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The Crisis of Global Youth Unemployment, PDF eBook

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Since the economic and financial crisis of 2008, the proportion of unemployed young people has exceeded any other group of unemployed adults.

This phenomenon marks the emergence of a laborscape.

This concept recognizes that, although youth unemployment is not consistent across the world, it is a coherent problem in the global political economy. This book examines this crisis of youth unemployment, drawing on international case studies.

It is organized around four key dimensions of the crisis: precarity, flexibility, migration, and policy responses.

With contributions from leading experts in the field, the chapters offer a dynamic portrait of unemployment and how this is being challenged through new modes of resistance.

This book provides cross-national comparisons, both ethnographic and quantitative, to explore the contours of this laborscape on the global, national, and local scales.

Throughout these varied case studies is a common narrative from young workers, families, students, volunteers, and activists facing a new and growing problem. This book will be an imperative resource for students and researchers looking at the sociology of globalization, global political economy, labor markets, and economic geography.

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