Internships

There was a time when the setting of employment minimum standards was the personification of civilization – no longer can you impose 20-hour days or work without pay. Needless to say, we still allow the importation of products from sweatshops, whilst making weak diplomatic statements against them. Yet that (at least some would insist) is another argument altogether.

But wait – did I say there has been an end to work without pay? Just last week I Googled the word “internship” and got 18.2 million results. The vast majority are unpaid, yet one may not dismiss internships, since they are “necessary for the competitive employment environment…” Unjust, this would seem…