Young people in the labour market : past, present, future

Acknowledgements -- Foreword looking back in order to look forward / Ken Roberts -- Understanding the changing youth labour market -- From the "golden age" to neo-liberalism -- The great transformation and the punitive turn -- Towards a new normality : work and unemployment in contemporary Britain -- The age of liminality -- Towards a post-liminal labour market -- Afterword -- Is it inevitable that young people have to carry these costs of social change? -- Appendix -- References