Webster, Colin / Simpson, Donald et al. Poor Transitions - Social Exclusion and Young Adults. Bristol University Press, 2004.

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Colin Webster / Donald Simpson / Robert Macdonald / Andrea Abbas / Mark Cieslik / Tracy Shildrick / Mark Simpson

Poor Transitions

Social Exclusion and Young Adults

Bristol University Press
2004

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ISBN 9781861346506

Based on a rare example of longitudinal, qualitative research with hard-to- reach young adults, this study throws into question common approaches to understanding and tackling social exclusion. A key conclusion is that in disadvantaged labor markets current welfare to work policies often entrap individuals in low-paid, precarious poor work, thus entrenching their social exclusion. The report provides a detailed insight into the processes that shape poor transitions and, in particular, highlights: young adults encounters with education, training and employment and their attempts to establish more rewarding working lives; the choices and constraints facing young mothers as they try to balance childcare and paid employment; the complicated

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factors that lead some adults to desist from crime and drug use and some to persist; and the impact of growing up in poor neighborhoods on the longer term transitions of young people. The authors argue that understanding social exclusion and dev

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