Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Jennifer Birkett

Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Jennifer Birkett

The economic status of young people has declined significantly over the past two decades, despite a variety of programs designed to aid new workers in the transition from the classroom to the job market. This ongoing problem has proved difficult to explain. Drawing on comparative data from Canada, Germany, France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, these papers go beyond examining only employment and wages and explore the effects of family background, education and training, social expectations, and crime on youth employment.

This volume brings together key studies, providing detailed analyses of the difficult economic situation plaguing young workers. Why have demographic changes and additional schooling failed to resolve youth unemployment? How effective have those economic policies been which aimed to improve the labor skills and marketability of young people? And how have youths themselves responded to the deteriorating job market confronting them? These questions form the empirical and organizational bases upon which these studies are founded.

Jennifer Birkett holds the established Chair of French Studies at the University of Birmingham. Her publications include books and articles on nineteenth-century Decadence and on twentieth-century women's writing in French and English. She is co-author of the Macmillan Guide to French Literature and co-editor of the Longman Critical Reader on Samuel Beckett. She has been publishing research on Storm Jameson since 1992, and has recently completed a literary biography foregrounding Jameson's triple commitment to her regional, national and European heritage. Chiara Briganti has been Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton College, U.S.A, and is now Research Fellow at Kings College London and Visiting Lecturer at New York University-London. She has published on Victorian and Modern British literature and postcolonial literatures. Her books include Anche tu, figlia mia: figlie e padri nelle letterature anglofone and Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel and E. H. Young with Kathy Mezei, with whom she has also co-edited Rethinking Domestic Space: A Forum for the journal Signs.

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ISBN 13	9780333408650
ISBN 10	0333408659
Title	Beckett: Waiting for Godot
Author	Jennifer Birkett
Series	Master Guides
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	1987-04-09
Number of pages	96
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