Youth in Transition: In Eastern Europe and the West
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Map of Europe -- 1 Introduction -- Eastern Europe and the west -- Communism and post-communism -- Youth's new condition in Eastern Europe -- Studying youth -- Issues in youth studies -- Book plan and sources of evidence -- 2 Labour markets -- Introduction -- Shock therapy -- Youth on the move -- Winners -- Summary and conclusions -- 3 Education -- Introduction -- Communist education -- Euro-modernisation -- Euro-convergence -- The American alternative -- The Americanisation of education in Eastern Europe -- Gender in education and the labour market -- Summary and conclusions: education and global youth in the 21st century -- 4 Individualisation and the reflexive self -- Introduction -- Individualisation -- Reflexivity -- Post-communism -- Persistent systemic inequalities -- Summary and conclusions: structured individualisation -- 5 Housing and family transitions and gender divisions -- Introduction -- A brief history of western practices -- Eastern Europe -- Crisis -- Gender -- Summary and conclusions, and the contemporary relevance of the transition paradigm -- 6 Leisure -- Introduction -- Online youth -- The legacy of the 1990s -- Young people's leisure in post-communist Eastern Europe -- The reforms: the leisure debits -- Youth cultures -- The stratification of youth lifestyles -- Endnote -- Summary and conclusions -- 7 Class divisions -- Introduction -- What is class? -- Classes under communism -- Class structure and social change in the west -- Class in Eastern Europe after communism -- Young people in the new class systems -- Class and political representation -- Summary and conclusions -- 8 Politics -- Introduction -- Young people and politics under communism -- 1989 and what happened afterwards.