Precarious Employment

In "Working at McDonald's," Amitai Etzioni argues that early employment starting from high school may become advantageous for those teenagers in near future. Instead, the writer is inclined to believe that such job opportunities may prevent a teenager from studying, developing and improving, thus, granting them skills that they might not need at a well-paid job, if they had a chance to get one.

Furthermore, some people argue that it is not only the elderly who experience discrimination because of age. Young people also experience age discrimination in many ways. For instance young people often find it difficult to get started in employment market. Even though many young people who are working are paid minimum wage, there are 2.8 million children living at poverty in Britain, and young people are leaving universities with large student loans and graduate unemployment is high. According to Marxists the young provide cheap labour that can be fired or hired as necessary. Marxists would use the reserve army of labour for age groups at both ends of the spectrum.

     Jobs won’t only support teens for the things they want, but it can help benefit for the things they need. The first things teens think of for their future are going to college and getting their first car. But, let’s say there’s a well educated thirteen-year-old, raised in a low-income family, who has plans on going to college.

The key values and principles of youth work are to educate, empower, encourage participation and promote equality of opportunity and social inclusion. The principles of youth work are about offering services in places where young people can choose to participate, they encourage young people to be critical in their responses to their own experiences and to the world around them. Youth work is also about making young people more independent and helping them to make informed choices about their personal responsibilities within their community. These values and principles provide youth work with a purpose as well as

Schlosser illuminates how companies use the inexperience of a youthful workforce for financial gains and control through an appeal to ethos. The industry’s priorities revolve around the idea of personal gain, “[t]eenagers have been the perfect candidates for these jobs, not only because they are less expensive to hire than adults, but also because their youthful inexperience makes them easier to control” (Schlosser 68). With inexperience comes lack of knowledge, therefore, teens do not necessarily know what they should be paid, making it easier for companies to pay them whatever they like. In doing this, companies are able to keep more money for themselves without worrying about giving raises to employees, giving them

Furthermore, when It comes to children of poorer families trying to get a job at the age of 22, they still are going to face challenges compared to a child with money. Their parents won’t know as many connections compared to someone who works with high income people, who can help get a young adult a job.

Estes opens his article by comparing the youth of America to the youth of Japan. A “new census data released Thursday casts a shadow over the long-term impact of the recession on America's youth.” The census data show America that the youth had no jobs and there was a lot of youth that had no job. “ During the last decade, the unemployment rate for young people spiked to the highest levels since World War II”, after World War II people did not

I believe it is harder for youth in America to find work because of the thirty to fourty years olds are filling the less meaningful jobs like fast food or gerocery stores as a permanent job. This is no allowing the younger generation to work these jobs while in hogh school or even college. also believe that a large percentage of todays youth lack a strong work ethic and and want something for free. “Millennials are the worst generation. They’re lazy, unmotivated, disconnected and they want a trophy for every little thing they do.” Labor Force Participation Rate is defiend as “the percentage of the population that is either employed or unemployed that is, either working or actively seeking work. People with jobs are employed or People who are jobless, looking for a job, and available for work are unemployed. The labor force is made up of the employed and the unemployed. People who are neither employed nor unemployed are not in the labor force.”

Youth unemployment has been a constant problem in Australia for decades. In Treasurer Scott Morrison and the Coalition’s 2016-17 budget, a new plan focusing on helping young people join the workforce aims to drastically lower the youth unemployment rate over the next few years: the ‘Youth Jobs PaTH Program’. The $752 million dollar program aims to help up to 120,000 vulnerable young people over the next four years (Budget 2016-17, Queensland Government). However, there is a concern how effective the scheme will be, due to its emphasis on purely internships. Many argue that the Coalition’s youth unemployment scheme ‘Working Futures’ is a better option to lower youth unemployment, for its alternative structure and focus. To decide which one is best for Australia, both the Coalition and Labor Party’s scheme will be judged by analysing their social impacts upon the Australian youth.

Youth workers achieve this by creating circumstances which enable young people to feel comfortable with themselves, make and sustain personal relationships, reach their potential and find their place in society. Due to the nature of their work, youth workers form close relationships with the young people they engage with. These relationships are central to the youth work process. It is essentially a partnership, which allows the young people space to express themselves and provides an opportunity for learning which they may otherwise ignore. By utilising this relationship youth workers can offer essential support to the young people during the crucial stages of their development by befriending them, listening to them and advocating on their behalf. The importance of this relationship does not change when working with young people around issues such as alcohol. In fact, in many ways it actually benefits the facilitation of the

Academic obligations are not the only responsibilities for American high school students. One of the responsibilities that many students have is a job. The unemployment rate for teenagers is a mere 9.1 percent. The reasons why students work wildly vary. For some, it’s to earn

We are entering a new phase in world history - one in which fewer and fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population...For the whole of the modern era, people's worth has been measured by the market value of their labour...now new ways of defining human worth and social relationships will need to be explored (Rifkin 1996). Life has changed, globalisation and feminism have had a huge impact on the work environment around the world. Technology has also made many jobs redundant. Unemployment has become an issue all

  Nowadays, students love to have part-time jobs. Their parents approve it easily as they are said to gain experience from working. However, having a job is a big responsibility for a student. Before, teenagers at their age were working to help their family because of poverty. Nevertheless, they were actually eager to study and learn at school for their future. It was not the same as the teenagers nowadays where they are more likely competing to each other to have a job. Most of the

Furthermore, Nicholson and West (1990) argue that ‘in spite of research showing that moving from education to employment is typically not traumatic, it is probably the case that, on average, young people making a first transition from (full-time) education to (full-time) employment will have more learning to do than more experienced job-changers.’ (Arnold, 1997 pp.167-168.) Therefore, they have developed a ‘Transition Cycle,’ which involves four phases:

Money is an important component that can help ones to function properly in this society. However, money defines our self-worth and value in this society. For decades, unemployment has become a big issue in our community. The younger generation are the one who suffers the most from the crisis. In 2009 alone, 6.7 million youths joined the ranks of the unemployed, and compare this with an average annual increase of 191,000 in the 10 years before the crisis 1997 to 2007(Elder,2010). Youth unemployment is a crucial issue in our society. Unfortunately, a lot of young people are going through that situation. When it comes to find a job, young people are the less fortunate for many reasons. For instance, some employers might be biased on ages and believes that young people do not have skills or enough experiences to perform at the level required for the jobs. The problem of youth unemployment has many causes and consequences in our society. Youth unemployment can affect the economy, family relationship, increase crime rates and, mental health.