Youth, precarious work and the pandemic

J Cook, S Threadgold, D Farrugia, J Coffey - Young, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
While Australia has experienced low COVID-19 case numbers relative to other countries, it
has witnessed severe economic consequences in the wake of the pandemic. The hospitality …

Continuing the precedent: Financially disadvantaging young people in" unprecedented" COVID‐19 times

P O'Keeffe, B Johnson, K Daley - Australian Journal of Social …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The COVID‐19 pandemic is both a health and an economic crisis. Economically, lockdowns
across Australia have devastated business and industry, creating immediate spikes in under …

Graduating in uncertain times: The impact of COVID‐19 on recent graduate career prospects, trajectories and outcomes

M Tomlinson, F Reedy, D Burg - Higher Education Quarterly, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on recent UK graduates' initial
employment outcomes and how they experience the transition into a challenging labour …

Young people's presents and futures, and the moral obligation to be enterprising and aspirational in times of crisis

J Goring, P Kelly, D Carbajo, S Brown - Futures, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper we reference a recent OECD report, Dream Jobs? which argues that education
systems should guide young people's aspirations for their futures in ways that counter …

Conceptualising transitions from higher education to employment: navigating liminal spaces

M Tomlinson - Journal of Youth Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article develops and applies the concept of liminality and liminal identities to illustrate
the relative positioning of graduates within the transitional spaces of moving from one …

Theorising and preparing students for precarity: how can leaders and educators better prepare students to enter an increasingly insecure workforce?

L Walsh, J Gleeson - Educational Leadership and Policy in a Time …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
Workforce insecurity has significant implications for the role of school leaders and teachers
preparing students for changing worlds of work. For educators to better prepare students to …

COVID-19, young people and the futures of work: Rethinking global grammars of enterprise

D Carbajo, P Kelly - The Sociological Review, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article we revisit our analytical concept of global grammars of enterprise to explore the
ways in which this grammar is being reimagined in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic …

The impact of pandemic-related loss of work on young adults' plans

J Cook, D Farrugia, S Threadgold… - Journal of Youth …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This article presents the findings of an interview and digital methods-based study of young
Australian hospitality workers who lost work in the wake of the pandemic. In so doing it …

Young adults and investing for the future: Examining futuring practices and wellbeing through digital brokerage platforms

B Hanckel, N Ann Hendry - The Sociological Review, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Young adults' lives are increasingly characterised by uncertainty, which has heightened
since the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as an expectation that they transition into adulthood …

Towards a revaluation of work in post-Fordist societies? Critical reconversions of highly skilled youth and negotiations of fluid relationships with work

S Stavrou, P Achniotis - Journal of Youth Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article investigates young university graduates who actively engage with critical
reconversion processes in their relationship to work, by abandoning a relevant field of study …