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Young Women's Provisioning: A Study of the Social Organization of Youth Employment

This study uses institutional ethnography (IE) to address the question of how young women, considered to be “at risk” youth, make decisions about their working lives. Based on interviews with young women and program workers in housing, employment, young mothers’ and girls’ programs, field observations, and document analysis at Gen-Y (pseudonym for a women’s community-based social services agency), young women’s provisioning experiences are used to critique current program and policy models that feature notions of choice and risk. Provisioning is a concept that captures a wide range of work and work-related activities that young women perform for themselves and people they feel responsible for. IE is applied to understand how institutional processes and practices give rise to the conditions under which young women participants at Gen-Y make career and life decisions.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/26046
Date07 February 2011
CreatorsTam, Sandra Ho See
ContributorsNeysmith, Sheila
Source SetsUniversity of Toronto
Languageen_ca
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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