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Youth in transition: Eastern Europe and the West
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In this article, Roberts is well known for his research and writing in the fields of youth studies, lei... and children's mental health, and is a well-known authority in the UK.Abstract:
by Ken Roberts, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2009, 243 pp., £19.99 (paperback), ISBN 978‐0‐230‐21444‐6 Professor Ken Roberts is well known for his research and writing in the fields of youth studies, lei...read more
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Youth transitions, unemployment and underemployment: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose?
TL;DR: In this article, a long-term engagement in youth research, from the early 1980s to now, reflects on how youth transitions to the labour market and the way that they are thought about in youth studies and youth policy have changed and stayed the same over the past 30 years.
Journal ArticleDOI
Towards a new political economy of youth
TL;DR: The roots of the political-economy-of-youth perspective can be traced to the neo-Marxist attempts to account for the youth movements and countercultures of the 1960s and to argue that youth constitute a potentially revolutionary "class" as mentioned in this paper.
Journal ArticleDOI
The end of the long baby-boomer generation
TL;DR: This paper argued that the post-war baby boomers led a long generation in which successive cohorts achieved, and came to expect, continuous improvement in living standards and argued that current cohorts of young people in all Western countries will become the vanguard of a successor generation, distinguished by a different youth life stage and also by different characteristic experience of adulthood and, eventually, a different politics than the generation's predecessor.
Book
Human Development in the Life Course: Melodies of Living
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a model of time for the life course and a melody of life as a melody, which they describe as "playing while being serious" and "playing under the influence".
Book
Lost Generation?: New strategies for youth and education
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that many young people know perfectly well where they are but are "stuck" in a "lost generation" and they are anxious to enter employment, repay debts and move on with their lives.