Jobless Citizens : Political Engagement of the Young Unemployed

✍ Scribed by Marco Giugni, Jasmine Lorenzini (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 145
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines patterns of political engagement of long-term unemployed youth. The authors show how unemployment affects the personal, social, and political life of young people. Focusing on the case of Geneva in Switzerland, the study shows the importance of socioeconomic, relational, psychological, and institutional resources for the political engagement of unemployed youth. The book showsspecifically how the relationship between unemployment and the political engagement of unemployed youth is mediated by a number of factors: their socioeconomic status and more generally their individual background, their level of deprivation and the associated degree of subjective well-being; the social capital that unemployed youth draw from involvement in voluntary associations and interpersonal networks and relations, and the political learning stemming from interactions with welfare institutions and their perception of such interactions.

Students and scholars in areas including Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Youth Studies and Social Policy will find this study of interest.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-15
The Political Engagement of Unemployed Youth....Pages 17-29
Individual Background and Socioeconomic Status....Pages 31-46
Deprivation and Subjective Well-Being....Pages 47-62
Social Networks and Social Capital....Pages 63-77
Welfare State and Political Learning....Pages 79-95
Putting the Pieces Together....Pages 97-107
Conclusion....Pages 109-120
Back Matter....Pages 121-143

✦ Subjects

Political Sociology;Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging;Labor Economics;Children, Youth and Family Policy;Sociology of Work