Learning to work: Trajectories and discourses

Abstract

"Work-based learning" is positively valued by young people as a form of professional specialization and a rapid transition to the labor market. But the economic crisis has changed the trajectories of labour. Trajectories have been segmented. Today, a broad period of uncertainty in employment is accepted as normal, as well as a form of successive approximation to job stability. This study has been based on the statistical data of the MCVL and in five discussion groups with young people from 16 to 34 years.