This book investigates how policy, family background, social class, gender and ethnicity influence young people’s post-16 and post-18 employment and education

Do government-sponsored youth employment programs actually help? Between 1978 and 1981, the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) funded exten

Examines the "learning landscape" currently available to American adolescents, arguing that we need to expand, enrich, and diversify the learning opportunities

In Massachusetts, a 12-year-old girl delivering newspapers is killed when a car strikes her bicycle. In Los Angeles, a 14-year-old boy repeatedly falls asleep i

This book provides an inclusive and incisive analysis of the experiences of working-class young people in education. While there is an established literature on