free labour
The labour of being studied in a free love economy
It was the ambivalence suggested by the initial proposed title of this special issue of ephemera, ‘Workers, despite themselves’, that hailed us.
Work experience without qualities? A documentary and critical account of an internship
Going internal
Internships and unpaid work placements are today touted, even celebrated, as necessary steps on the path towards gaining employment. They become increasingly normalised and recommended as an essential means of boosting the contemporary art-culture-service worker’s chances of accumulating the given ‘experience’ valued by potential ‘industry’ employers. In doing so, internships and placements appear to offer perhaps the best chance of securing that perceived ‘dream job’ for those seeking to progress in, or more usually to enter, the so-called creative sector.
