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Award/Grant Name: From Young Workers to Older Workers: Reflections on Work in the Life Process
Award/Grant Holder: Dr John Goodwin
Co-applicant(s): Professor David Ashton, Dr Henrietta O'Connor
Start Date: 07/11/2001 End Date: 21/12/2004
Award/Grant Description

This project will explore a range of issues around young and older workers and is designed to be a follow up to a research project carried out at the University of Leicester between 1962 and 1964. The original research aimed to explore how young people adjusted to working life when they left school. The new study aims to re-analyse the original interview schedules and trace one quarter of the original sample so that their experiences and attitudes on working life can be collected. The data will then include information from the same respondents at both the start and approaching the end of their careers. The methodology encompasses several approaches. It will include a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the original interview schedules. We shall also conduct 200 qualitative interviews with members of the original sample. In addition we aim to supplement the data with a secondary analysis of some existing national data sets. The investigations will allow us to shed light on a series of aspects relating to labour market entry. We will also be able to document in detail individual experiences of work though the life course

Award/Grant Amount ESRC Grant Number Institution Discipline Award/Grant Type
£29,671.35 R000223653 Sociology Research Grant Small
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Click on Download to download the document. Number of Documents: 13
  Title Type URL Author Published
End of Award Report Full Research Report Goodwin, JD 22/11/2005 12:26
Non-Technical Summary Research Summary Goodwin, JD 22/11/2005 12:08
Boys Gendered Transitions to Work in the 1960s Discussion Papers Goodwin, John D 17/05/2005 17:33
She Wants to be Like her Mum? : Girls' experiences of the school-work transition in the 1960s Journal Article Goodwin, John D 17/05/2005 17:24
Chapter 4: Girl's perceptions of adulthood in the 1960s Book Chapter Goodwin, John D 17/05/2005 17:00
Exploring Complex Transitions : Looking back at the 'golden age' of youth transitions Journal Article Goodwin, John 17/05/2005 16:50
Forty years on : Norbert Elias and the young worker project Working Publication Goodwin, J 17/06/2003 9:52
'She wants to be like her mum' : girls' perceptions of adulthood in the 1960s Working Publication O'Connor, H 16/06/2003 16:46
'They had horrible wallpaper' : representations of respondents in interviewer notes Working Publication Goodwin, J 16/06/2003 16:38
Exploring complex transitions : looking back at the 'golden age' of youth transitions Working Publication Goodwin, J 16/06/2003 16:29

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