Understanding Youth in the Global Economic Crisis

ISBN-13: 9781447315759 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 224 str.

Alan France

Opis

In this innovative book, Alan France looks not at the economic impact of the global economic crisis and great recession of the past decade, but at the effect these forces have had on our very understanding of youth through its associated institutions. Using eight countries as case studies, he undertakes an in-depth sociological analysis of historical and contemporary developments in secondary education, training, work, and welfare policy to show how the ecological landscape of youth has been affected. Mapping the growing influence of neoliberalism as a political strategy in each of the countries, he shows how, after the crisis, the reconfiguration of institutions and practices that are central to the lives of the young is accelerating, bringing new meaning to youth, age, transition, diversity, risk, and inclusion.

Spis treści

Understanding Youth in Contemporary Times; Theorising Youth; The Global Crisis and the ‘Age of Austerity’; Education and Training; The broken promise; Education and Training; From public benefit to private responsibility; Unemployment and Work; Precarious futures; NEETs and the Disengaged; The ‘new’ youth problem; Divergence and Difference: Contrasting cross-national experiences of being young; Education, Work and Welfare in Diverse Settings; Youth and Mobility; Inequality, leaving home and the question of youth migration; After the Crisis; Social change and what it means to be young.