From Apprenticeship to Internship
The Social and Legal Antecedents of the Intern Economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21187641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arielle Frenette (0000-0002-6688-473X, Arizona State University, corresponding author), Alexandre Frenette |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 351-360 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | tripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1726-670X • E-ISSN: 1726-670X |
| Publisher | Information Society Research (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.31269/triplec.v13i2.625 |
| OpenAlex | W2101653653 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article looks towards the future of the intern economy by focusing on its past. What led to recent debates about the intern economy? How did it become legally possible for interns to work for free? Using the United States as my case study, I draw parallels between the current intern economy and its closest historical antecedent, the apprenticeship system. By providing a brief overview of the history of work-based learning and the unpaid internship’s legal underpinnings, this article ultimately frames current lawsuits and debates as a correction to today’s insufficiently scrutinized youth labour regime not unlike the apprenticeship systems of the past. In the attempt to facilitate youth transitions from school to work, yet maintain minimum wage standards, government intervention and—more imminently likely—legal decisions will, I anticipate, eventually transform the intern economy much like the Fitzgerald Act of 1937 drastically formalized apprenticeships in the United States
Apprenticeship · Economics · Economy · Internship · Operations management · Parallels · Political science · Public relations · Wage · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
How Work Becomes Invisible
The intern economy in the cultural industry
Disparity learning during youth internships in Singapore
Aspirational Work
Practising being precarious workers
Trading labor for experience
It Was Supposed to Be an Internship”
Examining Workplace Affordance and Student Engagement in Engineering Co-op and Internship Literature
Experiential Learning in the Canadian Communications Landscape
Filling the gaps
Volunteering as Media Work
Apprenticeship
The New Spirit of Capitalism
The Craft Apprentice from Franklin to the Machine Age in America
Why Apprenticeship Persisted in Britain But Not in the United States
Apprenticeship and Training in Premodern England
Craft Guilds, Apprenticeship, and Technological Change in Preindustrial Europe
The Transformation of Industrial Apprenticeship in the United States
The Ideal and Reality
The Temp Economy
Making the Intern Economy
Nonstandard Employment Relations
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |