Mizen, Phil (1990) Young people's experiences of the Youth Training Scheme : a case study of recent state intervention in the youth labour market. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

The Youth Training Scheme (YTS) is a state sponsored
training programme for 16 and 17 year old schoolleavers.
This thesis sets out to explore how young
people experience leaving school and enter the YTS. It
draws on data generated by a one-off survey of fifth
form school pupils, semi-structured interviews amongst
a sample of YTS trainees and previously unpublished
figures from the Training Agency's 1 100% Follow-Up
Survey of YTS Leavers'. The thesis takes some of the
key assumptions and assertions on which YTS' claimed
successes have been built and examines them in relation
to the actual ways in which young people make sense of,
and cope with, the transition from school to a training
scheme.
There has been much written about the development of
YTS but there is an acknowledged dearth of information
on the views and experiences of young people
themselves. In addressing this problem, the thesis
provides an addition to the existing body of
sociological knowledge relating to young people and
their movement into the labour market. Furthermore, the
thesis addresses some important policy considerations
relating to Britain's continued inability to provide
youngsters with quality training for jobs.
Contrary to claims that YTS has 'revolutionized' young
people's attitudes towards training and the labour
market, the research illustrates its continued failure
to provide them with a credible training alternative on
leaving school. YTS fails to grasp the significance of
work for many working class youngsters, as they grow up
and prepare to leave school, and so ignores their
consequent ambivalence towards the training package
offered by the Scheme. In addition, it illustrates that
YTS has failed to provide youngsters with a period of
quality foundation training and explores some of the
mechanisms that account for the Scheme's chronic
inability to retain youngsters for the full length of
their training programmes. It also explores young
people's attitudes towards compulsory training and
concludes with some pointers as to the likely
achievements of its successor, Youth Training.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Teenagers -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Teenagers -- Training of -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Labor policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Official Date:	September 1990
Dates:	Date Event September 1990 Submitted
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Department of Sociology
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Procter, Ian, 1947-
Sponsors:	Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC)
Extent:	xi, 367 leaves
Language:	eng

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