Precarity and Vocational Education and Training

Maria-Carmen Pantea is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania. Her research interests focus on youth studies; particularly the relationship between young people and work in its various forms, including entrepreneurship and vocational education and training.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- PART I. MANUAL WORK, VOCATION AND THE CREATION OF WORKING SUBJECTS.- Chapter 2. The Changing Nature and Meanings of Manual Work.- Chapter 3. The VET Project.- Chapter 4. Research Puzzle and Methodology.- PART II. IMAGINED FUTURES. ON HIGH ASPIRATIONS AND LOW EXPECTATIONS.- Chapter 5. The Grand Narrative, Or the Power of Conventional Aspirations.- Chapter 6. Neoliberal Aspirations: Agency, Choice and Experimentation.- Chapter 7. Low Expectations.- Chapter 8. Conclusions.