1st Edition
Transitions to Adulthood Through Recession Youth and Inequality in a European Comparative Perspective
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Chapter 1 Understanding Youth Transitions in Difficult Times
Sarah Irwin, Ann Nilsen
Chapter 2 Youth research meets life course terminology: the transition paradigm revisited
Ken Roberts
Chapter 3 Transitions from school to work in Norway and Britain among three family generations of working class men
Julia Brannen, Kristoffer Chelsom Vogt, Ann Nilsen, Abigail Knight
Chapter 4 How parents see their children’s future: education, work and social change in England
Sarah Irwin
Chapter 5 Biography, History and Place: Understanding Youth Transitions in Teesside
Robert MacDonald, Tracy Shildrick
Chapter 6 Social inequality and the transition to education and training: the significance of family background in Germany
Birgit Jentsch, Herwig Reiter
Chapter 7 Youth transitions and generations in Portugal: examining change between baby-boomers and millennials
Nuno Almeida Alves
Chapter 8 Young people and housing transitions: the role of intergenerational support in an Italian working class context
Elena Mattioli, Nicola De Luigi
Chapter 9 Young people, transition to adulthood and recession in Greece: In search of a better future
Alexandros Sakellariou, Alexandra Koronaiou
Chapter 10 Kinship, community and the transition to adulthood – geographical differences and recent changes in European society
Patrick Heady
Biography
Sarah Irwin is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK.
Ann Nilsen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Against the background of the global financial crisis which has left a legacy of political turmoil and a populist surge across Europe, this book could not be more timely. The contributors offer the reader a comparative understanding of youth inequalities in difficult times. Labour market, family transitions and intergenerational relationships are described and explained from a life course perspective and firmly located in an era of increasing social inequality. The editors are to be commended on pulling together such an excellent collection.
Fiona Devine, Head of Alliance Manchester Business School and Professor of Sociology at The University of Manchester, UK
Social change is complicated! This book brilliantly shows and explains how a new generation of young Europeans are living through the consequences of the global financial crisis, recalibrating their expectations and optimising their resources in ways that compound inequality. Empirically robust, theoretically nuanced and rooted in a range of European contexts, this is state of the art youth studies, providing a sense of how we got into this situation, offering the starting point for navigating a more socially just future.
Rachel Thomson, Professor of Childhood & Youth Studies, University of Sussex, UK
