Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

Authors

Contributions

Looking back in order to look forwards

1Understanding the changing youth labour market

2From the ‘golden age’ to neo-liberalism

3The great transformation and the punitive turn

4Towards a new normality: work and unemployment in contemporary Britain

5The age of liminality

6Towards a post-liminal labour market

Is it inevitable that young people have to carry these costs of social change?

Appendix

Bibliography

Index