Youth and the Condition of Britain
Author : John Davis
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,30 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
Youthquake 2017
Author : James Sloam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 38,42 MB
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319974696
Book Description
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book investigates the reasons behind the 2017 youthquake – which saw the highest rate of youth turnout in a quarter of a century, and an unprecedented gap in youth support for Labour over the Conservative Party – from both a comparative and a theoretical perspective. It compares youth turnout and party allegiance over time and traces changes in youth political participation in the UK since the onset of the 2008 global financial crisis – from austerity, to the 2016 EU referendum, to the rise of Corbyn – up until the June 2017 General Election. The book identifies the rise of cosmopolitan values and left-leaning attitudes amongst Young Millennials, particularly students and young women. The situation in the UK is also contrasted with developments in youth participation in other established democracies, including the youthquakes inspired by Obama in the US (2008) and Trudeau in Canada (2015).
London’s Working-Class Youth and the Making of Post-Victorian Britain, 1958–1971
Author : Felix Fuhg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 17,68 MB
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 3030689689
Book Description
This book examines the emergence of modern working-class youth culture through the perspective of an urban history of post-war Britain, with a particular focus on the influence of young people and their culture on Britain’s self-image as a country emerging from the constraints of its post-Victorian, imperial past. Each section of the book – Society, City, Pop, and Space – considers in detail the ways in which working-class youth culture corresponded with a fast-changing metropolitan and urban society in the years following the decline of the British Empire. Was teenage culture rooted in the urban experience and the transformation of working-class neighbourhoods? Did youth subcultures emerge simply as a reaction to Britain's changing racial demographic? To what extent did leisure venues and institutions function as laboratories for a developing British pop culture, which ultimately helped Britain re-establish its prominence on the world stage? These questions and more are answered in this book.
Youth in Britain
Author : William Osgerby
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 1998-02-11
Category :
ISBN : 9780631194774
Book Description
This is a lively account of post-war British youth, combining history, theory and debate. It examines the emergence of youth as a social category which came to embody the hopes and fears of British society in the decades after 1945.
Making Youth: A History of Youth in Modern Britain
Author : Melanie Tebbutt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1137604158
Book Description
This new study explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Urbanisation and industrialisation brought challenges that altered how young people were both perceived and understood. As adults found it difficult to comprehend the rapidity of societal change, focus on the young intensified, and they became a symbol of uncertainty about the future. Highlighting both change and striking continuity, Melanie Tebbutt traces the origins and development of key themes and debates in the history of modern British youth. Current issues such as the ageing of western societies, high levels of youth unemployment and the potential for social and political unrest make this a timely study.
Youth Culture in Modern Britain, c.1920-c.1970
Author : David Fowler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1137045701
Book Description
This book traces the history of youth culture from its origins among the student communities of inter-war Britain to the more familiar world of youth communities and pop culture. Grounded in extensive original research, it explores the individuals, institutions and ideas that have shaped youth culture over much of the twentieth century.
Youth Marginality in Britain
Author : Blackman, Shane
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1447330544
Book Description
Though they tend to get less attention than other disadvantaged groups, huge numbers of young people today in Britain are marginalized, experiencing isolation, social hardship, gender and ethnic discrimination, and overall social stigma--a situation that has been exacerbated by the combination of austerity measures and a weak job market that has all too often cut young people off from support and employment. This book sets that marginalization in the broader context of austerity, poverty, and inequality to show both recent changes and long-term continuity in the position of young people, with a special emphasis on the voice of youth and the forms of resistance they adopt.
Youth and Employment in Modern Britain
Author : Kenneth Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Book Description
This textbook aims to provide the student with a comprehensive and accessible overview of the role and importance of youth and employment in Britain today.
Britain and European Unity, 1945-1992
Author : John W. Young
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 36,32 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
Youth, The `Underclass' and Social Exclusion
Author : Robert MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 100015887X
Book Description
The idea that Britain, the US and other western societies are witnessing the rise of an underclass of people at the bottom of the social heap, structurally and culturally distinct from traditional patterns of `decent' working-class life, has become increasingly popular in the 1990s. Anti-work, anti-social, and welfare dependent cultures are said to typify this new `dangerous class' and `dangerous youth' are taken as the prime subjects of underclass theories. Debates about the family and single-parenthood, about crime and about unemployment and welfare reforms have all become embroiled in underclass theories which, whilst highly controversial, have had remarkable influence on the politics and policies of governments in Britain and the US, Youth, the `Underclass' and Social Exclusion constitutes the first concerted attempt to grapple with the underclass idea in relation to contemporary youth. It focuses upon unemployment, training, the labour market, crime, homelessness, and parenting and will be essential reading for students of social policy, sociology and criminology.
