unpaid interns

[i_love_rocks]

hm...interesting debate about unpaid, long-term interns. Graduate students are forced to take unpaid internships of between 3-6 months to be able to gain experience and hopefully be offered a job.

Thereby access to jobs is restricted or made harder for those who don't have Mum & Dad cover their expenses for the internship period.

Sounds familiar? Not just archaeology then...

Now the government watchdog is 'investigating'.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/jul...mentpage=1

[EarlySlav]

When working abroad I have seen the affect of this where only the children of the well of get the museum jobs et al after the rest can not not hang around for years doing un-paid work however good they might be.

[kevin wooldridge]

Quite why this is 'news' to anyone in the Labour government or readers of the Guardian newspaper is beyond me. In times of economic stress the bourgeoisie will always revert to type and seek to protect its offspring.

Of course if the government 'watchdog' investigation concludes that we are all due a small outbreak of class war, whey hey!! Lets start building the barricades....}

With peace and consolation hath dismist, And calm of mind all passion spent...

[Ken Denham]

Been behind mine for about the last 30 years.

[BAJR Host]

Ah, Class War... happy memories! not taht I was in any way associate with them

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mohandas Gandhi

[Digitaldigging]

Class war? Or a reflection of attitudes towards jobs which are considered to be done for the love, not the money (and therefore worth less in terms of financial input to the economy and not worthy of public funding)?

"In times of economic stress the bourgeoisie will always revert to type and seek to protect its offspring"

In times of stress, everyone protects their offspring. Are you seriously suggesting that the middle classes are conspiring to keep all the poorly paid jobs for themselves and their children? If so then you should rejoice, for in a generation or two the middle classes will be no more.[:o)]

[RedEarth]

quote:Originally posted by amiable drudge

quote:Originally posted by Digitaldigging
rejoice, for in a generation or two the middle classes will be no more

that's the spirit! no rest until the gutters run blue with the blood of the class traitors and the economic parasites!

i suppose the big question is, do we start with the people associated with "Location, Location, Location", or do we...save them for later...

unite, for we have nothing to lose but our tea-breaks, chocolate Hob-Nobs and cast-iron gold-plated council sinecures!

(oops! let the cat out of the bag!)

Is there nothing in the AUP about advocating the murder of the middle classes!

[Austin Ainsworth]

quote:Originally posted by RedEarth

Is there nothing in the AUP about advocating the murder of the middle classes!

Nope, first against the wall. [:p]

[shavedmonkey]

3-6 months unpaid experience before you get a job in archaeology. This is news how?

[1man1desk]

There is nothing 'new' about this, either in archaeology or in a whole swathe of other professions. Nor does it necessarily exclude the less well off.

I and my wife (a biochemist) both did long periods of voluntary work before moving into very low-paid, insecure work in the early parts of our careers, without any parental subsidy. We did it mainly living on supplementary benefit (?23 a week in 1984, plus part of your rent paid, as far as I remember).

Benefit rules are much tighter now, though, and it is questionable whether an intern would be able to claim any benefit (because they would be deemed not to be available for paid work).

1man1desk

to let, fully furnished