1. The Discourses of Free Labor: Career Management, Employability, and the Unpaid Intern.
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Discenna, Thomas A.
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INTERNSHIP programs , *EMPLOYABILITY , *CAREER development , *CRITICAL discourse analysis , *INCOME inequality , *UNIVERSITIES & colleges - Abstract
Employing Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this essay analyzes the discourses surrounding college internships. As universities continue to promote internships as an educational experience and pathway to career success, this study highlights the way that such practices contribute to the rising problem of income inequality by inculcating in some of our youngest workers the expectation that free labor is necessary for employment success. Specifically, the discourses of unpaid internships construct a laboring subject that willingly accedes to the demand to remain "employable" through a strategy of career management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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