Youth, Jobs, and the Future

Lynn S. Chancer is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Executive Officer of the Sociology Department at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author or co-editor of five volumes including Sadomasochism in Everyday Life (Rutgers University Press, 1992), Reconcilable Differences: Confronting Beauty, Pornography and the Future of Feminism (University of California Press, 1998), High-Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes (University of Chicago Press, 2005), and (with Beverly Watkins), Gender, Race and Class: An Overview (Blackwell, 2005).Martín Sánchez-Jankowski is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues at the University of California, Berkeley. His areas of research are sociology of poverty, social violence, ethnic and racial relations and youth. He is the author of five books and co-editor of two.Christine Trost is Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues at the University of California at Berkeley. Trained as a political scientist (PhD Berkeley), she has written journal articles and edited volumes on topics related to political ethics, campaign practices, youth civic and political engagement, and the rise of the Tea Party.

• IntroductionLynn Chancer, Martín Sánchez-Jankowski and Christine Trost PART ONE: SETTING THE STAGE: TRENDS AND MACROCONTEXTS 1. The Employment Patterns of Young Adults, 1989-2014Mike Hout 2. Precarious Work and Young Workers in the U.S.Arne Kalleberg PART TWO: PRIVILEGE AND DISADVANTAGE IN THE YOUTH LABOR MARKET 3. Take this Job and Love It? The Millennial Work Ethic and the Politics of Getting Back to WorkJamie K. McCallum 4. Real Jobs and Redshirting: Job Seeking Strategies for College-Educated YouthMaria Kefalas and Patrick Carr 5. Part-time Employment and Aesthetic Labor among Middle-Class YouthYasemin Besen-Cassino PART THREE: SOCIOECONOMIC PRECARITY AND YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT 6. The Children of Low-status Immigrants and Youth Unemployment in the U.S. and Western EuropeRichard Alba and Nancy Foner 7. Youth Unemployment and the Illicit EconomyMartín Sánchez-Jankowski 8. Effects of Incarceration on Labor Market Outcomes among Young AdultsDavid J. Harding, Anh P. Nguyen, Jeffrey D. Morenoff, Shawn D. Bushway PART FOUR: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? 9. Transforming High School and Addressing the Challenge of America's CompetitivenessStanley Litow and Grace Suh 10. Time's Up! Shorter Hours, Public Policy, and Time Flexibility as an Antidote to Youth UnemploymentKatherine Eva Maich, Jamie K. McCallum, Ari Grant-Sasson 11. Youth Prospects and the Case for a Universal Basic IncomeSarah Reibstein and Andy Stern 12. Jobs for Young Americans: The Enduring Case for Full EmploymentRobert Kuttner Index