1st Edition
The Crisis of Global Youth Unemployment
1 Global Laborscapes of Youth Unemployment Introduction 2 Youth Unemployment and Unnecessary Intergenerational Conflict 3 Precarity in Japan: After the ‘Lost Decade’ 4 "I need money, that’s the only reason I do it": Youth "volunteers", unemployment, and international action in Pakistan’s health sector 5 Dealing with Joblessness. Young people’s access to life through ‘non-work’ activities in Buenos Aires, Argentina 6 Contrasting Discourses Surrounding Gendered Representations of Young Migrants Negotiating for Work on the South African Border 7 The Rise of the J-1 Summer Work Travel Program and its Rhetorical Links U.S. Youth Unemployment 8 Youth Unemployment and Emigration in the Post-Celtic Tiger Era 9 Youth Unemployment, Neoliberal Reforms and Emigration in West-Africa 10 Sitting Amid a Pile of Jewels 11 The Youth Wage Subsidy in South Africa: A controversial proposal to respond to mass youth Unemployment12 The Right to Work and the Youth Unemployment Crisis in Spain 13 Bad Schools, No Jobs, Full Jails": Mass incarceration and as monumental incentive failure
Biography
Tamar Mayer is the Robert R. Churchill Professor of Geosciences and Director of both the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and the International and Global Studies Program at Middlebury College, USA.
Sujata Moorti is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Middlebury College, USA.
Jamie K. McCallum is an associate professor of Sociology at Middlebury College, USA.
