Learning to Labour in Post-Soviet Russia: Vocational Youth in Transition

ISBN-13: 9780415479851 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 248 str.

Charles Walker

Opis

This book explores how young people in Russia struggle with individual transitions to adulthood – in education, work, housing and family – in a society which itself is undergoing a rapid and thoroughgoing transformation. Based on extensive original research, it shows how Russia’s vocational education system continues to channel its graduates into employment in state and former-state industrial enterprises, despite the severe problems with wage non-payment, irregularity of employment and unsafe working conditions, at the same time as young vocational graduates themselves are more interested in pursuing the new opportunities in the emerging service sector and the increasingly accessible market of higher education. Overall, it shows how young people’s aspirations are at odds with, and how some circumvent, a system designed to prepare working class children for working class jobs and thereby reinforce existing social stratification.

Recenzje

"By carefully contextualising the empirical case study, both in relation to Soviet structures of education and employment and to a range of theoretical perspectives of youth transition in sociology, this book is of interest both to area studies specialists and sociologists." - Suvi Salmenniemi, Zhanna Chernova & Larisa Shpakovskaya (2013) - Europe-Asia Studies

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Youth transitions in theoretical perspective 3. Transitions in transition 4. Managing transitions: the IVET system in Ul’ianovsk Oblast’  5. Virtual transitions: from ‘inheritance’ to individualization  6. ‘Learning to learn’: making and breaking educational transitions 7. Re-embedding transitions: social networks and role playing.

O autorze

Charles Walker is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Southampton, and Honorary Research Associate at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK.