Youth, Unemployment and Training - A Collection of National Perspectives

Originally published in 1985, this book brings together diverse perspectives of global policy and experience concerning threatened or high levels of youth unemployment and the measures taken in the countries concerned. From the examples quoted it is obvious that there was little consensus concerning what one is led to believe life after school is about or what one would like life after school to be about, and how these expectations and aspirations may be accommodated.

List of contents

Part 1. Overview Can there be an Effective Youth Unemployment Policy? David Raffe The Youth Opportunities Programme: Requiem and Rebirth Martin Loney Part 2: Experience Factor Training or Community Scheming? Tom Logan Community Projects - Signposts to More Radical Practice Mary Hopkins Inside the Work Introduction Course Rob Fiddy WEEP - Exploitation or Advantage? Howard Williamson Part 3: Cause and Effect The Impact of Mass Unemployment on Careers Guidance in the Durham Coalfield Derek Kirton Social Behaviour and the Young Unemployed Sue Bloxham Race, Riots and Unemployment John F. Schostak Part 4: Comparatives Entrepreneurship Education and Job Creation in the United States Robert Nelson & James A. Leach Boys Off the Street and Girls in the Home: Youth Unemployment and State Intervention in Northern Ireland Teresa Rees

Product details

• Assisted by: Fiddy Rob (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 19.01.2026
• EAN: 9781032820309
• ISBN: 978-1-032-82030-9
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Work & Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Education, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Training, Labour / income economics, Sociology: work & labour, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Sociology: work and labour, Employment & Unemployment, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher