
Training without Jobs
New Deals and Broken Promises
Dan Finn(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 22. April 1987
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-333-36508-3 (ISBN)
Description
For more than a century the state has prohibited children from obtaining full time employment and it has assumed increasing control over the conditions awaiting school leavers in the labour market. This book traces these developments from the introduction of compulsory schooling to the creating of the two year Youth Training Scheme. It draws on a wealth of empirical studies of young people at school and at work both to illustrate how raising the school leaving age to 16 failed to deliver what it promised, and to reveal how the Conservative government elected in 1979 redefined the relationship between education, training and work. Through a detailed critique of the development and politics of the Manpower Services Commission, the book shows how the power of the state has been used to manage and contain the political crisis of mass unemployment. It also reveals, however, that young people are unlikely to accept meekly the new social and economic status that the government has created for them. Many have little confidence in the cynical offers of Training Without Jobs.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 141 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-36508-3 (9780333365083)
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Content
List of Tables - List of Statutes - List of Abbreviations - Foreword - Introduction: New Deals and Broken Promises - 'Secondary Education for All': Raising the School Leaving Age and Juvenile Unemployment Between the Wars - Raising the School Leaving Age to Sixteen: School and Work in the 1960s - The Impact of RSLA: Growing Up and Leaving School - The Great Debate on Education, Youth Unemployment and the MSC - Mrs Thatcher's U-turn? From Youth Opportunities to Youth Training - A New Deal for the Young Working Class? The New Vocationalism and an Employer-led YTS - Conclusion: Training Without Jobs - Notes - Bibliography - Index