The precarious generation: a political economy of young people

Many young people born since the early 1980s face unprecedented social and economic disadvantage. While they spend more time in education, even university graduates now find it difficult to access full-time work, find affordable decent housing or enjoy the economic security needed to start families. This book draws on the voices of young people to document their experiences in increasingly unequal societies like the USA, United Kingdom, France, Spain and Australia. While governments and experts refer to new technologies, globalisation and risk society to explain their plight, the authors maintain we need look no further than recent public policies adopted by governments wedded to advancing market capitalism to understand why this is happening. "