Full Description
Long-running trends towards increasing inequality between the rich and poor across Europe have been exacerbated by the 2008 global financial crisis and its aftermath. As employment opportunities for young people diminish and as the welfare state is pulled back, pathways to adulthood change and become more difficult to navigate.
Transitions to Adulthood Through Recession consists of a collection of papers by researchers from Britain, Norway, Germany, Portugal, Italy and Greece, locating young people's transitions to adulthood in their national social, economic and political contexts. It explores young adulthood with reference to generational continuity and change and intergenerational support. With a cross-national comparative framework, this volume highlights the importance of variations in structural contexts for young people's transitions.
Bringing together authors across sub-disciplines such as the sociology of youth, family and kinship, class and inequality and life-course studies, Transitions to Adulthood Through Recession will appeal to academic social scientists as well as final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in fields such as political science, sociology, youth studies, social policy, anthropology and psychology; and a wider public readership.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Chapter 1 Understanding Youth Transitions in Difficult Times
Sarah Irwin, Ann Nilsen
Chapter 2 Youth research meets life course terminology: the transition paradigm revisited
Ken Roberts
Chapter 3 Transitions from school to work in Norway and Britain among three family generations of working class men
Julia Brannen, Kristoffer Chelsom Vogt, Ann Nilsen, Abigail Knight
Chapter 4 How parents see their children's future: education, work and social change in England
Sarah Irwin
Chapter 5 Biography, History and Place: Understanding Youth Transitions in Teesside
Robert MacDonald, Tracy Shildrick
Chapter 6 Social inequality and the transition to education and training: the significance of family background in Germany
Birgit Jentsch, Herwig Reiter
Chapter 7 Youth transitions and generations in Portugal: examining change between baby-boomers and millennials
Nuno Almeida Alves
Chapter 8 Young people and housing transitions: the role of intergenerational support in an Italian working class context
Elena Mattioli, Nicola De Luigi
Chapter 9 Young people, transition to adulthood and recession in Greece: In search of a better future
Alexandros Sakellariou, Alexandra Koronaiou
Chapter 10 Kinship, community and the transition to adulthood - geographical differences and recent changes in European society
Patrick Heady
