Internships

Anya Kamenetz (2006) and Jennifer Halperin (2010) take opposing views of the issue of unpaid internships. In their pieces, the discuss some of the same issues, but they also discuss different issues, and the two writers certainly come to different conclusions about the issue of unpaid internships. At the heart of the issue are unpaid, rather than paid, internships, because this is a rising trend in both business and academia to use student interns to perform work. The internship provides valuable experience to the student, but there is some criticism of the practice of not paying interns because they are providing their time and labor. This paper will discuss and dissect the points that each of these authors is making about unpaid internships.

The first point that is made is about fairness of the unpaid internship. Both authors agree that, in general, internships are a good thing for students....
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