1. Introduction 2. Social justice: a context for career education and guidance 3. Welfare to Work: economic challenges to socially just career practice 2. Liberté? Futilite? Autonome! Careers education as an emancipatory activity 3. Cultural diversity and guidance: myth or reality? 6. Career education for Muslim girls: meeting culture at the crossroads 7. (En)gendering socially just approaches to career guidance 8. Women, work and career development: equal employment opportunities or employment equity? 9. The career education curriculum and children with disabilities 10. Social Class, opportunity structures and career guidance 11. Working with youth at risk of exclusion 12. Social justice and equality of opportunity for Mexican young people 13. Beyond the toolbox: integrating multicultural principles into a career guidance intervention model 14. Challenging careers: perspectives from auto/biographical research