![]() ![]() ![]() Perlin's energetic exploration of this world is mostly confined to America, with a few British detours, but the questions he asks are profound and wide-ranging. Internships have spread to virtually every industry and almost every country, while internship-related businesses and campus career offices also proliferate, hawking internships, organizing internship fairs." ![]() build the human genome, deliver the weather report on TV. shuttle coffee in a thousand newsrooms, Congressional offices and Hollywood studios. His preface offers an overview: "Interns. As Ross Perlin puts it in this timely and clear-sighted book, the first on the internship boom, "In much of the developed world, the subtle, relentless pressure to do an internship is now simply part of being young." Yet strikingly, almost everyone involved in the controversy seems to agree on one thing: that a few days' vaguely defined work as an intern is now a crucial early building block for a desirable, decades-long white-collar career. ![]()
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