Book chapter
Recognising Young People as 'Real' Workers and the Employment Implications of Framing Young Workers as Deficient
Work and Identity: Contemporary Perspectives on Workplace Diversity, pp.55-68
Palgrave Explorations in Workplace Stigma, Palgrave Macmilln
2018
Abstract
This chapter explores the impact of deficit discourses on the developing occupational identity of young workers and how this shapes assessments of their capacity to be a ‘good’ worker. Drawing from studies of young workers’ experiences of paid and unpaid work, we explore the ways that employers characterise the employability and work performance of young workers and find that employers characterise young workers as deficient in terms of their skills profile, work ethic and personal attributes. Although young workers often do not challenge these characterisations of themselves, these framings shape young workers’ understanding of their value as a worker.
Details
- Title
- Recognising Young People as 'Real' Workers and the Employment Implications of Framing Young Workers as Deficient
- Authors
- Robin Price - Central Queensland UniversityDeanna Grant-Smith - Queensland University of Technology
- Contributors
- Shalene Werth (Editor) - University of Southern QueenslandCharlotte Brownlow (Editor) - University of Southern Queensland
- Publication details
- Work and Identity: Contemporary Perspectives on Workplace Diversity, pp.55-68
- Series
- Palgrave Explorations in Workplace Stigma
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmilln
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-73936-6_5; 10.1007/978-3-319-73936-6
- ISSN
- 2662-3633
- ISBN
- 9783319739366
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991016468102621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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