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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 1553745" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Germany pays its interns. Why can’t the US?</strong></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/3/germany-pays-its-interns-why-cant-the-us.html?utm_content=opinion&utm_campaign=ajam&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow" target="_blank">http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/3/germany-pays-its-interns-why-cant-the-us.html?utm_content=opinion&utm_campaign=ajam&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow</a></p><p></p><p>A similar loss of “opportunity” occurred in the U.S. in the 1920s and 1930s. The passage of several state and federal laws culminating in the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act stripped minors of the right to sell their labor, threatening to send families who were dependent on their children’s wages into an even darker corner of poverty. Prominent figures such as Sen. William H. King of Utah warned that that the reform was really a “scheme of the Bolsheviks to have the state take charge of the children.”</p><p></p><p>Unpaid labor, like child labor, is a resource that developed countries have no valid reason to use. Technically, the U.S. has <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2013/04/19/6-legal-requirements-for-unpaid-internship-programs/" target="_blank">a law</a> protecting interns, but it is antiquated (unlike in Germany, in the U.S. there is no legal definition of “intern,” only “trainee”), is feebly framed and is rarely enforced. By sanctioning unpaid internships in the for-profit sector if they meet certain subjective criteria, the U.S. effectively puts the onus on interns to prove in court that they were treated like employees.</p><p></p><p>As Ross Perlin writes in his <a href="http://www.versobooks.com/books/1112-intern-nation" target="_blank">2012 book</a> “Intern Nation,” the move has shifted a significant financial burden to the worker by “transitioning from training programs and entry-level jobs to internships.” In exchange, young workers earn vague, nonmonetary rewards such as experience and contacts — social capital that was once conferred on apprentices or new hires in addition to rather than in place of wages.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 1553745, member: 56035"] [SIZE=6][B]Germany pays its interns. Why can’t the US?[/B][/SIZE] [URL]http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/3/germany-pays-its-interns-why-cant-the-us.html?utm_content=opinion&utm_campaign=ajam&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow[/URL] A similar loss of “opportunity” occurred in the U.S. in the 1920s and 1930s. The passage of several state and federal laws culminating in the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act stripped minors of the right to sell their labor, threatening to send families who were dependent on their children’s wages into an even darker corner of poverty. Prominent figures such as Sen. William H. King of Utah warned that that the reform was really a “scheme of the Bolsheviks to have the state take charge of the children.” Unpaid labor, like child labor, is a resource that developed countries have no valid reason to use. Technically, the U.S. has [URL='http://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2013/04/19/6-legal-requirements-for-unpaid-internship-programs/']a law[/URL] protecting interns, but it is antiquated (unlike in Germany, in the U.S. there is no legal definition of “intern,” only “trainee”), is feebly framed and is rarely enforced. By sanctioning unpaid internships in the for-profit sector if they meet certain subjective criteria, the U.S. effectively puts the onus on interns to prove in court that they were treated like employees. As Ross Perlin writes in his [URL='http://www.versobooks.com/books/1112-intern-nation']2012 book[/URL] “Intern Nation,” the move has shifted a significant financial burden to the worker by “transitioning from training programs and entry-level jobs to internships.” In exchange, young workers earn vague, nonmonetary rewards such as experience and contacts — social capital that was once conferred on apprentices or new hires in addition to rather than in place of wages. [/QUOTE]
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