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Training without Jobs

New Deals and Broken Promises

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  • © 1987

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Authors:
  1. Dan Finn
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Part of the book series: Youth Questions (YQ)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction: New Deals and Broken Promises

    • Dan Finn
    Pages 1-11

  3. ‘Secondary Education for All’: Raising the School Leaving Age and Juvenile Unemployment Between the Wars

    • Dan Finn
    Pages 13-34

  4. Raising the School Leaving Age to Sixteen: School and Work in the 1960s

    • Dan Finn
    Pages 35-61

  5. The Impact of RSLA: Growing Up and Leaving School

    • Dan Finn
    Pages 63-101

  6. The Great Debate on Education, Youth Unemployment and the MSC

    • Dan Finn
    Pages 103-129

  7. Mrs Thatcher’s U-turn? From Youth Opportunities to Youth Training

    • Dan Finn
    Pages 131-159

  8. A New Deal for the Young Working Class? The New Vocationalism and an Employer-led YTS

    • Dan Finn
    Pages 161-190

  9. Conclusion: Training Without Jobs

    • Dan Finn
    Pages 191-200

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 201-242
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For more than a century the state has prohibited children from obtaining full time employment and it has assumed increasing control over the conditions awaiting school leavers in the labour market. This book traces these developments from the introduction of compulsory schooling to the creating of the two year Youth Training Scheme. It draws on a wealth of empirical studies of young people at school and at work both to illustrate how raising the school leaving age to 16 failed to deliver what it promised, and to reveal how the Conservative government elected in 1979 redefined the relationship between education, training and work. Through a detailed critique of the development and politics of the Manpower Services Commission, the book shows how the power of the state has been used to manage and contain the political crisis of mass unemployment. It also reveals, however, that young people are unlikely to accept meekly the new social and economic status that the government has created for them. Many have little confidence in the cynical offers of Training Without Jobs.

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