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New deal or raw deal? Dilemmas and paradoxes of state interventions into the youth labour market

Weil, Susan; Percy-Smith, Barry

Authors

Susan Weil

Barry Percy-Smith



Contributors

Mark Cieslik
Editor

Gary Pollock
Editor

Citation

Weil, S., & Percy-Smith, B. (2002). New deal or raw deal? Dilemmas and paradoxes of state interventions into the youth labour market. In M. Cieslik, & G. Pollock (Eds.), Young People in Risk Society: The Restructuring of Youth Identities and Transitions in Late Modernity (117-136). Ashgate

Publication Date Apr 17, 2002
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Pages 117-136
Book Title Young People in Risk Society: The Restructuring of Youth Identities and Transitions in Late Modernity
ISBN 9780754616948
Keywords New Deal, state intervention, labour market, young people
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1078366
Additional Information Additional Information : Along with the work of Professor Karen Evans, this article offered an early analysis of the New Deal initiative. It used an innovative multi-methodological research approach that included the voices of both young people and professionals. The article exposes the paradoxes and tensions at the heart of an espoused 'client centred' approach to policy implementation of an initiative that at the same time, places a high value on coercion, compulsion and surveillance. The analysis shows the double binds this creates for professionals and young people alike, who become caught up in what the chapter terms 'the illusion of choice and the charade of opportunity' (p.10). It also illustrates how the operation of the policy reinforces the 'cultural deficit' paradigm that has already failed most of those young multiply disadvantaged people. Weil was responsible for 50%.


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