Work Aspirations and Attitudes in an Era of Labour Market Restructuring: A Comparison of two Canadian Youth Cohorts
This article tests the assumption that youth's work attitudes are changing to reflect the restructured labour markets that often are taken as a characteristic of late-modernity. Comparing 1985 and 1996 cohorts of high school leavers in a Canadian city, we find that occupational aspirations increased significantly since 1985, especially among females, in ways consistent with employment trends in a service-based economy. However, the 1985 and 1996 youth cohorts wanted very similar conditions in a job, and in each cohort we observed significant gender differences. General attitudes towards work and education also remained fairly constant. We discuss the implications of these findings for school-work transition research and for larger debates about youth responses to conditions of late-modernity.
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2000
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Authors: | Lowe, Graham S. ; Krahn, Harvey |
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Work, Employment & Society. - British Sociological Association. - Vol. 14.2000, 1, p. 1-22
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British Sociological Association |
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