internships Teach Students to Unthink Exploitation in Public Relations
Michelle Rodino-Colocino and Stephanie N. Berberick
Negotiating Educated Subjectivity: Intern Labour and Higher Education in Hong Kong
Ip Iam Chong
Interrogating Course-Related Public Interest Internships in Communications
Sandra Smeltzer
Educating the Precariat: Intern Labour and a Renewed Approach to Media Literacy Education
Doug Tewksbury
Unwaged Posts in UK Universities: Controversies and Campaigns
Kirsten Forkert and Ana Lopes
Intern Labour Activism
Art Struggles: Confronting Internships and Unpaid Labour in Contemporary Art
Panos Kompatsiaris
Report on Intern Rights Advocacy in 2013–2014
Intern Labor Rights
Ontario Interns Fight Back: Modes of Resistance Against Unpaid Internships
William Webb
Challenging Intern Nation: A Roundtable with Intern Labour Activists in Canada
Nicole S. Cohen and Greig de Peuter
Exploited for a Good Cause? Campaigning Against Unpaid Internships in the UK Charity Sector
Vera Weghman