Alexandre Frenette, "Blame the Intern: On (Not) Breaking Into the Creative Economy" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Who gets to be a creative worker? In Blame the Intern: On (Not) Breaking Into the Creative Economy (bookshop.org/a/12343/9780691181486), (Princeton University Press, 2026) Alexandre Frenette (linkedin.com/in/alexandre-frenette-9444423), an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University, (as.vanderbilt.edu/sociology/bio/alex-frenette)
examines the relationship between work and education in the difficult
moment of the early career transition from university to industry.
Drawing on a detailed case study of the music industry, the book
explains and critiques the way internships have come to dominate routes
into many careers in contemporary society. An accessible yet
theoretically rich read, the book will be of interest to creative
workers at any point in their career, as well as sociologists and
humanities scholars, along with any reader interested in how and why our
workplaces are so unequal.
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