#Youth Unemployment

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Tish Murtha, From the Series Youth Unemplyment, Newcastle, 1981

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Not my new job not only being a pyramid scheme but also the bosses being fucking zionists

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From NE photographer Trish Murtha's series YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT (1981)

The British childhood is a rare combination of abject misery and risk of harm.

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Historic Political Shift in Botswana as Ruling Party Loses Majority

Historic Shift in Botswana’s Political Landscape The ruling party in Botswana, which has held power since the nation gained independence in 1966, faced a significant setback in the recent national elections. Results announced on Friday morning revealed that the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has lost its absolute majority in Parliament for the first time in history. Preliminary results suggest…

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Omar Abdullah's Challenges as Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister

Omar Abdullah returns as Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, but his journey is filled with hurdles. From restoring statehood to tackling youth unemployment and reviving tourism, his leadership will be tested like never before. 🌄✨

Omar Abdullah’s Tough Road Ahead: Key Challenges for Jammu and Kashmir’s New Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s return to the position of Chief Minister in Jammu and Kashmir, after a politically significant win in the 2024 elections, has sparked renewed hope for the region. However, Abdullah’s second term comes with numerous challenges, particularly as he steers the region through the post-Article…

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Thousands of Youths Depart from Jamshedpur for Ranchi Rally Amid Police Resistance

Led by Gunjan Yadav and Amit Agarwal, thousands of youths left Jamshedpur for the ‘Yuva Jan Akrosh Rally,’ facing resistance from police on NH-33. Thousands of youths, under the leadership of former BJP District President Gunjan Yadav and BJP Yuva Morcha State Minister Amit Agarwal, departed from Jamshedpur to participate in the ‘Yuva Jan Akrosh Rally.’ JAMSHEDPUR – Despite confronting police…

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FG Pleads with Nigerians: "Nationwide Protest Planned, But It's a Family Matter—Give Us Time"

On the brink of a nationwide protest, tensions rise as the Federal Government (FG) of Nigeria makes a plea to its citizens: “It’s a family matter, give us time.” This appeal comes amidst growing dissatisfaction over a range of issues, from economic hardships to political grievances, and encapsulates the delicate balance between governance and public sentiment in one of Africa’s most populous…

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"The Canadian Youth Commission, which owed its very creation in 1940 to the King government’s recognition of the Depression’s toll on the young, emphasized how the experience had imprinted this generation. Surveying youth organizations across the nation, the CYC

quickly discovered that no one under thirty remembered normal times. . . . So deep are the scars left upon Canadian youth from the Depression years that any of their discussions of postwar employment were prefaced . . . by reference back to what had been and what must never come again.

As one Quebec youth group submitted, unemployment caused more damage among young people than among adults:

It confuses them in a period of adaptation and development, undermines their confidence in life and can even destroy their latent possibilities.

The CYC’s final report on this topic, Youth and Jobs, urged national responsibility for full employment. The commission wanted to see programs for youth aged sixteen to twenty-one that offered paid work “of varied kinds” as well as physical, vocational and citizenship training, the latter to ensure “the experience of democratic living.” Remembering the Depression’s army-regulated work camps for single unemployed men, the majority of youth polled expressed their opposition to any idea of compulsory national service. Instead they called for “projects of general value” that offered “real wages,” including conservation; construction of rural schools, libraries, parks, shelters, and tennis courts; and a variety of possible services to public and private agencies. The “real objective” of the plan would be the development of “good citizens who would find a normal place for themselves in the life of the community.” Like their elders, the young adopted the language of citizenship and national welfare—a language that obviously held much resonance for Canadians of this time—to promote their generational ends.

By 1940, three broad youth-employment trends had become evident. First, not surprisingly, the wide-open field of unskilled and semi-skilled labour remained the predominant employer of the youngest among the under-twenties; second, white-collar vocations, represented by the clerical and professional occupations, did not recruit substantial numbers until the ages of seventeen or eighteen; third, the level “distinguished either by seniority and experience or extended education” recruited hardly at all before the age of twenty-one and often long after that age. Recruitment to the skilled trades among workers under twenty-one was relatively small-scale, although, as discussed, it had been showing some signs of growth before the crash of 1929. For urban youths, the largest occupational fields appeared to “wax and then wane” in rhythm with their stage of adolescence, some very early and others toward the end. The lowest service category, comprising store delivery boys, messengers, bellboys, and predominantly female domestic servants, lost members rapidly as early as the age of seventeen, a “mortality” that characterized the so-called blind-alley or stopgap occupation. While some young Canadians moved on of their own accord, with a “noticeable influx” to the intermediate manual groups at the ages of seventeen and eighteen, these were lines of work where younger employees were actually most in demand. By the age of seventeen, “boys’ rates” had to be raised, making it more profitable for employers to replace the maturing delivery boy from a younger and cheaper reserve. Likewise, the intermediate service sector, although open slightly longer, was fairly closed to persons over twenty-one years old. The largest category open to the under-twenties, therefore, was unskilled industrial work, mainly light factory jobs. Yet the ephemeral nature of work in this area is revealed in the fact that it also accounted for the largest number of the unemployed.

Published on the eve of World War II, Leonard Marsh’s employment study concluded on an ominous note where jobs for Canadian adolescents, most particularly future male breadwinners, were concerned:

The narrowing of opportunity on the very threshold of manhood thus backs up on itself . . . a large part of the fund of labour which in the ’teens may seem to have wide scope.

Some young workers might feel the pressure after their first job, at fifteen or sixteen; others experienced it at nineteen or twenty, when the supply of unskilled labour was enlarged by migrants from the farm and overseas, who tended to be somewhat older, and when learner posts were much harder to find, with most provinces adhering to an upper age limit of twenty-one years for formal apprenticeship. Young women encountered the restraining effects of market demand even sooner. The service category, already disproportionately composed of women, contained fewer eighteen and nineteen year olds than any other age, while the numbers of “light” factory workers among women also declined after the age of twenty. Marriage partly explains the decline, but age was also an important factor: there was more demand for younger girls in these areas, and younger girls—with little or no experience and consequently few alternatives—were also more likely to take up the jobs. Cheap female labour was typically a little younger than cheap male labour as a result. Sharing a common view, Marsh argued that young women’s own attitudes and ambitions most often shaped their prospects. He conceded, however, that modern industry’s growing dependence on young unskilled female labour, and the evidence of oversupply in white-collar fields, made it impossible to regard the problem of training and entry-level positions for youth “as only a male one.”

None of these findings about the youth labour market and the nature of employment during the interwar years is startling. By World War II, employment beyond the dead-end or blind-alley jobs was contingent on the education of the job-seeker—a fact underscored by the economic crisis just ending. Put simply, the steadier, better-paying, and more promising jobs accrued to the better-schooled—and therefore usually older—of the youth sector, especially among young men. The data call into question any notion of a “golden age” for unskilled youth employment that might have existed before schooling or specialized training, as well as maturity, were requisite. Gaining entry into the world of wage labour, especially for those who left school before age sixteen, was challenging simply because of their age. The majority of that group stepped into adulthood as cheap and dispensable labour. Nor was this simply an outcome of the Depression. Long-term structural changes in production meant that modern commerce and industry had fewer places than formerly for beginners, the vast majority of whom were under twenty. Many of the unskilled jobs customarily the lot of the young were now performed by machinery; many of the new jobs resulting from production changes required the skills, or at least the experience base, of older workers. In fact, reasoned the Canadian Youth Commission, in “a great majority” of cases, even when the work was classified “unskilled,” jobs called for “a certain physical and mental maturity” and “a degree of emotional stability” that Canadian youth, “from the very fact that they are young,” could not be expected to have. It was generally believed that, where under-eighteens were employed, “the usual experience” was higher costs to the employer because of age related higher accident rates, breakage and wastage, the extra supervision required, and the higher rates of turnover.

Technological advances had made increased training a prerequisite of employment. For many young Canadians, certain occupational paths were thus closed: their families lacked the means to provide for this training. This was especially the case in the category of white-collar and professional employment, the means of entrance into which were tightly class-, race-, and gender-delimit- ed as well as age-defined. The CYC’s 1943 national youth opinion survey showed that 40 per cent of young Canadians would enter the professions if they could, in stark contrast to the 5 to 6 per cent of high school students who actually went on to the university courses that the professions demanded—and the population of high school students, while steadily on the rise, still represented less than half of the public school population. Most commentators were agreed that education, including vocational guidance, was the solution. What was needed above all was “a detailed occupational outlook service for the whole school leaving population,” which would allow for “constructive and scientific planning for Canadian youth."

- Cynthia Comacchio, The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920-1950. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2006. p. 154-156.

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The Mental Health Crisis Fueled by Corrupt Governance: A Call for Change

Bismark Kwabla Kpobi, Executive Director of ASK Health Advocacy Foundation, has raised serious concerns about the detrimental impact of government corruption on the mental health of citizens. Despite being endowed with abundant natural resources such as gold, bauxite, timber, crude oil, and cocoa, the populace continues to suffer due to the self-serving and corrupt practices of government…

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SEW-OP - sewing up co-operation!

Creating employment one stitch at a time...

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Finding work for this generation remains a challenge. Unemployment is a ticking time bomb because close to a third of the nation's youth aren't working, studying or under training, according to the World Bank. Some are getting drawn into crime and violence. Last year, angry young people facing bleak job prospects blocked rail traffic and highways, even setting some trains on fire. Pankaj Tiwari, 28, says he paid ₹ 1,00,000 for a master's degree in digital communication because he wanted a job and higher status in society. That was a big outlay for his family, which has an annual income of ₹ 4,00,000. Though his college had promised campus placements, no company turned up and he's still unemployed four years later. "If I had received some training and skills in college, my situation would have been different. Now, I feel like I wasted my time," said Mr Tiwari. "I just secured certificates on paper, but those are of no use."

‘India's Worthless Degrees Undercut World's Fastest-Growing Major Economy’, NDTV

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Concept and original sketch: Marty West Original cartoon: Carly Nabess (2017) Colour version: Quynh Vien (2023) Available in two-sided T-shirt. Contact Marty West at clickmartoons@gmail.com

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man everytime i'm watching a video on another country and it says it has a high youth unemployment rate and that rate is like. 15%. i want to stare at the sea with my hands behind my back forever

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Housing Minister Sean Fraser said Sunday that the federal government will curb the number of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) coming into the country after a post-COVID surge that some researchers say has driven up youth and immigrant unemployment rates. Speaking to reporters in Dartmouth, N.S., before the start of a Liberal cabinet retreat in neighbouring Halifax, Fraser justified the government's past decision — made while he was immigration minister — to relax regulations around the TFW program as necessary at a time of pandemic-related staff shortages. But he acknowledged that the dynamic is different now that there are signs of stress in the labour market. Unemployment rates among immigrants and young people have crept up to concerning levels in recent months, according to federal data.

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BJP Youth Wing Takes Out Massive Protest Rally Against Hemant Government in Jamshedpur

Torch Rally Highlights Unfulfilled Promises and Alleged Corruption BJYM Jamshedpur stages torch rally, accusing Hemant Soren government of betraying youth and engaging in corruption. JAMSHEDPUR – The BJP’s youth wing organized a torch rally in Jamshedpur to protest against the Hemant Soren government’s alleged anti-youth policies and corruption. Thousands of party workers participated in the…