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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456118703321

Autore

Anisef Paul

Titolo

Opportunity and uncertainty : life course experiences of the class of '73 / / Paul Anisef [and three others] ; in collaboration with Fred Ashbury, Gottfried Paasche, and Zeng Lin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2000

©2000

ISBN

1-281-99590-8

9786611995904

1-4426-7810-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Disciplina

373.1291209713

Soggetti

High school graduates - Ontario

High school graduates - Employment - Ontario

Educational surveys - Ontario

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Heinz, Walter R. -- Acknowledgments -- Introducing the Class of '73 -- 1. Navigating the Life Course: School-to-Work Transitions in the 1990s -- 2. Setting the Stage: The Past and the Future -- 3. Educational Pathways -- 4. The World of Employment -- 5. Social, Career, and Geographic Mobility -- 6. The Experiences of First-Generation Canadians -- 7. Family Life -- 8. Constructing the Life Course: Five Biographies -- 9. Conclusion -- APPENDIX A. Sample Attrition over the Six Phases of the Class of 73 Study -- APPENDIX B. Class of '73 Project -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Based on the longest running panel study of its kind in Canada, this book examines events in the lives of a generation of Ontario residents who graduated from grade twelve in 1973. The study recreates the world of the early 1970s in which these high school students faced the future. It recounts their educational and occupational experiences in



the late 1970s, follows their vocational and career pathways during the subsequent decade, and searches for patterns in their personal and family lives through the late 1980s and early 1990s. By painting a portrait of a little-known cohort, this interdisciplinary project provides a wealth of information about the links between schooling and employment in a time of economic instability and addresses the different ways in which women and men attempt to reconcile familial and occupational demands. The study employs life course theory, which explores the dynamic relationship between the individual and the social order. Structural forces such as social class, gender, ethnicity, and race played an unmistakable role in the lives of the Class of '73. So, too, did human agency. Using survey research, historical documentation, in-depth interviews, and personal biographies, the authors seek to explain one generation's emergence from adolescence into adulthood in an era characterised by both opportunity and uncertainty.