Mallick: Huffington Post, AOL and the perils of free labour
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February 11, 2011, 10:53 am
Filed under: ideas, news articles | Tags: article, ideas, rights, unpaid labour, work, working
Filed under: ideas, news articles | Tags: article, ideas, rights, unpaid labour, work, working
by Heather Mallick in The Toronto Star (February 10, 2011)
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/936573–mallick-huffington-post-aol-and-the-perils-of-free-labour
Excerpt:
“Free work is like a puddle of dirty water, spreading fast and if you’re young, hard to escape unless you keep your wits about you. Unpaid interns are a byword in office life now but they have lousy lives. There’s a reason interns are asked to rub lotion onto the legs of talk-show hosts. It’s that people who work for free are treated worse than paid people. But you learn so much about the business! ”
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