Young people and social change in Sunderland De-industrialisation and cultural change

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The research is set within the particular context of change and crisis in Sunderland.It employs understandings of wider processes of structural change in articulation with the effects of history and sedimentation within a particular place.To these processes are brought issues of youth in transition as a point of personal crisis.The main axes which structure the account are those of class, gender and place because they so clearly emerged from the research as the significant sources of division in experience.The thesis is an exploration of the relative importance of structure and agency.In achieving this account it uses empirical research into the particular conditions experienced by young people in Sunderland to exemplify processes of structure, collective and individual action.The research is based in semi-structured interviewing and seeks to discover the effects of fundamental processes of restructuring, changing gender composition of the workforce, the quantity and quality of work, u

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