Full Description
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 operationalized 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.
Contents
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.
