• The breaking of the spell. Young women and internships in popular television culture

    Author(s):
    Mara Ferreri, Valeria Graziano (see profile)
    Date:
    2014
    Group(s):
    Cultural Studies, Education and Pedagogy, Feminist Humanities, Labor Studies
    Subject(s):
    Popular culture, Television, Feminism, Social classes
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    teenager, Series, pop culture, free labour, internship, unpaid labour, Class
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/c0d8-2w76
    Abstract:
    This article is concerned with the popular imaginaries associated with internships and unpaid labour and their implications for emerging subjectivities and conceptualisations of work. It draws on a comparative analysis of three prime-time television series about young women’s experiences of their first entry in the world or work. By analysing the articulation of power relations between characters, and the imaginaries of work and success mobilised, the three series under examination, The Carries Diaries, Girls and 2 Broke Girls, all reveal a normalisation of internships as a rite of passage for educated young women to enter the world of professional employment, articulated through different approaches to the issues of pedagogical, gender and labour relations. Their pre-emptive inherent critique of the official dual promise of internships as a learning experience and as a step towards paid employment is analysed in relation to recent critical attempts to counter-representations and free labour organising.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.3280/SL2014-133004
    Publisher:
    Franco Angeli
    Pub. Date:
    2014-4-3
    Journal:
    SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO
    Issue:
    133
    Page Range:
    58 - 70
    ISSN:
    0392-5048,1972-554X
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    4 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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