Earning While Learning: Experiences, patterns and the political economy of working students

Éditeurs invités

• Kim Allen, University of Leeds
• Rachel Cohen, City St George's, University of London
• Kirsty Finn, University of Manchester
• Kate Hardy, University of Leeds
• Agnieszka Rydzik, University of Lincoln

Synthèse

Globally, most children and young people engage in paid employment before they leave education, meaning most people's first experience of work occurs while they are studying. For instance, most school and college students have experience of paid work and cross-national studies show that on average 59% of university students are in paid employment. Recent surveys indicate that over half of working students in the UK work over 15 hours a week, with US studies showing a significant minority working over 35 hours per week. This is partly driven by labour market fragmentation and the growing demand for cheap part-time labour, as well as the rising cost of living and neoliberal funding reforms to post-compulsory education. 'Employability' agendas within education also encourage the accumulation of work 'experience' as a way to improve future employment outcomes. Meanwhile, 'work-based learning' is mandatory on vocational programmes, apprenticeships, or professional degrees such as nursing or social work, and conceived as 'constrained labour' in Chinese context. Work therefore plays an integral and growing role in the lives of many students, providing the earliest socialisation into…

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Thèmes proposés

• Novel theorisations and conceptualisations of the intersections between education and work
• Temporal and spatial dimensions of earning while learning
• Inequalities in student work related to social class, gender, 'race', disability, migrant status etc.
• Analyses of the patterns of types of student work: occupations/industries/types of work especially reliant on student workers; including informal, irregular or illegal student work
• Comparative approaches to student work, particularly between Global North and Global South
• Student worker socialisation and ways in which student work is experienced as meaningful
• Student worker voice and agency and collective organising: by, with or against student workers
• Student work and household livelihood strategies
• Policy relating to student work, including tensions between education and employment policy

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