| Youth, Jobs, and the Future: Problems and Prospects Contributor(s): Chancer, Lynn S. (Editor), Sánchez-Jankowski, Martín (Editor), Trost, Christine (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0190685905 ISBN-13: 9780190685904 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $37.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Social Science - Business & Economics | Organizational Development |
| Dewey: 331.347 |
| LCCN: 2018008314 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.00 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: While overall unemployment has declined, the unemployment rate remains nearly twice as high for young people 16 to 19 years of age and nearly three times as high for those aged 20 to 24. Rates of unemployment and underemployment are nearly two to three times higher for Black and Latino youth. In Youth, Jobs, and the Future, Lynn S. Chancer, Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, and Christine Trost have gathered a cast of well-known interdisciplinary scholars to confront the persistent issues of youth unemployment and worsening socio-economic precarity in the United States. The book explores structural and cultural causes of youth unemployment, their ramifications for both native and immigrant youth, and how middle- and working-class youth across diverse races and ethnicities are affected within and outside the legal economy. A needed contribution, this book locates solutions to youth unemployment in economic and political changes as well as changes in cultural attitudes. |