Facing Trajectories from School to Work

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Capability Perspectives on Vulnerable Youth in Europe

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Towards a Capabilities Perspective on Vulnerable Young People in Europe: An Introduction

      • Holger Ziegler, Thierry Berthet, Roland Atzmüller, Jean-Michel Bonvin, Christian Christrup Kjeldsen

      Pages 3-17

   3. The Capability Approach, Education and the Labour Market

      • Christian Christrup Kjeldsen, Jean-Michel Bonvin

      Pages 19-34

3. Changes of Welfare Policies and the Role of the Capability Approach

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. Multilevel Governance and Capability Approach: What Convergence?

      • Thierry Berthet

      Pages 37-51

   3. New Conditions of Professional Work or the Fall of Professions? On Managerialism and Professionalism

      • Holger Ziegler, Niels Rosendal Jensen

      Pages 53-70

4. Capability Perspectives on Institutionalized Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Free Choice of Education? Capabilities, Possibility Spaces, and Incapacitations of Education, Labor, and the Way of Living One Values

      • Dirk Michel-Schertges

      Pages 73-86

   3. European Universities and Educational and Occupational Intergenerational Social Mobility

      • Marek Kwiek

      Pages 87-111

5. Capabilities, Labour Market and Education in Europe

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Operationalisation of the Capability Approach

      • Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, Valerie Egdell, Emma Hollywood, Ronald McQuaid

      Pages 115-139

   3. Labour Market Trajectories and Young Europeans’ Capabilities to Avoid Poverty, Social Exclusion and Dependency: A Comparative Analysis of 23 European Countries

      • Björn Halleröd, Hans Ekbrand

      Pages 141-158

   4. Would Active Labour Market Policies Enhance Youth Capability for Work in Europe?

      • Marion Lambert, Josiane Vero, Hans Ekbrand, Björn Halleröd

      Pages 159-180

   5. Critical Aspects of the Transformation of Work and Welfare from a Capability Perspective

      • Roland Atzmüller

      Pages 181-198

6. Capabilities for Voice, Work and Education: Critical Analysis of Programmes for Disadvantaged Young People in Europe

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199

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   2. Capabilities for Voice, Work and Education: Critical Analysis of Programmes for Disadvantaged Young People in Europe

      • Lavinia Bilfulco, Valerie Egdell, Ronald McQuaid, Thierry Berthet, Véronique Simon, Raffaele Monteleone et al.

      Pages 201-357

7. EU Youth Strategies from a Capability Perspective

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 359-359

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   2. Employability Versus Capability: European Strategies for Young People

      • Regine Schröer

      Pages 361-386

8. Back Matter

   Pages 387-394

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This book promotes a radical alternative impact on youth policy in Europe to overcome the situation of vulnerability and discrimination of a growing number of youngsters in their transition from school to work. It follows a Human Development perspective in using the Capability Approach (CA) as analytical and methodological guiding tool to improve the social conditions of the most socially vulnerable young people in European societies. The mission of the interdisciplinary authors is to expand the actual chances of the young to actively shape their lives in a way they have reason to choose and value. This book is based on the research of the EU Collaborative Project “Making Capabilities Work” (WorkAble), funded by the EU within the Seventh Framework Programme. It is the first empirical project to pursue a justice theory perspective on a European level. It also contributes to a fundamental change in the currently mostly insufficient attempts within the human capital approach to use the labour market to ensure desired lifestyle forms and a secure income for vulnerable youth.

• Capability approach
• Disadvantaged youth
• Early school leavers
• Education for work
• European universities
• European youth policies
• Higher education
• Human capital approach
• Human development perspective
• Labour market trajectory
• Making capabilities work
• NEET
• Not in Education, Employment or Training
• Professional education
• School to work transition
• Vocational education
• Vulnerable youth
• WorkAble
• Youth policy
• Youth voice

• Bielefeld Center for Education and Capability Research, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

  Hans-Uwe Otto

• Linz, Austria

  Roland Atzmüller

• Bordeaux, France

  Thierry Berthet

• Milan, Italy

  Lavinia Bifulco

• Lausanne, Switzerland

  Jean-Michel Bonvin

• Pavia, Italy

  Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti

• Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  Valerie Egdell

• Gothenburg, Sweden

  Björn Halleröd

• Copenhagen, Denmark

  Christian Christrup Kjeldsen

• Poznan University Center Public Policy Studies, Director, Poznan, Poland

  Marek Kwiek

• Brussels, Belgium

  Regine Schröer

• Marseille, France

  Josiane Vero

• Warsaw, Poland

  Marianna Zieleńska

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