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Simmons, Robin; Smyth, John – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2016
This paper uses the Habermasian concept of legitimation crisis to critique the relationship between post-compulsory education and training and the chronic levels of youth unemployment and under-employment which now characterise post-industrial Western economies, such as the UK. It draws on data from an ethnographic study of the lives of young…
Descriptors: Criticism, Employment, Correlation, Ethnography