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Youth Unemployment and Social Exclusion

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Young People in Transition

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Tackling social exclusion has been a priority for recent UK governments. Social scientists continue to debate whether the concept has any real analytical value or whether it is just a politically acceptable way of acknowledging widespread poverty and unemployment (Burchardt, 2000; Byrne, 1999; Hills et al., 2002; Roberts, 1997). Recent governments, in contrast, have treated social exclusion as a hard fact, one of the tougher problems (not, of course, of their own making) that they have been required to address.

The research on which this chapter is based was founded by INTAS (award 93-2693) and ACE/PHARE (award P95-2141R).

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Leicester, UK

    Christopher Pole (Reader in Sociology) & Jane Pilcher (Senior Lecturer in Sociology) (Reader in Sociology) &  (Senior Lecturer in Sociology)

  2. Centre for the Sociology of Sport, University of Leicester, UK

    John Williams (Director) (Director)

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Roberts, K. (2005). Youth Unemployment and Social Exclusion. In: Pole, C., Pilcher, J., Williams, J. (eds) Young People in Transition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597778_7

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