Understanding Youth in the Global Economic Crisis

In this innovative book, Professor Alan France tells the story of what impact the 2007 global crisis and the great recession that followed has had on our understandings of youth. Drawing on eight countries as case studies, he maps the growing influence of neoliberalism as a political strategy in each, showing how it is accelerating the reconfiguration of institutions and practices that are central to the lives of the young.

I would highly recommend this book to scholars and students of political economy, the life course, and youth studies and the transition to adulthood. The substantive arguments are engaging, and the mode of analysis-with its focus on the details of policies and cross-national comparisons and contrasts-will, I hope, influence future research in these fields.

• Michael J. Shanahan, University of Zurich