Young Europeans, Work and Family (Routledge Esa Studies in European Societies)

based On Qualitative Research Carried Out With Young People Aged From 18 To 30 In Five European Countries, young Europeans, Work And Family Examines Young People's Pathways To Adulthood, And Their Perspectives On Their Future Work And Family Lives. this Enlightening Book Investigates Young People From A Range Of Social Classes And At Various Phases In Their Life: In Training, In Higher Education, In Insecure Work And In Steady Jobs, Including High- And Low-status Employment. The Study Was Carried Out By A Cross-disciplinary Team Of Researchers From Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Sweden And The Uk, Countries That Represent A Variety Of Economic Profiles And Welfare State Regimes. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Notes on contributors......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 10 Introduction......Page 12 Qualitative methodology in cross-national research......Page 22 Theorising the individual structure dynamic......Page 41 Young people's perspectives on the future......Page 59 Into work: job insecurity and changing psychological contracts......Page 80 Young people's awareness of gendered realities......Page 100 Imagining parenthood and employment: connected or disconnected worlds?......Page 127 Into parenthood: young people's sense of entitlement to support for the reconciliation of employment and family life......Page 151 'Most choices involve money': different pathways to adulthood......Page 173 Appendix I: Tables......Page 196 Appendix II: Focus-group guidelines......Page 200 Index......Page 204 This source shows how rapid global economic and employment change, together with shifts in family structure and the gendering of work and home life, shape young people's orientations to work, the family and their combination Based on qualitative research with young people aged from 18 to 30 in five European countries, this book examines young peoples pathways to adulthood, and their perspectives on their future work and family lives