Crisis of Global Youth Unemployment

<p>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 <em>laborscape</em>. This concept recognizes that although youth unemployment is not consistent across the world it is a coherent problem in the global political economy.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p>