Bringing together contributions from international scholars, this book explores the changing nature of young people's transitions and challenges assumptions about pathways from education into employment in contemporary society.

JOHANNA BLUM is Scientific Researcher at the Austrian Institute for Youth Research, AustriaRACHEL BROOKS is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the Department of Political, International and Policy Studies at the University of Surrey, UK JAYNE BYE is Lecturer in Employment Relations in the School of Management at the University of Western Sydney, Australia MARK CIESLIK is Principal Lecturer in Sociology at Nottingham Trent University, UK VERNON GAYLE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Science at Stirling University, UK PAT GREEN is Principal Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton, UK DAVID HALL is Senior Lecturer in Applied Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK IRENE HALL is Research Fellow in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Liverpool, UK ROGER HARRIS is Professor and Director of the Centre for Research in Education, Equity and Work at the University of South Australia MARKKU JAHNUKAINEN is Lecturer and Docent in Special Education, University of Helsinki, Finland NOVIE JOHAN is Research Officer at the School of Management, University of Surrey, UK ANDREW KING is a Lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University, London, UK PAUL LAMBERT is Lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Science at Stirling University NICOLE MATTHEWS is Lecturer in Media, Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia SUSAN MURRAY is a research student at Stirling University, UK LINDA RAINEY is a career counsellor and researcher, having worked in tertiary careers services in Australia and the UK and with the Centre for Research in Equity, Education and Work, at the University of South Australia PAUL SCHEIBELHOFER is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Gender Studies at the Central European University, Budapest DONALD SIMPSON is Lecturer in Education in the School of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Teesside, UK MICHAEL TAGOE is Lecturer at the Institute of Adult Education, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana DEREK YOUNG is Research Fellow for ESCalate, the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Education, and is based within the Stirling Institute of Education, University of Stirling, UK NATALIA WAECHTER is Researcher at the Austrian Institute for Youth Research and lectures at the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria

List of Tables and Figures Notes on the Contributors Transitions from Education to Work: An Introduction;   R.Brooks PART I: CHANGING TRANSITIONS School-to-Work in the 1990s: Modelling Transitions with Large-scale Datasets;  V.Gayle, P.Lambert& S.Murray Interrogating the Notion of Transition: Learner Experiences of Multiple Transitions Between the Vocational and Higher Education Sectors;  R.Harris& L.Rainey PART II: MAKING TRANSITIONS Social Capital as Key for Successful School-to-Work Transitions? Analyzing Migrant Youths' Trajectories and Social Networks; N.Waechter, J.Blum& P.Scheibelhofer Living with Poor Basic Skills? The Role of 'Skills for Life' in Education-to-work Transitions;  M.Cieslik& D.Simpson Stories of Survival: The Struggle for Resiliency in the Post-institutional Life Course of Former Residential Education Students;  M.Jahnukainen PART III: EMERGING SITES OF TRANSITION The Relevance of University Education and Fears of Unemployment: Perceptions of University Students Making Transitions to the World of Work in Ghana;  M.Tagoe Gap Year Travel: Youth Transition or Youth Transformation?;  N.Johan The Role of Volunteering in the Transition from Higher Education to Work;  N.Matthews, P.Green, D.Hall& I.Hall PART IV: RETHINKING TRANSITIONS Education, Transition and e-Portfolios: Smoothing out the Bumps;  D.Young Governing School-to-work Transitions: Shaping the Future Worker;  J.Bye 'Mind the Gap': Reassessing Transitions to Adulthood using Young People's Accounts of Undertaking Short-term Employment;  A.King Conclusion;  R.Brooks Index