dealing with risk, inequality and precarity in times of crisis
edited by Lorenza Antonucci, Myra Hamilton, Steven Roberts.
Basingstoke
Palgrave Macmillan
2014
xvii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Work and welfare in Europe.
Introduction : Young people and social policy in Europe : past and present / Myra Hamilton, Lorenza Antonucci and Steven Roberts --;Constructing a theory of youth and social policy / Lorenza Antonucci, Myra Hamilton and Steven Roberts --;The complex nature of youth poverty and deprivation in Europe / Eldin Fahmy --;At risk of deskilling and trapped by passion : a picture of precarious highly educated young workers in Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom / Annalisa Murgia and Barbara Poggio --;Social exclusion, risk, and the UK youth labour market / Clive Sealey --;Young people at work in Greece before and after the Crisis / Lefteris Kretsos --;The impacts of employment instability on transitions to adulthood : the Mileuristas young adult in Spain / Alessandro Gentile --;Labour market risks and sources of welfare among European youth in times of crisis / Lara Maestripieri and Stefania Sabatinelli --;Have Nordic welfare regimes adapted to changes in transitions to adulthood? Unemployment insurance and social assistance among young people in the Nordic welfare states / Anna Angelin, Timo Kauppinen, Thomas Lorentzen, Olof Bäckman, Pasi Moisio, Espen Dahl and Tapio Salonen --;The dualisation of social policies towards young people in France : between familism and activation / Tom Chevalier and Bruno Palier --;Young adults' transitions to residential independence in the UK : the role of social and housing policy / Ann Berrington and Juliet Stone --;Life-course policy and the transition from school to work in Germany / Walter R. Heinz --;Youth transitions, precarity and inequality and the future of social policy in Europe / Lorenza Antonucci and Myra Hamilton.
This edited collection provides the first in-depth analysis of social policies and the risks faced by young people. The book explores the effects of both the economic crisis and austerity policies on the lives of young Europeans, examining both the precarity of youth transitions, and the function of welfare state policies.
Europe -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Europe -- Social policy -- 21st century.
Youth -- Europe -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
edited by Lorenza Antonucci, Myra Hamilton, Steven Roberts.