Social resilience in facing precarity: Young people ‘rising to the occasion
(2019) Negotiating early job insecurity well-being, scarring and resilience of European youth — ISBN: [9781788118781], published
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- This chapter focuses on the mechanisms underlying social resilience. It concentrates on individuals who successfully coped with precarious employment when young. The capability approach and the concept of social resilience are used jointly. The capability approach allows us to identify the factors of conversion that helped transform (im)material resources into valuable outcomes. The concept of social resilience qualifies the individual negotiation process (coping, adaptive, transformative). We analysed lifecourse interviews of individuals living in Norway and the UK – two countries with distinctive youth transition regimes- to grasp in the interactions between institutional structure and individual agency. Both countries present examples of adaptive and transformative resilience, but factors of conversion are different. Education coupled with institutional support from public employment service was relevant conversion factors for young Norwegians. In contrast, the UK the voluntary sector, informal networks, and education were more likely to fill the gap of a non-punitive support system.
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Bussi, M., Anne McDonnell, Mi Ah Schoyen, Jannike Solstad Vedeler, & Jacqueline O’Reilly. (2019). Social resilience in facing precarity: Young people ’rising to the occasion. In Bjørn Hvinden, Jacqueline O’Reilly, Mi Ah Schoyen and Christer Hyggen (eds.) (ed.), Negotiating early job insecurity well-being, scarring and resilience of European youth. Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118798