Selling our youth : graduate stories of class, gender and work in challenging times

Selling Our Youth explores how the class origins of recent graduates continue to shape their labour market careers and thus reproduce class privilege and class disadvantage. It shows how class and gender combine to influence these young adults' opportunities and choices, in an era when this gen...

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Main Authors Bradley, Harriet (Author), Waller, Richard (Author), Bentley, Laura (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
SeriesGreat debates in higher education.
Subjects
College graduates > Employment > Great Britain.
Social classes > Great Britain.
Labor market > Social aspects > Great Britain.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781801172387
DOI10.1108/9781801172363
Physical Description1 online resource (264 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Young Graduates' Employment Trajectories in Context
  • Chapter 2. The Paired Peers Project and its Findings
  • Chapter 3. Reaching for the Top: Middle-Class Men's Work Stories
  • Chapter 4. Slow Train to the Top? Middle-class Women's Narratives of Building a Career
  • Chapter 5. Making their Way: Working-Class Men's Work Stories
  • Chapter 6. Confronting Double Disadvantage: Working-class Women
  • Chapter 7. Conclusions.

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