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This book promotes an alternative impact on youth policy in Europe to overcome the situation of vulnerability and discrimination of a growing number of young people in their transition from school to work. It follows a human development perspective in using the Capability Approach (CA) as an analytical and methodological guiding tool to improve the social conditions of the most socially vulnerable young people in European societies. Contributions from the interdisciplinary authors aim to expand the actual chances of the young to actively shape their lives in a way they have reason to choose and value. This book is based on the research of the European Union (EU) Collaborative Project 'Making Capabilities Work' (WorkAble), funded by the EU within the Seventh Framework Programme. It is the first empirical project to pursue a justice theory perspective on a European level. It also contributes to a fundamental change in, it is argued, the currently mostly insufficient attempts within the human capital approach to use the labour market to ensure desired lifestyle forms and a secure income for vulnerable youth.

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Part one, 'Capability perspective on vulnerable youth in Europe', contains the following chapters: Towards a capabilities perspective on vulnerable young people in Europe: an introduction / Holger Ziegler, Thierry Berthet, Roland Atzmuller, Jean-Michel Bonvin, Christian Christrup Kjeldsen (pages 3-17); The capability approach, education and the labour market / Christian Christrup Kjeldsen, Jean-Michel Bonvin (pages 19-34). Part two, 'Changes of welfare policies and the role of the capability approach', contains: Multilevel governance and capability approach: what convergence? / Thierry Berthet (pages 37-51); New conditions for professional work or the fall of professions?: on managerialism and professionalism / Holger Ziegler and Niels Rosendal Jensen (pages 53-70). Part three, 'Capability perspectives on institutionalized education', contains: Free choice of education?: capabilities, possibility spaces, and incapacitations of education, labor, and the way of living one values / Dirk Michel-Schertges (pages 73-86); European universities and educational and occupational intergenerational social mobility / Marek Kwiek (pages 87-111). Part four, 'Capabilities, labour market and education in Europe', contains: Operationalisation of the capability approach / Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, Valerie Egdell, Emma Hollywood, and Ronald McQuaid (pages 115-139); Labour market trajectories and young Europeans' capabilities to avoid poverty, social exclusion and dependency: a comparative analysis of 23 European countries / Bjorn Hallerod and Hans Ekbrand (pages 141-158); Would active labour market policies enhance youth capability for work in Europe? / Marion Lambert, Josiane Vero, Hans Ekbrand, and Bjorn Hallerod (pages 159-180); Critical aspects of the transformation of work and welfare from a capability perspective / Roland Atzmuller (pages 181-198). Part five, 'Capabilities for voice, work and education: critial analysis of programmes for disadvantaged young people in Europe' contains: Capabilities for voice, work and education: critial analysis of programmes for disadvantaged young people in Europe / Lavinia Bilfulco, Valerie Egdell, Ronald McQuaid, Thierry Berthet, Veronique Simon, Raffaele Monteleone, Carlotta Mozzana, Emilie Rosenstein, Mael Dif-Pradalier, Jean-Michel Bonvin, Emma Hollywood, Niels Rosendal Jensen, Christian Christrup Kjeldsen, Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska, Marianna Zielenska, Bettina Haidinger, Ruth Kasper, Jan Duker, Thomas Ley, and Gunilla Bergstrom (pages 201-357). Part six, 'EU youth strategies from a capability perspective', contains: Employability versus capability: European strategies for young people / Regine Schroer (pages 361-386). Show less