Getting in and getting on in the youth labour market Governing young people's employability in regional context: Governing young people's employability in regional context

This timely book provides a thorough analysis of contemporary youth employment entry route schemes in the U.K.Drawing on a Post-Foucauldian approach, the book providesa critical interrogation of the policy contexts governing a range of youth employment training schemes in four diverse regional economies within England and Scotland, including employability training, enterprise training, internships and volunteering. Supplemented with new ethnographic case study research conducted by the authors, the book’s chaptersexplore each training scheme in turn through the eyes of regional policy makers, trainers, work experience providers and young people. The authors demonstrate how neoliberal beliefs and practices, such as individualisation, responsibilisation, flexibility and resilience to risk are thoroughly implicated in youth employment policy and training practice. The book also makes obvious how the constraints faced by, and opportunities permitted to, different young people are shaped by the broad and complex interplay of national and regional historical events, economic processes and social structures.These function not only to reproduce but often to further retrench social inequalities, positions of liminality and vulnerability to risk for young people trying to get in and get on in good quality work across the different regional economies of the U.K. Front Cover Getting in and Getting on in the Youth Labour Market Copyright information Dedication Table of contents Acknowledgments One Introduction: Getting In and Getting On in the UK’s Youth Labour Market Conceptualizing youth-to-work transitions in global and national context Theoretical approach of the book The research Outline of the book Two Employability in the North East Introduction Discourses of employability: labour market readiness or processual skills development? Employability policies: the persistence of active labour market interventions Employability in the North East Case study: Bridging the Skills Divide Discussion Three Enterprise on the South Coast Introduction Discourses of enterprise: a driver of economic growth and an innovative ‘mindset’ The policy context of enterprise: a solution to youth unemployment? Enterprise on the South Coast Case study: SEU Enterprise Bootcamp Case study: Enterprising Youth programme Discussion Four Internships in London Introduction The bifurcated discourse of internships: valuable experience or cynical exploitation? Internships as policy: a contested terrain Case study: internships in London: ‘helicoptering’ or ‘no rescue’? Discussion Five Volunteering in Glasgow, Scotland Introduction From active citizenship to responsible employability: the discursive shift in youth volunteering Bringing the voluntary sector into the youth employability policy agenda: context and conundrum Employability and volunteering interventions in Glasgow Case study: Volunteering Makes Sense The classroom Volunteer tasters Discussion Six Conclusion: Inequality, Liminality and Risk Introduction Regionality and youth employability The endurance of social inequality Liminal landscapes of youth employability Risk Fit for the future? References Index Back Cover Based on up to date qualitative and ethnographic research, this book examines youth education-to-work transitions in the UK. Using the theoretical lens of a Foucauldian governmentality approach, the authors consider the 'why' and 'how' of youth employability training and demonstrate how different employability schemes planned and operationalised in diverse geographical and economic landscapes work in practice. The book examines and compares a range of employment entry route programmes and reveals the tension between employability and good quality employment, and the ways in which young people from varying social and regional backgrounds are positioned very differently within this.|Based on up to date qualitative and ethnographic research, this book examines youth education-to-work transitions in the UK. Using the theoretical lens of a Foucauldian governmentality approach, the authors consider the 'why' and 'how' of youth employability training and demonstrate how different employability schemes planned and operationalised in diverse geographical and economic landscapes work in practice. The book examines and compares a range of employment entry route programmes and reveals the tension between employability and good quality employment, and the ways in which young people from varying social and regional backgrounds are positioned very differently within this. "Based on up to date qualitative and ethnographic research, this book examines youth education-to-work transitions in the UK. Using the theoretical lens of a Foucauldian governmentality approach, the authors consider the 'why' and 'how' of youth employability training and demonstrate how different employability schemes planned and operationalised in diverse geographical and economic landscapes work in practice. The book examines and compares a range of employment entry route programmes and reveals the tension between employability and good quality employment, and the ways in which young people from varying social and regional backgrounds are positioned very differently within this."--Site web de l'éditeur Based on up to date qualitative and ethnographic research, and using a Foucauldian theoretical approach, this book examines youth education-to-work transitions in the UK and demonstrates how different employability schemes work in practice for young people from varying social and regional backgrounds.