Presents youth employment as the principal casualty of cities' transformation from manufacturing- to service-oriented economies. They have been squeezed out of growth sectors and are increasingly employed in retail industries with few opportunities to work with adults or acquire meaningful skills. School-based interventions are proposed. (SA)

Legitimizing consumer maintenance as an occupation would allow women to accept the fact that at the moment they have more options than men; it would also hasten the time when society will allow men to retain their dignity while at household tasks (traditionally women's) with the wife's income as financial support. (Author)