TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andres,Lesley
AU  - Wyn,Johanna
TI  - The making of a generation: the children of the 1970s in adulthood 
SN  - 9780802092588
AV  - HQ799.8 A561 M 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Young adults
KW  - Canada
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Australia
KW  - Generation X
KW  - Jeunes adultes
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Australie
KW  - Génération X
KW  - 1971-1991
KW  - 1991-
N1  - Includes index; 1. Introduction -- 2. Concepts and Theories: Understanding Generation and Change -- 3. Shaping Generational Change through Policy -- 4. Hopes, Dreams -- 5. Education: Changing Structures and Changing Opportunities -- 6. Gaining a Fooyhold in the World of Work -- 7. Relationships and Family -- 8. Health and Well-Being: Achieving a Balance in Life -- 9. Implications: Generation and Inequality; HKBU library; YT2025 M08
N2  - "Secondary school graduates of the late 1980s and early 1990s have found themselves coping with economic insecurity, social change, and workplace restructuring. Drawing on studies that have recorded the lives of young people in two countries for over fifteen years, The Making of a Generation offers unique insight into the hopes, dreams, and trajectories of a generation; Although children born in the 1970s were more educated than ever before, as adults they entered new labour markets that were de-regulated and precarious. Lesley Andres and Johanna Wyn discuss the consequences of education and labour policies in Canada and Australia, emphasizing their long-term impacts on health, well-being, and family formation. They conclude that these young adults bore the brunt of policies designed to bring about rapid changes in the nature of work. Despite their modest hopes and aspirations for security, those born in the 1970s became a vanguard generation as they negotiated the significant social and economic transformations of the 1990s."--pub. desc
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