Getting in and getting on in the youth labour market : governing young peoples employability in regional context /

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Based on up-to-date qualitative and ethnographic research, and using a Foucauldian theoretical approach, this book examines youth education-to-work transitions in the UK and demonstrates how different employability schemes work in practice for young people from varying social and regional background...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Leonard, Pauline, 1957- (Autor), Wilde, Rachel J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Bristol University Press, 2019.
Colección:Bristol shorts research.
Temas:
School-to-work transition > Great Britain.
Young adults > Employment > Great Britain.
Employability > Great Britain.
Transition école-travail > Grande-Bretagne.
Jeunes adultes > Travail > Grande-Bretagne.
Employabilité > Grande-Bretagne.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor.
Employability
School-to-work transition
Young adults > Employment
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Getting in and Getting on in the Youth Labour Market; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; One Introduction: Getting In and Getting On in the UK's Youth Labour Market; Conceptualizing youth-to-work transitions in global and national context; Theoretical approach of the book; The research; Outline of the book; Two Employability in the North East; Introduction; Discourses of employability: labour market readiness or processual skills development?; Employability policies: the persistence of active labour market interventions
  • Employability in the North EastCase study: Bridging the Skills Divide; Discussion; Three Enterprise on the South Coast; Introduction; Discourses of enterprise: a driver of economic growth and an innovative 'mindset'; The policy context of enterprise: a solution to youth unemployment?; Enterprise on the South Coast; Case study: SEU Enterprise Bootcamp; Case study: Enterprising Youth programme; Discussion; Four Internships in London; Introduction; The bifurcated discourse of internships: valuable experience or cynical exploitation?; Internships as policy: a contested terrain
  • Case study: internships in London: 'helicoptering' or 'no rescue'?Discussion; Five Volunteering in Glasgow, Scotland; Introduction; From active citizenship to responsible employability: the discursive shift in youth volunteering; Bringing the voluntary sector into the youth employability policy agenda: context and conundrum; Employability and volunteering interventions in Glasgow; Case study: Volunteering Makes Sense; The classroom; Volunteer tasters; Discussion; Six Conclusion: Inequality, Liminality and Risk; Introduction; Regionality and youth employability
  • The endurance of social inequalityLiminal landscapes of youth employability; Risk; Fit for the future?; References; Index; Back Cover

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