The Crisis of Global Youth Unemployment.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Global laborscapes of youth unemployment: Introduction -- Global laborscapes -- Contours of global unemployment -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 2. Youth unemployment and unnecessary intergenerational conflict -- Young and in trouble -- A few -- stylized facts" -- Economic theory and youth unemployment -- Elementary economics and unpleasant arithmetic -- Squandered youth -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- 3. Precarity in Japan: After the "Lost Decade" -- Interpreting youth unemployment and precarity -- Japanese capitalism and precariousness -- The language of precarity and precarious labor: creating the lost generation? -- Precarity: challenges and opportunities -- Conclusion: accounting for and the consequences of precarity in Japan -- Notes -- References -- 4. Youth "volunteers," unemployment, and international action in Pakistan's health sector: "I need money, that's the only reason I do it" -- The context of female youth labor in Pakistan -- The larger political-economic context -- The global polio eradication initiative -- Volunteerism in global health -- Polio eradication's volunteers -- The polio worker murders -- Rethinking volunteerism -- Notes -- References -- 5. Dealing with joblessness: Young people's life trajectory through "non-work" activities in Buenos Aires, Argentina -- Neoliberal transformations -- Concluding remarks: youth unemployment and access to life -- Notes -- References -- 6. Contrasting discourses surrounding gendered representations of young migrants negotiating for work on the South African border -- Introduction -- Contextualizing Zimbabwe and South Africa -- The official discourse: anti-child work.