Internships, employability and the search for decent work experience / / edited by Andrew Stewart [and three others].

• TeilnehmendeR: Stewart, Andrew, 1959-; Edward Elgar Publishing,
• Place / Publishing House: Northampton : : Edward Elgar Publishing,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The ILO Future of Work
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 pages).

"This groundbreaking book examines the growing phenomenon of internships and the policy issues they raise, during a time when internships or traineeships have become an important way of transitioning from education into paid work. Featuring contributions from established and emerging scholars i...

Table of Contents

• Part I. Background and context
• 1. Internships: A policy and regulatory challenge / Andrew Stewart, Rosemary Owens, Niall O'Higgins and Anne Hewitt
• 2. The nature and prevalence of internships / Andrew Stewart
• Part II. Internships and employability
• 3. What makes for a 'good' internship? / Niall O'Higgins and Luis Pinedo Caro
• 4. How do internships undertaken during higher education affect graduates' labour-market outcomes in Italy and the United Kingdom? / Charikleia Tzanakou, Luca Cattani, Daria Luchinskaya and Giulio Pedrini
• 5. Challenging the assumptions supporting work experience as a pathway to employment / Paula McDonald, Andrew Stewart and Damian Oliver
• 6. The (non)instrumental character of unpaid internships: Implications for regulating internships / Wil Hunt and Charikleia Tzanakou
• Part III. Regulating internships: national perspectives
• 7. Rights and obligations in the context of internships and traineeships: A German perspective / Bernd Waas
• 8. The law and regulation of internships in South Africa / Mahlatse Innocent Malatji
• 9. Internships and apprenticeships in Sweden, collective bargaining and social partner involvement / Jenny Julén Votinius and Mia Rönnmar
• 10. Square pegs and round holes: Shrinking protections for unpaid interns under the Fair Labor Standards Act / James J. Brudney
• 11. Work experience, the contract of employment and the scope of labour law: The United Kingdom and Australia compared / Rosemary Owens
• Part IV. Internships, education and welfare
• 12. Regulating international educational internships: Opportunities and challenges / Joanna Howe
• 13. Universities as internship regulators: Evidence from Australia / Anne Hewitt
• 14. Regulating internships in active labour market programmes: A comparative perspective / Irene Nikoloudakis
• 15. Trainees - the new army of cheap labour: Lessons from workfare / Amir Paz-Fuchs
• 16. Extending social security to trainees in Spain, France and Germany: A tale of segmentation / Alexandre de le Court
• Part V. Human rights and equal opportunity
• 17. Fundamental rights broadening the scope of labour law? The example of trainees / Annika Rosin
• 18. Working at the edges of legal protection: Equality law and youth work experience from a comparative perspective / Alysia Blackham
• 19. Traineeships and systemic discrimination against young workers / Julia López López
• Part VI. Internship regulation: into the future
• 20. Developing new standards for internships / Andrew Stewart, Rosemary Owens, Niall O'Higgins and Anne Hewitt
• Index.