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Japan's emerging youth policy: getting young adults back to work

2013 Tuukka Toivonen ;ISBN: 0203093836 ;ISBN: 9780203093832 ;ISBN: 0415670535 ;ISBN: 9780415670531 ;ISBN: 9781138694583 ;ISBN: 1138694584 ;EISBN: 9781136203459 ;EISBN: 1136203451 ;EISBN: 0203093836 ;EISBN: 9780203093832 ;EISBN: 0415670535 ;EISBN: 1136203443 ;EISBN: 9781136203442 ;EISBN: 9780415670531 ;DOI: 10.4324/9780203093832 ;OCLC: 823169943 ;OCLC: 823389740 ;LCCallNum: HD6276.J32 T65 2013

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  • Title:
    Japan's emerging youth policy: getting young adults back to work
  • Author: Toivonen, Tuukka H. I
  • Subjects: Access to employment ; Adolescents ; Asian Social Policy ; Employment ; Government policy ; Japan ; Japanese Culture & Society ; Post-industrial society ; Social conditions ; Social exclusion ; Social Policy ; Unemployment ; Youth ; Youth - Employment - Government policy - Japan
  • Description: "From the 1960s onwards, Japan's rapid economic growth coincided with remarkably low youth unemployment. However, since the 1990s the ease with which young people have historically moved from education to employment has ended, and unemployment is now a real and growing problem in contemporary Japan. This book examines how the state, experts, the media as well as youth workers, have responded to the troubling rise of youth joblessness in 21st century Japan. The answer that emerges from this analysis is as complex as it is fascinating, but comprises two essential elements. First, instead of institutional 'carrots and sticks' as seen in Europe, actors belonging to mainstream Japan have deployed controversial labels such as NEET ('Not in Education, Employment or Training') to steer inactive youth into low-wage jobs. However, a second approach has been crafted by entrepreneurial youth support leaders that builds on what the author refers to as 'communities of recognition'. As demonstrated at real sites of youth support, one such methodology consists of 'exploring the user' (i.e. the support-receiver) whereby complex disadvantages, family relationships and local employment contexts are skilfully negotiated. It is this second dimension in Japan's response to youth exclusion that suggests sustainable solutions to the employment dilemmas that virtually all post-industrial nations currently face but which none have yet seriously addressed. Based on extensive fieldwork draws on both sociological and policy science approaches, this book will be welcomed by students scholars and practitioners of Japanese, East Asian and comparative social policy, welfare, culture and society"--
  • Publisher: New York: Routledge
  • Creation Date: 2013
  • Format: 233
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0203093836
    ISBN: 9780203093832
    ISBN: 0415670535
    ISBN: 9780415670531
    ISBN: 9781138694583
    ISBN: 1138694584
    EISBN: 9781136203459
    EISBN: 1136203451
    EISBN: 0203093836
    EISBN: 9780203093832
    EISBN: 0415670535
    EISBN: 1136203443
    EISBN: 9781136203442
    EISBN: 9780415670531
    DOI: 10.4324/9780203093832
    OCLC: 823169943
    OCLC: 823389740
    LCCallNum: HD6276.J32 T65 2013
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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