Understanding youth in the global economic crisis / Alan France.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

France, Alan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth.

Youth--Social conditions.

Youth--Economic conditions.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--Social aspects.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

viii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2016.

Summary:

In this innovative book, Alan France tells the story of what impact the 2007 global crisis and the great recession that followed has had on our understandings of youth. Drawing on eight countries as case studies he undertakes an in-depth sociological analysis of historical and contemporary developments in post-16 education, training, work and welfare policy to show how the ecological landscape of youth has been affected. He maps the growing influence of neoliberalism as a political strategy in each of the countries, showing how after the crisis, it is accelerating the reconfiguration of institutions and practices that are central to the lives of the young. This book is essential reading for students of youth studies, sociology and policy seeking a greater understanding of international public and social policy in relation to the youth question. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 A political ecology of youth 13

2 The global crisis and the 'age of austerity' 37

3 Education and training: the broken promise 61

4 Education and training: from public good to private responsibility 87

5 Unemployment and work: precarious futures 109

6 NEETs and the disengaged: the 'new' youth problem 135

7 Divergence and difference: contrasting cross-national experiences of being young 165

8 Education, work and welfare in diverse settings 187

9 Youth and mobility: inequality, leaving home and the question of youth migration 217

10 After the crisis: social change and what it means to be young 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-268) and index.

ISBN:

9781447315766

1447315766

OCLC:

948835112