Sarah IrwinAnn Nilsen - Transitions to Adulthood Through Recession

Against the background of the global financial crisis which has left a legacy of political turmoil and a populist surge across Europe, this book could not be more timely. The contributors offer the reader a comparative understanding of youth inequalities in difficult times. Labour market, family transitions and intergenerational relationships are described and explained from a life course perspective and firmly located in an era of increasing social inequality. The editors are to be commended on pulling together such an excellent collection.

Fiona Devine, Head of Alliance Manchester Business School and Professor of Sociology at The University of Manchester, UK

Social change is complicated! This book brilliantly shows and explains how a new generation of young Europeans are living through the consequences of the global financial crisis, recalibrating their expectations and optimising their resources in ways that compound inequality. Empirically robust, theoretically nuanced and rooted in a range of European contexts, this is state of the art youth studies, providing a sense of how we got into this situation, offering the starting point for navigating a more socially just future.

Rachel Thomson, Professor of Childhood & Youth Studies, University of Sussex, UK

Long-running trends towards increasing inequality between the rich and poor across Europe have been exacerbated by the 2008 global financial crisis and its aftermath. As employment opportunities for young people diminish and as the welfare state is pulled back, pathways to adulthood change and become more difficult to navigate.

Transitions to Adulthood Through Recession consists of a collection of papers by researchers from Britain, Norway, Germany, Portugal, Italy and Greece, locating young peoples transitions to adulthood in their national social, economic and political contexts. It explores young adulthood with reference to generational continuity and change and intergenerational support. With a cross-national comparative framework, this volume highlights the importance of variations in structural contexts for young peoples transitions.

Bringing together authors across sub-disciplines such as the sociology of youth, family and kinship, class and inequality and life-course studies, Transitions to Adulthood Through Recession will appeal to academic social scientists as well as final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in fields such as political science, sociology, youth studies, social policy, anthropology and psychology; and a wider public readership.

Sarah Irwin is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK.

Ann Nilsen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Youth, Young Adulthood and Society

Series editor: Andy Furlong, University of Glasgow, UK

The Youth, Young Adulthood and Society series brings together social scientists from many disciplines to present research monographs and collections, seeking to further research into youth in our changing societies around the world today. The books in this series advance the field of youth studies by presenting original, exciting research, with strongly theoretically- and empirically-grounded analysis.

For a full list of titles in this series, please visit https://www.routledge.com/Youth-Young-Adulthood-and-Society/book-series/YYAS

Published:

Youth, Class and Everyday Struggles

Steven Threadgold

Youth Homelessness and Survival Sex

Intimate Relationships and Gendered Subjectivities

Juliet Watson

Spaces of Youth

Work, Citizenship and Culture in a Global Context

David Farrugia

Transitions to Adulthood Through Recession

Youth and Inequality in a European Comparative Perspective

Edited by Sarah Irwin and Ann Nilsen

Forthcoming:

Rethinking Young Peoples Marginalisation

Beyond Neo-Liberal Futures?

Perri Campbell, Lyn Harrison, Chris Hickey and Peter Kelly

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Names: Irwin, Sarah, 1961- author. | Nilsen, Ann, author.

Title: Transitions to adulthood through recession : youth and inequality in a European comparative perspective / Sarah Irwin and Ann Nilsen.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Youth, young adulthood and society | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017047046 | ISBN 9781138294288 (hardback)

Subjects: LCSH: Youth--Europe--Social conditions--21st century. | Youth--Europe--Economic conditions--21st century. | Adulthood--Europe. | Equality--Europe.

Classification: LCC HQ799.E9 I79 2018 | DDC 305.242094--dc23

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ISBN: 978-1-138-29428-8 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-23168-6 (ebk)

Nuno de Almeida Alves is Associate Professor and Head of Social Research Methods at ISCTEIUL. His research interests are in the area of youth studies and the sociology of work. His most recent publications include: Cairns, David, Nuno de Almeida Alves, Ana Alexandre e Augusta Correia (2016), Youth Unemployment and Job Precariousness: Political Participation in the Austerity Era, Basingstoke, PalgraveMacmillan. Carmo, Renato Miguel do, Frederico Cantante e Nuno de Almeida Alves (2014), Time projections: Youth and precarious employment, Time & Society 23(3), pp: 337357. DOI: 10.1177/0961463X14549505. Cairns, David, Katarzyna Growiec and Nuno de Almeida Alves (2014), Another Missing Middle? The marginalised majority of tertiary educated youth in Portugal during the economic crisis, Journal of Youth Studies 17(8), pp: 10461060. DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2013.878789

Julia Brannen is Professor of Sociology of the Family, Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education, London and Adjunct Professor at the University of Bergen. She has an international reputation for her methodological contributions and for ESRC and EUfunded research on family life and intergenerational relationships. She recently published