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Revista Psicologia Organizações e Trabalho

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Abstract

BLANCH, Josep M. The NEET youth, a psychosocial black hole. Rev. Psicol., Organ. Trab. [online]. 2014, vol.14, n.4, pp. 355-366. ISSN 1984-6657.

The overall objective of this paper is to describe and discuss, based on a literature review, the current situation of the "NEET" phenomenon, concerning young people Not in Employment, Education or Training, with special attention to its European development, particularly in Spain, articulating five major criteria of exposure: (a) the historical and cultural context of its emergence and expansion, (b) its relationship with socioeconomic megatrends and metamorphosis, such as the crisis of the full stable employment wage society, the deregulation of labor relations, and the rise of precarious working conditions under its new flexible management, which determine the transition to post-Fordism, (c) empirical information accumulated on its typology and prevalence, (d) the socio-political discourses and theoretical readings concerning its causes and consequences, and subsequent proposals for coping, and (e) reflection and discussion of its theoretical and practical implications in terms of the need to rethink constructs such as youth, citizenship, transition from school to work, or employment guidance.

Keywords : youth; underemployment; precariousness; exclusion; transition.

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