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Precarity and Vocational Education and Training

Craftsmanship and Employability in Romania

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Authors:
  1. Maria-Carmen Pantea

    1. Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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  • Examines how young people in VET relate to their own futures and how they fit within an increasingly precarious working culture
  • Reveals three ideological layers framing the views of young people in VET
  • Argues for a recalibration on the emphasis on VET in Romania

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-16

  3. Manual Work, Vocations and the Creation of Working Subjects

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      Pages 17-17
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    2. The Changing Nature and Meanings of Manual Work

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      Pages 19-34

    3. The VET Project

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      Pages 35-59

    4. Research Puzzle and Methodology

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      Pages 61-74

  4. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-78
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    2. The ‘Grand Narrative’: Or the Power of Conventional Aspirations

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      Pages 79-113

    3. Neoliberal Aspirations: Agency, Choice and Experimentation

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      Pages 115-155

    4. Low Expectations

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      Pages 157-195

    5. Conclusions

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      Pages 197-221

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 223-229
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About this book

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, youth unemployment and economic growth. However, the views of young people in VET themselves concerning their own work and aspirations have largely been ignored. Based on interviews and focus groups conducted with over 250 young people in VET in Romania, this book examines the types of subjectivities that are generated in the processes by which they try to make sense of future and the meanings of work. In doing so, the author identifies three ideological layers that frame their views: arguing that while the young people interviewed hold ‘conventional’ aspirations for stability and predictability; they were visibly influenced by neoliberal beliefs in agency, experimentation and short termism. Ultimately, a layer of low expectations crystallises unvoiced concerns over a troubling future. In highlighting young people’s voices, this pioneering book calls for a recalibration of the emphasis on VET in Romania. It will appeal to students and scholars of youth studies, the sociology of work, vocational education and training and European studies.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Maria-Carmen Pantea

About the author

Maria-Carmen Pantea is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania. Her research interests focus on youth studies; particularly the relationship between young people and work in its various forms, including entrepreneurship and vocational education and training.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Precarity and Vocational Education and Training

  • Book Subtitle: Craftsmanship and Employability in Romania

  • Authors: Maria-Carmen Pantea

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02689-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02688-2Published: 14 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02689-9Published: 19 December 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 229

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Work, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

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