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.
Author(s): Julia Brannen (Editor), Susan Lewis (Editor), Anne Nilsen (Editor)
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 208
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
