• Part 1. Overview Can there be an Effective Youth Unemployment Policy? David Raffe The Youth Opportunities Programme: Requiem and Rebirth Martin Loney Part 2: Experience Factor Training or Community Scheming? Tom Logan Community Projects – Signposts to More Radical Practice Mary Hopkins Inside the Work Introduction Course Rob Fiddy WEEP – Exploitation or Advantage? Howard Williamson Part 3: Cause and Effect The Impact of Mass Unemployment on Careers Guidance in the Durham Coalfield Derek Kirton Social Behaviour and the Young Unemployed Sue Bloxham Race, Riots and Unemployment John F. Schostak Part 4: Comparatives Entrepreneurship Education and Job Creation in the United States Robert Nelson & James A. Leach Boys Off the Street and Girls in the Home: Youth Unemployment and State Intervention in Northern Ireland Teresa Rees

Original Reviews of In Place of Work: ‘These essays, with their valuable bibliographies would make an admirable starting point, not only for considering the policies of the past decade but also for assessing the likely impact and consequences of the YTS [Youth Training Scheme].’ Richard K. Brown British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol 5 No. 1 (1984)‘…The book offers a good deal of original material…’ Virginia Scott, Educational Research Volume 26, No. 1 (1984)