| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 291 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Making money, helping out, growing up : working children in Sweden / Tobias Samuelsson -- Young people experiencing work in a boomtown labour market / Christopher D. O'Connor -- The working experiences of student migrants in Australia and New Zealand / Danaë Anderson, Ryan Lamare and Zeenobiyah Hannif -- Men at work? Emerging nuances in young masculinities in the United Kingdom's retail sector / Steven Roberts -- Good, the bad and the ugly : the health and safety of young workers / Dana Anderson, Zeenobiyah Hannif and Felicity Lamm -- Juggling school and work and making the most of both / Margaret Vickers -- Work-study conflict or facilitation? Time use tradeoffs among employed students / Lonnie Golden and John Baffoe-Bonnie -- The occupational aspirations of adolescents : understanding the developmental context of teenagers' desires for future work roles / Sampson Lee Blair -- Youth and precarious employment in Europe / Luísa Oliveira, Helena Carvalho and Luísa Veloso -- Regulating youth work : lessons from Australia and the United Kingdom / Andrew Stewart and Natalie van der Waarden -- Employers' management of part-time student labour / Erica Smith and Wendy Patton -- Social inclusion for young people in the Nordic countries : similar but not identical / Jonas Olofsson and Eskil Wadensjö -- University student employment in Germany and Australia and its impact on attitudes toward union membership / Damian Oliver -- Declining youth membership : the views of union officials / Linda Esders, Janis Bailey and Paula McDonald |
| Summary |
This edited book brings together empirical studies of young people in paid employment from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and in different national settings. Each of the three sections of the book explores a key aspect of young people's employment: their experience of work, intersections between work and education, and the impact of other actors and institutions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Youth -- Employment.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Youth -- Employment
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Price, Robin, 1960-
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| LC no. |
2011023636 |
| ISBN |
9781409422372 |
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1409422372 |
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