scholarly journals Work, employment and the material conditions of young people in developed economies: a Marxist political economy of youth perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Edward Yates
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Young People ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Youth Perspective

scholarly journals Construcción de paz en espacios escolares a través de los enfoques de juventud y derechos humanos

2019 ◽  
Vol número 8 (julio-diciembre 2019) ◽  
pp. 141-161
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Peace Education ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Public High Schools ◽  
La Paz ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Active Observation ◽  
Youth Perspective

Resumen El presente artículo presenta algunos de los resultados obtenidos en dos intervenciones con jóvenes de escuelas secundarias públicas, ubicadas en la Ciudad de México y en el Estado de México. A partir del diagnóstico realizado con observación participante, entrevistas y la sistematización de talleres; se aplicó una intervención educativa desde la propuesta teórico metodológica que combina el enfoque de juventudes y la educación para la paz y derechos humanos. De ambas intervenciones, resalta la necesidad de tender puentes dialógicos como un elemento central para la formación de autonomía en jóvenes desde el dispositivo escolar. A modo de conclusión se proponen algunos elementos para la construcción de autonomía de los sujetos jóvenes, quienes requieren ser reconocidos como agentes sociales con capacidad de transformar de su entorno como elemento central para la dignificación y construcción de paz en los espacios escolares. Palabras clave: Jóvenes, autonomía, educación para la paz, empoderamient. Abstract This article presents some results obtained in two interventions with students in two Public High Schools located in Mexico City and in Mexico State. Based on the diagnosis made with active observation, interviews and the systematization of workshops; an educational intervention was applied from the theoretical-methodological proposal that combines the youth perspective, peace education and human rights approaches. Highlights on both interventions, the need to build dialogical bridges in schools as main autonomy construction element in young people training. Some elements are proposed as conclusion, for young people autonomy construction, who need to be recognized as social agents with the capacity to transform their environment as a central element for dignify and build-peace in schools. Keyworks: Youth, autonomy, education for peace, empowerment.

scholarly journals Wschodni model współczesnego wychowania państwowego na przykładzie rosyjskiego korpusu kadetów. Zarys problemu

2019 ◽  
pp. 145-152
Author(s):  
Przemysław Jastrzębski
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Military Schools ◽  
State Education ◽  
External Threat ◽  
Patriotic Education ◽  
Education Model ◽  
Corps Of Cadets ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
The Military

The modern model of state education in Russia promotes patriotism and devotion to the authorities. Young people must be proud of their origin and, in spite of deteriorating material conditions, should stay in the country contributing to its development. Cadet Corps Alumni are an example of a patriotic education model. Several years of learning in the military school shapes their beliefs and teaches them complete surrender to authority. Patriotism, combined with the sense of external threat, has become the driving force behind the reconstruction of the Russian superpower. One of the cornerstones of the school is the acceptance of Putin’s Russia by spreading the vision of becoming an international representative of the country. The increase in military spending and functioning of military schools such as the Corps of Cadets give rise to fears that in the future Russia the army will become one of the tools of the superpower on the arena of foreign policy.

Homeless shelters and the blues

2022 ◽  
pp. 026377582110675
Author(s):  
Christian D Siener
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Homeless Shelters ◽  
Homeless Shelter ◽  
Political Consciousness ◽  
Carceral State ◽  
Emergent Structure ◽  
Material Conditions

In this article, I analyze the emergence of New York City’s infrastructure of homeless shelters dialectically, relationally, and historically. The members of Boogie Down Productions met in an incipient New York City homeless shelter in the mid-1980s. Their relationship and music is a window into a critical political consciousness of men living in homeless shelters because the artists gave expression to an emergent structure of feeling of resistance taking hold during intense changes to New York’s political economy and its institutions. The paper first analyzes homeless policy and infrastructural change through a reading of archival sources and government reports and documents. The second section understands oral histories conducted with men living in a New York City homeless shelter as blues geographies—insurgent, critical explanations of these institutional spaces. Shelter residents actively challenge the material conditions, relations, and values that produce homeless shelters as essential instruments of the carceral state. I argue that they activate this resistance to the naturalization of shelters, and themselves as homeless, by narrating carceral spaces as abolitionist spaces.

The Nature of Youth Employment

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Walmsley
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Youth Employment ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality

Roan and Diamond (2003) claim that labour market policy in Australia has focussed on the provision of employment and the preparation of young people for employment but entirely neglected quality of working life issues. The same may be said for other developed economies’ labour market policies. In the anguish to get young people into work, which is understandable given the youth unemployment crisis, the nature of work itself has, until recently at least, rarely been questioned. In the run up to the May 2015 UK general election, rival parties were at loggerheads over the nature of jobs being created in the economy, with the ruling coalition parties pointing to the fall in unemployment and the opposition arguing that many of these jobs were barely paying the minimum wage and that furthermore many of the jobs now being offered were on zero-hour contracts and also on casual contracts, which are ones where the employer can hire staff without the guarantee of work. Suddenly the nature of work reappeared on policy makers’ agendas and this, coupled with tourism’s admittedly poor reputation as an employer, suggests the need for a closer look at the nature of youth employment in the sector. Consequently, this chapter presents and discusses different characteristics of youth employment in tourism and hospitality. It aims to provide an insight into the experience of youth employment as well as reviewing the role of trade unions in improving working conditions for young people. The chapter also addresses separately the nature of youth employment in developing countries, and concludes with a review of the relationship between responsible tourism and youth employment.

Conclusion

Religion ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 206-210
Author(s):  
David Chidester
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Force And Motion ◽  
The World ◽  
Material Conditions

In this book we have moved through religious materiality, exploring striking and illuminating cases, guided by attention to material categories, formations, and circulations. We have considered different meanings of materiality. People engage objects; objects engage people; and both people and objects are interwoven in material conditions and consequences that can rise to the level of materiality. Following the usage of the term in the practices of law and accounting, materiality is less a question of metaphysics than a matter of political economy. In this respect, materiality is a matter of force and effect, a configuration of discourse and power that makes a difference in the world. As a result, our exploration of the material dynamics of religion has been as much about dynamics—power, energy, force, and motion—as it has been about material objects....

1. The Study of Global Political Economy

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Ravenhill
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
The World ◽  
World Poverty ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
The Impact

This volume provides an introduction to the field of Global Political Economy (GPE). It explores some of the approaches that have addressed the key concerns of theorists of GPE; for example. what conditions are most conducive to the emergence of collaborative behaviour among states on economic issues, or what are the determinants of the foreign economic policies of states. It examines various aspects of the debate about globalization as well as the impact of globalization on world poverty, inequality, and the environment. It also considers how globalization has changed the relations between industrialized and less developed economies. This chapter discusses the global financial crisis and the world economy pre-1914, in the interwar period, and post-1945. It also analyses the emergence of GPE as a field and describes a number of approaches to the study of GPE.

scholarly journals Biophysical Economics for Policy and Teaching: Mexico as an Example

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2580
Author(s):  
Salvador Peniche Camps ◽  
Charles A. S. Hall ◽  
Kent Klitgaard
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Young People ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
The World ◽  
Biophysical Economics ◽  
Good Set ◽  
The University ◽  
Social Turmoil

Many parts of the world are currently facing unprecedented social turmoil. Few understand that most of these “exploding” situations have a biophysical basis in patterns of consumption and the ratio of number of humans to resources available. Most “solutions” proposed are political oppression or, for the lucky, economic development, usually led by conventional economists. However, we believe that, for many regions, conventional economics, certainly alone and perhaps in their entirety, are not up to the job of addressing these crises. We propose a new discipline, Biophysical Economics, that addresses these lacunae and offers a good set of procedures for bringing much more natural science to the discipline of economics. This approach provides a stronger basis for training young people in both economics and heterodox political economy. We will need economists with this new training for a future that appears very different from today. This article outlines the rationales for further developing and teaching Biophysical Economics to demonstrate its utility and applies this economic lens to the economy of Mexico. We finish by providing an example of how a Biophysical Economics curriculum appropriate to analyzing and addressing the Mexican economic context might be developed and taught at the University of Guadalajara. This curriculum could also be adapted to other national, educational and institutional settings.

The generational questions after land reform in Zimbabwe: a social reproduction perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-425
Author(s):  
Clement Chipenda ◽  
Tom Tom
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Reform Programme ◽  
The Social ◽  
Contemporary Perspective ◽  
Youth Perspective

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a contemporary perspective on post land reform Zimbabwe with special focus on the youth. It uses the social reproduction conceptual framework to show that two decades after land reform, there are generational questions which are now arising in the new resettlement areas which need deeper, empirical and more nuanced analysis to comprehend. In a context where some countries in Southern Africa are grappling with the best ways of dealing with their land questions, it shows that from a youth perspective, the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) has important lessons. Design/methodology/approach The study was largely qualitative and grounded in an interpretive research paradigm. It employed various data gathering instruments and solicited for responses from 151 young people as well as 11 key informants. The study used the social reproduction perspective as a conceptual and evaluative tool to ascertain the outcomes of the FTLRP from a social reproduction perspective with special focus on young people. Findings The study showed that there are some young people in the resettlement areas who blame the land reform programme for the challenging socio-economic situation which they are facing. It also shows that for the youth, the FTLRP has had multi-dimensional impact; while some are complaining, others have managed to use their agency to access natural resources and land, which has seen them “accumulating from below”. For some young people, land reform has positively transformed their lives, while others feel that it has limited their opportunities. Originality/value The paper provides new and contemporary insights on post land reform Zimbabwe. This is an area which is increasingly gaining traction in scholarship on the FTLRP. In addition, the paper provides a unique perspective of looking at the issue of the youth from a social reproduction perspective; this is a unique academic contribution. Lastly, the paper is useful insofar as it transcends the debates on the FTLRP to proffer a unique analysis on the social reproduction dimensions of the FTLRP.

Making ends meet: Young people, work and the criminal economy

1989 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 136-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob White
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Young People ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Young Men ◽  
The Relationship

This paper attempts to locate changes in young people's involvement in crime, and the policing of young people, within the context of a changing political economy and the broken transitions experienced by a significant proportion of young men and young women. It begins by significant proportion of young men and young women. It begins by discussing how many young working class people have been excluded from the formal waged economy due to structural changes in the labour market. The paper then explores the relationship between the “cash crisis” affecting many unemployed school leavers, and their income and lifestyle options in the spheres of the informal waged economy, the informal unwaged economy, and the criminal economy

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