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 operationalised in diverse geographical and economic landscapes work in practice. The book examines and compares a range of employment entry route progra...
Inhoudsopgave
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 Lond...
Over de auteur
Rachel J. Wilde is a social anthropologist, lecturer in education at University College London and researches on work, organisations and young people.