Towards a revaluation of work in post-Fordist societies? Critical reconversions of highly skilled youth and negotiations of fluid relationships with work.

Autor/inn/en	Stavrou, Sophia; Achniotis, Panos
Titel	Towards a revaluation of work in post-Fordist societies? Critical reconversions of highly skilled youth and negotiations of fluid relationships with work. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Auf dem Weg zu einer Neubewertung der Arbeit in postfordistischen Gesellschaften? Kritische Rekonversionen hochqualifizierter Jugendlicher und Verhandlungen über fließende Beziehungen zur Arbeit.
Quelle	In: Journal of youth studies, 26 (2023) 2, S. 250-268 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1367-6261; 1469-9680
DOI	10.1080/13676261.2021.2010685
Schlagwörter	Wissensgesellschaft; Sozialer Wert; Einstellung (Psy); Einstellungsänderung; Selbstverwirklichung; Unsicherheit; Arbeit; Berufswechsel; Beschäftigung; Unterbeschäftigung; Wirtschaftskrise; Einstellungsänderung; Zypern; Auswirkung; Selbstverwirklichung; Individualisierung; Unsicherheit; Mismatch; Individualisierung; Wertewandel; Mismatch; Unterbeschäftigung; Wirtschaftskrise; Alternative Erwerbsform; Arbeit; Berufswechsel; Beschäftigung; Auswirkung; Unternehmungsgeist; Hochschulabsolvent; Hoch Qualifizierter; Junger Erwachsener; Zypern
Abstract	"This article investigates young university graduates who actively engage with critical reconversion processes in their relationship to work, by abandoning a relevant field of study and embarking on self-made projects in other areas. They are motivated by meaningfulness, freedom and creativity, albeit having to remain in underemployment or even unemployment. The flexibility of young workers and the individual capacity to reconvert have been at the core of policy discourse for the knowledge economy. There is, however, little evidence of youth experience of mismatch and reconversion trajectories, especially for highly skilled youth. Based on biographical narratives of graduates in Cyprus, this article investigates transformations in young people's relation to work in a context of economic crisis and precarity. The findings suggest that new fluid relationships with work are being negotiated by young people, moving across the boundaries of matched and mismatched employment, work and non-work. These are founded on the development of new subjectivities that put into question the social construction of work and its relation to value for youth in post-Fordist societies. For these young people from upper-middle classes, a compromise seems to be forged between an agentive stance of search for emancipation and embodied neoliberal imperatives of the knowledge society." The study refers to the period 2019-2021. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2023/1