Youth, Jobs, and the Future Problems and Prospects [Paperback]

While overall unemployment has declined, the unemployment rate remains nearly twice as high for young people 16 to 19 years of age and nearly three times as high for those aged 20 to 24. Rates of unemployment and underemployment are nearly two to three times higher for Black and Latino youth. InYouth, Jobs, and the Future, Lynn S. Chancer, Mart?n S?nchez-Jankowski, and Christine Trost have gathered a cast of well-known interdisciplinary scholars to confront the persistent issues of youth unemployment and worsening socio-economic precarity in the United States. The book explores structural and cultural causes of youth unemployment, their ramifications for both native and immigrant youth, and how middle- and working-class youth across diverse races and ethnicities are affected within and outside the legal economy. A needed contribution, this book locates solutions to youth unemployment in economic and political changes as well as changes in cultural attitudes.

Introduction
Lynn Chancer, Mart?n S?nchez-Jankowski and Christine Trost

PART ONE: SETTING THE STAGE: TRENDS AND MACROCONTEXTS

1. The Employment Patterns of Young Adults, 1989-2014
Mike 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 Work
Jamie K. McCallum

4. Real Jobs and Redshirting: Job Seeking Strategies for College-Educated Youth
Maria Kefalas and Patrick Carr

5. Part-time Employment and Aesthetic Labor among Middle-Class Youth
Yasemin 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 Europe
Richard Alba and Nancy Foner

7. Youth Unemployment and the Illicit Economy
Mart?n S?nchez-Jankowski

8. Effects of IncarcerlÃ-