Precarity and Vocational Education and Training Craftsmanship and Employability in Romania /

• Main Author: Pantea, Maria-Carmen (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Professional education.; Vocational education.; Educational sociology.; Industrial sociology.; Social groups.; Family.; Professional & Vocational Education.; Sociology of Education.; Sociology of Work.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.

This book explores how the changing nature of work intersects with and influences young people's views on their future. As an increasingly precarious service sector overtakes traditional industrial work, vocational education and training (VET) is held up as a panacea for poverty alleviation, yo...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• PART I. MANUAL WORK, VOCATION AND THE CREATION OF WORKING SUBJECTS
• Chapter 2. The Changing Nature and Meanings of Manual Work
• Chapter 3. The VET Project
• Chapter 4. Research Puzzle and Methodology
• PART II. IMAGINED FUTURES. ON HIGH ASPIRATIONS AND LOW EXPECTATIONS
• Chapter 5. The Grand Narrative, Or the Power of Conventional Aspirations
• Chapter 6. Neoliberal Aspirations: Agency, Choice and Experimentation
• Chapter 7. Low Expectations
• Chapter 8. Conclusions.