1st Edition

Decent Work, Inclusion and Sustainability

Edited By Deirdre Hughes, Maria Eduarda-Duarte Copyright 2024
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

This content-rich and inspirational book offers complementary theoretical and practical perspectives from detailed research and analysis of decent work, inclusion and sustainability issues in Brazil, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Singapore, the United Kingdom, the United States and West Africa. In today’s turbulent world marked by risk and uncertainty, the values of decent work,... Read more

Introduction: Decent work, inclusion and sustainability

Deirdre Hughes and Maria Eduarda-Duarte

 

PART I

 

1. Integrating discursive validation in career counselling: an emancipatory strategy to foster decent working trajectories and social justice

Marcel Afonso Ribeiro

 

2. Revitalising decent work through inclusion: toward relational understanding and action

Richard A. Young, José Domene, L. Alejandra Botia, Mindy Ming-Jung Chiang, Matthew R Gendron and Kesha Pradhan

 

3. Two-chair dialogue: an emotion-focused technique applied to career counselling

Paulo Miguel Cardoso and Maria Eduarda-Duarte

 

4. Efficacy of a group career construction intervention with urban youth of colour

Michael C. Cadaret and Paul J. Hartung

 

5. The enabling role of employment guidance in contemporary public employment services: A work-first to life-first typology

Nuala Whelan, Mary p. Murphy and Michale McGann

 

6. Building better futures: decent work, inclusion and careers support services in the UK

Deirdre Hughes, Chris Warhurst, Emma Benger and Mandy Ifans

 

PART II

 

7. Rethinking the professionalism of career counsellors in the face of increasing vulnerability among young people linked to the crises of the Capitalocene

Valerie Cohen-Scali

 

8. Improving career decision making of highly skilled workers: designing interventions for the unemployed and discouraged

James P. Sampson and Ruby Toh

 

9. Young workers without formal qualifications: experience of work and connections to career adaptability and decent work

Guðbjörg Vilhjálmsdóttir

 

10. Work volition, decent work, and work fulfilment, in the formal and informal economy in Burkina Faso

Jérôme Rossier and Abdoulaye Ouedraogo

 

11. The role of career adaptability and future orientation on future goals in refugees

Maria Cristina Ginevra, Ilaria Di Maggio, Sara Santilli and Laura Nota

 

12. Labour market integration of young refugees and asylum seekers: a look at perceived barriers and resources

Shagini Udayar, Laurence Fedrigo, Federico Durante, Eva Clot-Siegrist and Jonas Masdonati

 

13. Enhancing agency in career development via cognitive information processing theory

Seth C. W. Hayden, Debra S. Osborn, Carley Peace and Robert Lange

 

Conclusion

Deirdre Hughes and Maria Eduarda-Duarte

Biography

Deirdre Hughes is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick's Institute for Employment Research (IER) in Coventry, England. She is an international careers practitioner, researcher, trainer, and senior policy adviser. For seven years, she led and co-edited an international series of Special Issue Journals on behalf of the British Journal for Guidance & Counselling. In 2012, she was awarded a Queen’s Honorary Medal (2012) for her services to lifelong guidance.

Maria Eduarda-Duarte is Emeritus Professor at the University of Lisbon's Faculty of Psychology, Portugal,where earlier she directed the Master Course in Psychology of Human Resources, Work, and Organizations. Her professional interests include career psychology theory and research, with special emphasis on issues relevant to adults and the world of work. She is a former President of the UNESCO Chair for Lifelong Guidance and Counselling at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.