Youth Unemployment and Devolution: Civil Society and Street-Level Responses
Youth unemployment and work insecurity have been prevailing issues for governments across Western Europe since the 2008 financial crisis. These issues have intensified after Brexit and the pandemic, with young people consistently overrepresented in the gig economy and all forms of work insecurity.

Against a backdrop of increasingly mixed economies of welfare in the UK’s liberal welfare regime and work first policy narrative, this book explores civil society responses to youth unemployment in England, Scotland and Wales. Using original, empirical research to challenge the privileging of methodological nationalism in the study of welfare regimes, it analyses the scale and nature of policy and civil society responses to youth unemployment and work insecurity between three nations of the UK from the perspectives of policy makers, strategic thinkers and case workers delivering to young people on the ground.

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Youth Unemployment and Devolution: Civil Society and Street-Level Responses
Youth unemployment and work insecurity have been prevailing issues for governments across Western Europe since the 2008 financial crisis. These issues have intensified after Brexit and the pandemic, with young people consistently overrepresented in the gig economy and all forms of work insecurity.

Against a backdrop of increasingly mixed economies of welfare in the UK’s liberal welfare regime and work first policy narrative, this book explores civil society responses to youth unemployment in England, Scotland and Wales. Using original, empirical research to challenge the privileging of methodological nationalism in the study of welfare regimes, it analyses the scale and nature of policy and civil society responses to youth unemployment and work insecurity between three nations of the UK from the perspectives of policy makers, strategic thinkers and case workers delivering to young people on the ground.

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Youth Unemployment and Devolution: Civil Society and Street-Level Responses

Youth Unemployment and Devolution: Civil Society and Street-Level Responses

by Sioned Pearce
Youth Unemployment and Devolution: Civil Society and Street-Level Responses

Youth Unemployment and Devolution: Civil Society and Street-Level Responses

by Sioned Pearce

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Youth unemployment and work insecurity have been prevailing issues for governments across Western Europe since the 2008 financial crisis. These issues have intensified after Brexit and the pandemic, with young people consistently overrepresented in the gig economy and all forms of work insecurity.

Against a backdrop of increasingly mixed economies of welfare in the UK’s liberal welfare regime and work first policy narrative, this book explores civil society responses to youth unemployment in England, Scotland and Wales. Using original, empirical research to challenge the privileging of methodological nationalism in the study of welfare regimes, it analyses the scale and nature of policy and civil society responses to youth unemployment and work insecurity between three nations of the UK from the perspectives of policy makers, strategic thinkers and case workers delivering to young people on the ground.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781447364351
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Publication date: 08/19/2025
Series: Civil Society and Social Change
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sioned Pearce is Lecturer in Social Policy at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.

Table of Contents

1. Youth unemployment, work insecurity and territorial rescaling

2. Youth policy, work and welfare

3. A decentralised, street-level approach to analysis

4. Devolved civil society approaches

5. Devolved civil society networks

6. Street-level, cross-jurisdictional perspectives

7. Ideologically driven, peripheral policy innovation

8. Conclusions

Appendix: Detail and history of youth employment policy in the UK, England, Scotland and Wales

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