Every year between one & two million Americans work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand newsrooms congressional offices & Hollywood studios but they also deliver aid in Afghanistan build the human genome & pick up garbage. Ross Perlins book is the first expose of the exploitative world of internships & its hardcover publication precipitated a torrent of media coverage in the US & UK. In this witty astonishing & serious investigative work Perlin profiles fellow interns talks to academics & professionals about what unleashed this phenomenon & explains why the intern boom is perverting workplace practices around the world. Insightful & humorous Intern Nation will transform the way we think about the culture of work.