Class Quote by Deborah Smith

“All of us—employers, parents, schools, government agencies, and interns themselves—are complicit in the devaluing of work, the exacerbation of social inequality, and the disillusionment…

— Ross Perlin

It struck me that a good part of the agency business involved peddling free intern hours and ideas, generated by sales teams from media…

— Anonymous

I knew that I wanted to intern at 'Teen Vogue' from the moment the first issue hit newsstands. Luckily, the team at Polo Ralph…

— Emily Weiss

Particularly with internships, you have to work for a year with no money. How on Earth are you going to finance that?

— Rob James-Collier

“depletion and climate change. For the older generation it’s easy to misunderstand the word ‘student’ or ‘graduate’: to my contemporaries, at college in the…

— Paul Mason

There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting a salary…

— Astra Taylor

People like me start organizing conferences and editing journals, even become tenured professors talking about Empire of the Senseless with a bunch of wide-eyed…

— Davis Schneiderman

The nature of business is swindling.

— August Bebel

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

— Manuel Puig

The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest.

— Robert Reich

People really in the meat grinder of the front lines are not, for the most part, insured or salaried network correspondents. They're young freelancers.…

— Sebastian Junger

As organizations, we have to find ways to create more opportunities, especially for our young people. A lot of corporations, they have to make…

— Dolores Huerta