Cassell Education
2 total works
"Class and Skill" links the debates on social class and "classlessness" with concerns about changing levels of skill in the economy. The perennial English obsession with social class is approached from the idea of defining the notion of skill. The prospect of continuing economic crisis poses the problem of creating skills for the future, which the author aims to address practically, using quotations from his research. This study is suitable for teachers, lecturers in education and students of education, politics, sociology, economics and cultural studies.
This is a study of young people in Britain who have left home before the age of 21, 80 young people from the four contrasting areas of Swindon, Liverpool, Sheffield and Kirkcaldy were interviewed in depth. The book is a contribution to this relatively neglected topic and looks at various critical and under-researched social issues: youth, homelessness, courtship, marriage and family formation and single parenthood. Drawing on his interviews, the author gives insights into the dynamics of family life, housing situations, attitudes and political issues and the contrasting self concepts of these young people.