Precarity and Vocational Education and Training: Craftsmanship and Employability in Romania

ISBN-13: 9783030026882 Publisher: Springer International Publishing Publication date: 12/20/2018 Edition description: 1st ed. 2019 Pages: 229 Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d) This book explores how the changing nature of work intersects with and influences young people’s views on their future. As an increasingly precarious service sector overtakes traditional industrial work, vocational education and training (VET) is held up as a panacea for poverty alleviation, youth unemployment and economic growth. However, the views of young people in VET themselves concerning their own work and aspirations have largely been ignored. Based on interviews and focus groups conducted with over 250 young people in VET in Romania, this book examines the types of subjectivities that are generated in the processes by which they try to make sense of future and the meanings of work. In doing so, the author identifies three ideological layers that frame their views: arguing that while the young p