Youth and Work in the Post-Industrial City of North America and Europe : : With an Epilogue by Saskia Sassen / / edited by Laurence Roulleau-Berger.
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, unemploy...
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| Superior document: | International Comparative Social Studies ; 6 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2003. |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | International Comparative Social Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (445 p.) |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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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.