Andrew Wender Cohen was interviewed on Marketplace for the piece, "The internship, brought to you by summer." According to Cohen, the current system of training and acclimating young people to the work world has its antecedents in the Middle Ages. “Families couldn’t necessarily afford to feed all the members of the household, so this was a way of getting rid of children who had gotten too old to live in the house and not work.” 07/13/17