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Youth, Masculinity and the Labour Market: Precarious Transitions in Post-Industrial Britain

Youth, Masculinity and the Labour Market: Precarious Transitions in Post-Industrial Britain

Gülgeçer, James Kartal

Hardcover

Series: Youth, Young Adulthood and Society

General ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032882298
ISBN13: 9781032882291
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 13 2026
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book examines young men's precarious education-to-employment transitions as they navigate educational, occupational and emotional challenges in the shadow of deindustrialisation and austerity.

Using a mixed-methods approach, Gülgeçer draws on survey and interview data to explore young men's perceptions and experiences of employment, unemployment, education and training in two post-industrial British cities. The book analyses how structural inequalities - fragmented labour markets, biased education systems and punitive welfare regimes - shape uncertain futures. With education emerging as a risky 'gamble, ' apprenticeships desired but underfunded and unemployment often experienced as both stigma and moral injury, the study foregrounds the emotional costs of precarity - shame, anxiety and resilience - and reveals a fractured yet enduring agency among young men facing economic abandonment and processes of cultural misrecognition in post-industrial contexts.

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