Global Youth Unemployment History, Governance and Policy
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Ross Fergusson, Professor of Social Policy and Youth Policy and Nicola Yeates, Professor of Social Policy, The Open University, UK<i>‘It is fantastic reading, and the overall recommendation is that this book deserves a broad readership. Academics, first of all, since they represent a transmission of the assumptions to a broader spectre of students who need to get familiar with the outcomes of the perspectives promoted by Ferguson and Yeates.’ </i>
- Niels Rosendal Jensen, European Journal of Social Work,
<i>‘The two authors are very dear and consistent with respect to their purpose, which is a merit to them. In turn, it makes it easier to understand and discuss their viewpoint. For practitioners, the main interest may be to learn how public support and public governance is creating youth unemployment too. This is neither a novelty - except for a truism: it offers another opportunity to consider what professionals are accepting, and what they should not accept.’</i>
- Niels Rosendal, European Journal of Social Work,
<i>‘This book is a manifesto of global social policy. </i>...Global Youth Unemployment<i> features a strong empirical analysis underpinning its major arguments. With an extensive collection of the worldwide employment data from various sources, Fergusson and Yeates convincingly portrait the characteristics of the youth labor forces and the profiles of endemic YU. The extent of data compilation across the regions and over time is remarkable, illustrating the steady rise of YU globally. ...Fergusson and Yeates also demonstrate their excellent expertise in the historical development of global policies toward YU. ...For social policy scholarship, this book sheds new light on a centuries-old social question by linking (un-)employment with the structural transformations of the global economy, and how the latter adversely impact on the youth cohorts of the Global North and South alike.’</i>
- Shih-Jiunn Shi, The Developing Economies,
<i>‘Recommended. The text will serve as a valuable reference, providing extensive data sets while offering an important read for anyone interested in social welfare and contemporary public policy.’</i>
- S.R. Kahn, CHOICE,
<i>‘</i>Global Youth Unemployment: History, Governance and Policy<i> by Ross Fergusson and Nicola Yeates is a remarkable book: conceptually rich and empirically epic, it deserves to have a major impact on the study of social policy, and indeed across the social sciences more generally . . . There have been few, if any, books which detail so convincingly and originally the cross-border determinants of youth unemployment. The data presented in the book’s empirical chapter[s] is comprehensive, indeed, almost exhaustive … from a vast array of sources . . . The authors fit the pieces of the puzzle together masterfully . . . </i>Global Youth Unemployment<i> is full of rich and innovative argumentation.’</i>
- Craig Berry, British Journal of Industrial Relations,
<i>'Rarely has a study of global youth unemployment so adeptly combined an empirically-grounded scrutiny of its levels and trends, with a conceptually nuanced analysis of its political economy drivers at multiple scales. Fergusson and Yeates make a compelling case for seeing endemic youth unemployment as an issue of grave social injustice-one that supply-side palliative approaches have patently failed to address, and which is in urgent need of integrated employment, social protection and macroeconomic policies backed by a more cohesive system of social and economic governance at the global level.'</i>
- Shahra Razavi, Director of the Social Protection Department, International Labour Organization, Switzerland,
<i>'This is a timely assessment of a global crisis that has been greatly worsened by the Covid pandemic slump. Youth make up a large percentage of the global precariat, and as the authors convincingly demonstrate, their unemployment has long been huge, with enormous global social and economic consequences. Unless income security can be provided on a worldwide basis there will be justified social unrest.'</i>
- Guy Standing, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London, UK,
<i>'Youth unemployment, as a social policy and social movement issue, now has its definitive treatment in this magnificent book by Ross Fergusson and Nicola Yeates. Going beyond methodological nationalism it outlines lucidly the causes of endemic youth unemployment on a global scale. It calls for a Global Compact for Youth Employment to address the scandalous fact that nearly half of the world’s unemployed are between 15 and 24 years of age. This is historically grounded, policy relevant, critical analysis at its best.'</i>
- Ronaldo Munck, Professor of Political Sociology, Dublin City University, Ireland,
The authors' innovative exploration is holistic in approach and committed to analyses that span histories, territories, academic disciplines and policy contexts. Providing new statistical examination of the incidence, distribution, impacts and putative causes, this book presents a highly original interpretation of youth unemployment and its global governance. It calls for urgently-needed robust responses on a global scale.
Global Youth Unemployment is essential reading for students and academics within the fields of social, labour, public and economic policy as well as policy makers within the youth employment and unemployment sectors.