The generation that left school in the mid 1980s encountered a new world of work, politics and family life. How did they come to terms with the new routes into employment and the changing social and political terrain? Careers and Identities uses findings from the Economic and Social Research Council's 16-19 Initiative - an interdisciplinary programme of research on young people growing up in four areas of Britain - to chart their progress into adult life and to uncover the processes by which their adult occupational and political identities were established.
The generation that left school in the mid 1980s encountered a new world of work, politics and family life. How did they come to terms with the new routes into employment and the changing social and political terrain? Careers and Identities uses findings from the Economic and Social Research Council's 16-19 Initiative - an interdisciplinary programme of research on young people growing up in four areas of Britain - to chart their progress into adult life and to uncover the processes by which their adult occupational and political identities were established.