Young People and Work

ISBN-13: 9781138261181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 310 str.

Robin Price; Paula McDonald; Barbara Pini

Opis

This edited book brings together empirical studies of young people in paid employment from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and in different national settings. Each of the three sections of the book explores a key aspect of young people's employment: their experience of work, intersections between work and education, and the impact of other actors and institutions.

Spis treści

Contents: A majority experience: young people's encounters with the labour market, Robin Price, Paula McDonald, Janis Bailey and Barbara Pini; Part I Experiences of Work: Making money, helping out, growing up: working children in Sweden, Tobias Samuelsson; Young people experiencing work in a boomtown labour market, Christopher D. O'Connor; The working experiences of student migrants in Australia and New Zealand, Danaë Anderson, Ryan Lamare and Zeenobiyah Hannif; Men at work? Emerging nuances in young masculinities in the United Kingdom's retail sector, Steven Roberts. Part II Intersections Between Work and Education: Good, the bad and the ugly: the health and safety of young workers, Danaë Anderson, Zeenobiyah Hannif and Felicity Lamm; Juggling school and work and making the most of both, Margaret Vickers; Work-study conflict or facilitation? Time use tradeoffs among employed students, Lonnie Golden and John Baffoe-Bonnie; The occupational aspirations of adolescents: understanding the developmental context of teenagers' desires for future work roles, Sampson Lee Blair; Youth and precarious employment in Europe, Luísa Oliveira, Helen Carvalho and Luísa Veloso. Part III The Other Actors: Regulating youth work: lessons from Australia and the United Kingdom, Andrew Stewart and Natalie van der Waarden; Employers' management of part-time student labour, Erica Smith and Wendy Patton; Social inclusion for young people in the Nordic countries: similar but not identical, Jonas Olofsson and Eskil Wadensjö; University student employment in Germany and Australia and its impact on attitudes toward union membership, Damian Oliver; Declining youth membership: the views of union officials, Linda Esders, Janis Bailey and Paula McDonald; Index.

O autorze

Robin Price, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, Paula McDonald, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, Janis Bailey, Griffith University, Australia and Barbara Pini, Curtin University of Technology, Australia