Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Youth, Masculinity and the Labour Market : Precarious Transitions in Post-Industrial Britain - James Kartal  Gulgecer

Youth, Masculinity and the Labour Market

Precarious Transitions in Post-Industrial Britain

By: James Kartal Gulgecer

Hardcover | 13 February 2026 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Hardcover


$523.99

or 4 interest-free payments of $131.00 with

 or 

Available: 13th February 2026

Preorder. Will ship when available.

This book examines young menâs precarious education-to-employment transitions as they navigate educational, occupational and emotional challenges in the shadow of deindustrialisation and austerity.

Using a mixed-methods approach, G¼lge§er draws on survey and interview data to explore young menâs perceptions and experiences of employment, unemployment, education and training in two post-industrial British cities. The book analyses how structural inequalities â" fragmented labour markets, biased education systems and punitive welfare regimes â" shape uncertain futures. With education emerging as a risky âgambleâ, apprenticeships desired but underfunded and unemployment often experienced as both stigma and moral injury, the study foregrounds the emotional costs of precarity â" shame, anxiety and resilience â" and reveals a fractured yet enduring agency among young men facing economic abandonment and processes of cultural misrecognition in post-industrial contexts.

An interplay of material and affective precarity in youth education-to-employment transitions, this book will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, social policy, youth studies, labour market studies and masculinities. It will also be of value to professionals engaged with UK welfare, skills and labour market policy.

More in Poverty & Unemployment

Not Quite White in the Head - Melissa Lucashenko

RRP $39.99

$34.95

13%
OFF
The Trading Game : A Confession - Gary Stevenson

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo
Equality : What It Means and Why It Matters - Thomas Piketty

RRP $24.95

$21.75

13%
OFF
Shelter : How Australians Live - Kara Rosenlund

RRP $59.99

$45.75

24%
OFF
Maid - Stephanie Land

Paperback

RRP $22.99

$20.75

10%
OFF
Applying Social Policy in Social Work Practice - Laura Mullen
The Humanitarian Fable : Saviorism, Race, and Aid - David  Jefferess

RRP $305.00

$263.75

14%
OFF
A Cultural History of Poverty : Volumes 1-6 - Professor Steven M.  Beaudoin