The making of a generation
Subtitle: the children of the 1970s in adulthood
By: Lesley Andres and Johanna Wyn
Contributors: Wyn, Johanna, 1952-
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780802092588; 9780802094674
Subjects: Social conditions; Jeunes adultes; Generation X; Young adults; Conditions sociales; Génération X
Description: "Secondary school graduates of the late 1980s and early 1990s have found themselves coping with economic insecurity, social change, and workplace restructuring. Drawing on studies that have recorded the lives of young people in two countries for over fifteen years, The Making of a Generation offers unique insight into the hopes, dreams, and trajectories of a generation.

Although children born in the 1970s were more educated than ever before, as adults they entered new labour markets that were de-regulated and precarious. Lesley Andres and Johanna Wyn discuss the consequences of education and labour policies in Canada and Australia, emphasizing their long-term impacts on health, well-being, and family formation. They conclude that these young adults bore the brunt of policies designed to bring about rapid changes in the nature of work. Despite their modest hopes and aspirations for security, those born in the 1970s became a vanguard generation as they negotiated the significant social and economic transformations of the 1990s."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references: p. [251]-266.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Concepts and Theories: Understanding Generation and Change; title: 3. Shaping Generational Change through Policy; title: 4. Hopes, Dreams; title: 5. Education: Changing Structures and Changing Opportunities; title: 6. Gaining a Fooyhold in the World of Work; title: 7. Relationships and Family; title: 8. Health and Well-Being: Achieving a Balance in Life; title: 9. Implications: Generation and Inequality