Youth and Work in the Post-Industrial City of North America and Europe : : With an Epilogue by Saskia Sassen / / edited by Laurence Roulleau-Berger.

• Superior document: International Comparative Social Studies ; 6
• TeilnehmendeR: Roulleau-Berger, Laurence,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2003.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: International Comparative Social Studies ; 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (445 p.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

In North-American and European cities, youth live in precarious social and economic conditions. The issue of employment has become a political problem. In this volume, sociological, economical and ethnographical perspectives are used to explain ethnic discrimination, inequalities at school, unemployment and marginalization. Work remains a central value in young peoples' lives who not only are victimized but also try to find escapes. Originally in French, this extended and updated book contains contributions by Enrico Pugliese, Saskia Sassen, Min Zhou, François Dubet, Paul Anisef, Paul Axelrod, Ida Susser and others.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Laurence Roulleau-Berger -- Part 1. Inequalities and discriminations at school -- Youth experience, socialization and inequalities in France, François Dubet -- Racial Isolation, Poverty and the Limits of local Control as a means for Holding Public Schools Accountable, Pedro Noguera -- The paradox of ethnicity in French secondary schools, Jean-Paul Payet -- Re-examining standards and barriers in Quebec education, Madeleine Gauthier -- Part 2. Incertitudes and reversibilities in biographies -- Life-course experiences of the class of 73 in Canada, Paul Anisef and Paul Axelrod -- Vocational integration and relationship to work among Quebec youths without high-school diplomas, Claude -- Trottier,Mircea Vultur and Madeleine Gauthier -- 'Long term Youth' : Discontinuity in Labor Profiles of Young Spanish People in the age of informational flexibility, Juan Santos Ortega -- Explaining transitions through individualised rationality in UK, Andy Furlong, Fred Cartmel -- Part 3. Youth, employment policies and social practices -- The negotiation of vocational education qualifications: an efficient alternative to the deregulation of the youth labour market?, Eric Verdier -- Juggling Youth Unemployment and Employment Precariousness in Canada and in Quebec : from a social to a more liberal approach to employment policies?, Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay -- The younger generation of Spanish mothers in the family and in the workplace, Constanza Tobio -- Labour market policies and youth in Germany from the early 50s until today, Frank Braun -- Part 4. Work, youth, and immigration -- Regional youth of immigrant origin in Québec: innovative relationship to work, Myriam Simard -- French dilemnas in the socioeconomic adaptation of immigrant and minority youth, Claire Schiff -- Channeling Latino Youth into the Low-Wage Trap: Race and Class Polarization in California, Julio -- Cammarata -- Making It in Urban America: Challenges and Prospects for the Children of Contemporary Immigrants, Min Zhou -- Part 5. Public disqualification, commitment to and disengagement from work -- Why Do Working Youth Work Where They Do?, Stuart Tannock -- Do youth have a specific relationship to work in France?, Robert Castel -- Young people and work in Quebec: taking stock, Jacques Hamel -- Economic disqualification and social differenciation in the Post-Industrial City : youth, work and marginalization in France, Laurence Roulleau-Berger -- Part 6. Youth and marginalization in the Post-Industrial City -- The law of networks: case histories of second-generation immigrants in the worlds of trade, Michel Péraldi -- Russian Youth and Work: Social Integration and Exclusion Under Conditions of Risk, Vladimir I. Chuprov, Julia Zubok -- Youth homelessness: the street and work from exclusion to integration, Roch Hurtubise, Shirley Roy and Céline Bellot -- Labour market insecurity and criminalization of poverty, Loïc Wacquant -- Epilogue: Transversal anchoring among youth today Saskia Sassen -- Notes on Contributors.