Youth, Jobs and the Future: Problems and Prospects features original essays by well-known sociologists, economists, educators, and labor leaders that investigate the multiple structural and cultural dimensions of youth unemployment and worsening socio-economic precarity. The volume offers a variety of analyses and suggestions for redressing the problem going forward including better school-to-work transitions, shorter hours, shared work, full employment, andbasic income.
Youth, Jobs and the Future: Problems and Prospects features original essays by well-known sociologists, economists, educators, and labor leaders that investigate the multiple structural and cultural dimensions of youth unemployment and worsening socio-economic precarity. The volume offers a variety of analyses and suggestions for redressing the problem going forward including better school-to-work transitions, shorter hours, shared work, full employment, andbasic income.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Lynn S. Chancer is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Executive Officer of the Sociology Department at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author or co-editor of five volumes including Sadomasochism in Everyday Life (Rutgers University Press, 1992), Reconcilable Differences: Confronting Beauty, Pornography and the Future of Feminism (University of California Press, 1998), High-Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes (University of Chicago Press, 2005), and (with Beverly Watkins), Gender, Race and Class: An Overview (Blackwell, 2005). Martín Sánchez-Jankowski is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues at the University of California, Berkeley. His areas of research are sociology of poverty, social violence, ethnic and racial relations and youth. He is the author of five books and co-editor of two. Christine Trost is Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues at the University of California at Berkeley. Trained as a political scientist (PhD Berkeley), she has written journal articles and edited volumes on topics related to political ethics, campaign practices, youth civic and political engagement, and the rise of the Tea Party.
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* Introduction * Lynn Chancer, Martín Sánchez-Jankowski and Christine Trost * PART ONE: SETTING THE STAGE: TRENDS AND MACROCONTEXTS * 1. The Employment Patterns of Young Adults, 1989-2014 * Mike Hout * 2. Precarious Work and Young Workers in the U.S. * Arne Kalleberg * PART TWO: PRIVILEGE AND DISADVANTAGE IN THE YOUTH LABOR MARKET * 3. Take this Job and Love It? The Millennial Work Ethic and the Politics of Getting Back to Work * Jamie K. McCallum * 4. Real Jobs and Redshirting: Job Seeking Strategies for College-Educated Youth * Maria Kefalas and Patrick Carr * 5. Part-time Employment and Aesthetic Labor among Middle-Class Youth * Yasemin Besen-Cassino * PART THREE: SOCIOECONOMIC PRECARITY AND YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT * 6. The Children of Low-status Immigrants and Youth Unemployment in the U.S. and Western Europe * Richard Alba and Nancy Foner * 7. Youth Unemployment and the Illicit Economy * Martín Sánchez-Jankowski * 8. Effects of Incarceration on Labor Market Outcomes among Young Adults * David J. Harding, Anh P. Nguyen, Jeffrey D. Morenoff, Shawn D. Bushway * PART FOUR: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? * 9. Transforming High School and Addressing the Challenge of America's Competitiveness * Stanley Litow and Grace Suh * 10. Time's Up! Shorter Hours, Public Policy, and Time Flexibility as an Antidote to Youth Unemployment * Katherine Eva Maich, Jamie K. McCallum, Ari Grant-Sasson * 11. Youth Prospects and the Case for a Universal Basic Income * Sarah Reibstein and Andy Stern * 12. Jobs for Young Americans: The Enduring Case for Full Employment * Robert Kuttner * Index
* Introduction * Lynn Chancer, Martín Sánchez-Jankowski and Christine Trost * PART ONE: SETTING THE STAGE: TRENDS AND MACROCONTEXTS * 1. The Employment Patterns of Young Adults, 1989-2014 * Mike Hout * 2. Precarious Work and Young Workers in the U.S. * Arne Kalleberg * PART TWO: PRIVILEGE AND DISADVANTAGE IN THE YOUTH LABOR MARKET * 3. Take this Job and Love It? The Millennial Work Ethic and the Politics of Getting Back to Work * Jamie K. McCallum * 4. Real Jobs and Redshirting: Job Seeking Strategies for College-Educated Youth * Maria Kefalas and Patrick Carr * 5. Part-time Employment and Aesthetic Labor among Middle-Class Youth * Yasemin Besen-Cassino * PART THREE: SOCIOECONOMIC PRECARITY AND YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT * 6. The Children of Low-status Immigrants and Youth Unemployment in the U.S. and Western Europe * Richard Alba and Nancy Foner * 7. Youth Unemployment and the Illicit Economy * Martín Sánchez-Jankowski * 8. Effects of Incarceration on Labor Market Outcomes among Young Adults * David J. Harding, Anh P. Nguyen, Jeffrey D. Morenoff, Shawn D. Bushway * PART FOUR: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? * 9. Transforming High School and Addressing the Challenge of America's Competitiveness * Stanley Litow and Grace Suh * 10. Time's Up! Shorter Hours, Public Policy, and Time Flexibility as an Antidote to Youth Unemployment * Katherine Eva Maich, Jamie K. McCallum, Ari Grant-Sasson * 11. Youth Prospects and the Case for a Universal Basic Income * Sarah Reibstein and Andy Stern * 12. Jobs for Young Americans: The Enduring Case for Full Employment * Robert Kuttner * Index
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