Getting In and Getting On in the Youth Labour Market
Governing Young People’s Employability in Regional Context
By Pauline Leonard and Rachel Wilde
Published
Oct 29, 2019Page count
200 pagesISBN
978-1529202298Dimensions
198 x 129 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Oct 29, 2019Page count
200 pagesISBN
978-1529202311Imprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Oct 29, 2019Page count
200 pagesISBN
978-1529202311Imprint
Bristol University Press
Getting In and Getting On in the Youth Labour Market
Based on up to date qualitative and ethnographic research, this book examines youth education-to-work transitions in the UK. Using the theoretical lens of a Foucauldian governmentality approach, the authors consider the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of youth employability training and demonstrate how different employability schemes planned and operationalised in diverse geographical and economic landscapes work in practice. The book examines and compares a range of employment entry route programmes and reveals the tension between employability and good quality employment, and the ways in which young people from varying social and regional backgrounds are positioned very differently within this.
"The book takes an impressive holistic approach to employability programmes, from young people and employers perspectives to how geography and class influence outcomes. It is a fascinating and enjoyable read!" Emily Rainsford, Newcastle University
“Leonard and Wilde have produced a pathbreaking and impressively succinct text, regarding regional and national youth labour market concerns. [...] [They] have crafted and artfully synthesised rich in-depth ethnographic research, concerning dominant regional employability programmes in England
and Scotland.” Journal of Applied Youth Studies
Pauline Leonard is Professor of Sociology, University of Southampton. She has longstanding research interests in diversity and work, and how gender, race, class and age impact careers and opportunities.
Rachel J. Wilde is a social anthropologist, lecturer in education at University College London and researches on work, organizations and young people.
Introduction: Getting In and Getting On in the U.K.’s Youth Labour Market;
Employability in the North East;
Enterprise on the South Coast;
Internships in London;
Volunteering in Glasgow, Scotland;
Conclusion: Getting In and Getting On: Inequality, liminality and risk.
