Choosing to Labour?: School-Work Transitions and Social Class

摘要: Young people about to leave high school argue that they are determining their own destinies. Scholarly debates also suggest the influence of structural factors such as social class on an individual's life course is decreasing. Wolfgang Lehmann challenges this view and offers a detailed comparative analysis inter-relationships between class, institutional structures, individual educational career choices. Through qualitative study academic-track students participants in youth apprenticeships Germany Canada, shows how range available school-work transition options defined by both gender class. Highlighting importance context understanding transitions, particularly relation Germany's celebrated apprenticeship system, which rests highly streamed secondary schooling stratified labour market, argues inequalities maintained part choices made young people, rather than simply forces. "Choosing Labour?" concludes with exploration public policy can meet dual challenge providing meaningful equitable experiences, while simultaneously fulfilling need for skilled workforce.