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What are the challenges for the current generation of graduate
millennials? The role of universities and the changing nature of
the graduate labour market are constantly in the news, but less is
known about the experiences of those going through it. This new
book traces the transition to the graduate labour market of a
cohort of middle-class and working-class young people who were
tracked through seven years of their undergraduate and
post-graduation lives. Using personal stories and voices, the book
provides fascinating insights into the group's experience of
graduate employment and how their life-course transitions are
shaped by their social backgrounds and education. Critically
evaluating current government and university policies, it shows the
attitudes and values of this generation towards their hopes and
aspirations on employment, political attitudes and cultural
practices.
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.
This book explores higher education, social class and social
mobility from the point of view of those most intimately involved:
the undergraduate students. It is based on a project which followed
a cohort of young undergraduate students at Bristol's two
universities in the UK through from their first year of study for
the following three years, when most of them were about to enter
the labour market or further study. The students were paired by
university, by subject of study and by class background, so that
the fortunes of middle-class and working-class students could be
compared. Narrative data gathered over three years are located in
the context of a hierarchical and stratified higher education
system, in order to consider the potential of higher education as a
vehicle of social mobility.
This text explores the social space occupied by both gender and
ethnicity. as recognition of the sociological importance of gender
and ethnicity has grown, so has the opportunity for exploring the
intersections between them. The volume brings together both
theoretical reflections and research in this area. For sociologists
this presents a conceptual challenge, while for the individual it
may present a series of dilemmas. These are traced out in studies
which range from Punjabi families in the UK, to Surinamese migrants
in Amsterdam, to Hindu and Muslim women and Black nurses in
Britain, the African and Asian diasporas, and gender identity in
post-Soviet Latvia.
This book explores higher education, social class and social
mobility from the point of view of those most intimately involved:
the undergraduate students. It is based on a project which followed
a cohort of young undergraduate students at Bristol's two
universities in the UK through from their first year of study for
the following three years, when most of them were about to enter
the labour market or further study. The students were paired by
university, by subject of study and by class background, so that
the fortunes of middle-class and working-class students could be
compared. Narrative data gathered over three years are located in
the context of a hierarchical and stratified higher education
system, in order to consider the potential of higher education as a
vehicle of social mobility.
In a period of rapid social and economic change, labour markets are
undergoing major transformations. This book explores the changing
fortunes of young people in Europe's flexible and precarious labour
markets and the range of policies that are being developed to help
them deal with the problems they face. number of key dilemmas for
youth policy: what help is needed for young people and their
parents in coping with lengthened transitions from school to work?
What types of training and education are most effective? Is a
switch from general to vocational education needed? Is workfare the
right solution? The contributors, who are all leading authorities
in the field, challenge the conventional wisdom in many of these
areas. people across Europe; coverage of countries in North, South
and Eastern Europe, allowing the comparison of different welfare
regimes; exploration of the impact of globalisation in terms of
polarisation between young people and of complexity and difference;
an up-to-date survey of youth welfare provision across Europe. and
youth policy, and to policy-makers and practitioners in these
fields.
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