Youth Studies Australia vol.11 no.3, September 1992

Student workers: New data on gender and education differences, by Lyn Robinson and Michael Long
Youth Studies Australia, v.11 n.3, pp.14-24.
This paper presents some results concerning the incidence and pattern of part-time employment among 14-year-old secondary school students in Australia in 1989. Results are presented separately for males and females, and four aspects of student participation in paid work are examined: the extent of part-time work among junior secondary school students; the type of work undertaken and the payments received; the relationship between educational achievement and student work; and the relationship between educational expectations and student work.

Hopping in hamburger heaven: Youth underemployment in the service sector, by Lyle Munro
Youth Studies Australia, v.11 n.3, pp.25-33.
With youth unemployment running at more than thirty per cent - any job is understandably seen by many as preferable to the dole. But what are the social and psychological costs of underemployment, of dead-end jobs like those that end when one is "too old" at 18, or the largely female jobs where "being nice" is the only marketable skill required? In this review of underemployment, Lyle Munro asks policymakers to consider the implications for young people at a time when even a fast food job is an unattainable dream, a time when jobs are simply "not big enough for the human spirit".

Full-time shifts, by Bruce Wilson
Youth Studies Australia, v.11 n.3, pp.34-39.
During the past five years, a great deal of public debate has focused on the need for, and appropriate strategies to achieve, a fundamental restructuring of Australian industry. At the same time, considerable attention has been given to the changes which have occurred in the youth labour market, and to the pressures for increased participation in education and training. Relatively little research, however, has been undertaken on the implications of industry restructuring for the actual work engaged in by young people in full-time employment. This article reviews the research literature which is available, and presents preliminary findings from an ongoing research project which is concerned with the consequences of technological change, workplace reorganisation and award restructuring on the recruitment, training, and actual job satisfaction of young workers.

Research in progress: Young workers and industry restructuring, by Bruce Wilson
Youth Studies Australia, v.11 n.3, pp.40-42.
Bruce Wilson outlines a major program of the Youth Research Centre.

Youth and tourism industry employment: A survey of Far North Queensland secondary students, by Glenn F. Ross
Youth Studies Australia, v.11 n.3, pp.43-45.
The survey was distributed among the major state high schools in the Cairns area, and administered to students during class hours by a careers counsellor in each school. The non-response rate was less than 9%. The students were asked to respond to the following questions using a rating of one to five: Could you estimate how hard you are likely to strive to attain a tourism and hospitality industry job?, and How successful do you think you will be in getting such a tourism and hospitality industry job in the future?

Beyond the two cultures: Creating a new paradigm for school-industry links, by James Cumming
Youth Studies Australia, v.11 n.3, pp.46-50.
This is an edited version of a paper he presented at the Connections Workshop, in May 1992 in Adelaide. The paper is based on the outcomes of two research studies conducted for the National Industry Education Forum (NIEF). The primary objective of his paper was to stimulate productive debate, by generating a critique of current theory and practice. It should be noted, however, that the views expressed in this paper are his own, and should not necessarily be seen to reflect those of other researchers or personnel involved in the Connections project, the NIEF or any other agency for whom he has completed commissioned work.

Youth theory : Marx or Foucault, by Howard Sercombe
Youth Studies Australia, v.11 n.3, pp.51-54.
Howard Sercombe responds to 'Reassessing Streetkids, a critique of subculture theory' by Gordon Tait published in the previous edition of Youth Studies Australia (vol.11 n.2).