Internships

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'The rise of unpaid internships gets the blast it deserves. It's free labour slavery for the young who can afford to do it and yet denies access to all without parents to support them. All kinds of professions gladly take in bright graduates for free, so their CVs shine with experience their less fortunate contemporaries lack. It should be banned under employment law: instead the recommendation here is for a code of practice with a Kitemark, requiring wages and grants.'

Polly Toynbee, The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/20/social-mobility-inequality-milburn