Responses to Youth Unemployment in the 1930s and the 1980s
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Release : 1986
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Release : 1986
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Author : Paul Atkinson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000629953
In the early 1980s, against the background of chronic unemployment in Britain, the particular plight of young people had come to be identified as a subject for special concern. Anxieties were expressed, as they were in the 1930s, as a twin concern for a waste of the nation’s resources and for the demoralization of youth, leading potentially to anti-social behaviour. Originally published in 1982, this volume of essays identifies a number of key issues in the pattern of state response to youth unemployment which had evolved in the inter-war and post-war periods. The contributors discuss a number of related themes, such as how the problem has been defined and created as a kind of ‘moral panic’, and how contemporary measures recapitulate the rhetoric and policies of pre-war interventions. They examine the relationship between youth unemployment measures and the education sector, the responses of the trade unions, and also consider how young people themselves respond to special programmes. A critical assessment is made of the further education elements in the special measures: in particular, the question is asked: do these young people need ‘social and life skills’ training? The book charts the changing nature of the state response to youth unemployment since 1974, and stresses throughout the inappropriate nature of ‘temporary’ amelioration of a long-term, even permanent, problem.
Author : Bob Tyrrell
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File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 1981
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Release : 1978
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Author : Ray C. Rist
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 19,13 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : MICHAEL H.. ULLAH BANKS (PHILIP.)
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 2024-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781032807041
Originally published in 1988, this book examines the psychological consequence of prolonged periods of joblessness among a national cohort of 16-19 year olds. It places the problem in a historical context and then examines evidence for the effect of unemployment on the motivation to work, psychological health, and early careers.
Author : Christine Griffin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 25,36 MB
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745666744
Representations of Youth examines the various constructions of 'youth' and 'adolescence' in recent British and North American research. Mainstream and radical approaches have presented a series of 'crises' about young people in relation to, among other things, unemployment, 'teenage pregnancy' and 'delinquency'. This book considers research in psychology, sociology, education, criminology and cultural studies in order to assess these accounts. The author offers a critical review of a wide range of findings about young people in areas as diverse as education and training, leisure, family life and sexuality. She shows that whilst youth research texts do not reflect young people's experiences in any straightforward manner, they do indicate the various complex and contradictory ways in which 'youth', 'adolescence' and specific groups of young people are represented in contemporary western societies. In so arguing, she presents new terms for thinking about the position of young people today. This is an important new text accessibly written for students of sociology, social psychology and contemporary culture in both Britain and the USA. It will also be of great interest to social science researchers in a range of other disciplines.
Author : Edmund Smith
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Page : 258 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 1983
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Author : Diana Encel
Publisher : Social Welfare Research Centre University of New South Wales
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Catherine Blakers
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Page : 584 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Study of the position of young people in work and education in the changing Australia of the 1980s. Argues that the difficulties confronting the transition from education to work are caused by the fact that society itself is in transition rather than in deficiencies in young people themselves.