Selling Our Youth - Graduate Stories of Class, Gender and Work in Challenging Times (Paperback)

Selling Our Youth explores how the class origins of recent graduates continue to shape their labour market careers and thus reproduce class privilege and class disadvantage. It shows how class and gender combine to influence these young adults' opportunities and choices, in an era when this generation has been characterized as the first likely to end up worse off economically than their parents. The authors draw upon the landmark Paired Peers research project - an empirical longitudinal study of recent graduates in England - to explore their experiences of the contemporary globalized labour market. It demonstrates how many of these young, well qualified adults struggle to achieve stable and rewarding employment in the context of the overstocked graduate supply, precarious work and exploitative working conditions. Government policies of austerity, which were in place when these young people graduated in 2013, meant this generation faced the challenges of a lower wage economy and a housing crisis. The subsequent arrival of Covid-19 and its disastrous impacts on the local and global economy are making these challenges even tougher. The authors further explore the way differences of class and gender impact upon graduate trajectories.

General

Imprint:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Great Debates in Higher Education
Release date:	June 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Harriet Bradley • Richard Waller • Laura Bentley
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-80117-239-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Universities / polytechnics
LSN:	1-80117-239-0
Barcode:	9781801172394

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