Young people, precarity and global grammars of enterprisesome preliminary provocations

  1. Diego Carbajo Padilla
  2. Peter Kelly
Journal:
Recerca: revista de pensament i analisi

ISSN: 1130-6149

Year of publication: 2019

Issue Title: Nuevas precariedades en la era del trabajo digital

Issue: 24

Pages: 61-91

Type: Article

DOI: 10.6035/RECERCA.2019.24.1.4 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

In the context of globalising labour markets, and at the same time that precarization processes are altering young people’s working and living conditions, a whole network of public and private agencies are developing different entrepreneurship programs as the main mechanism to deal with young people’s exclusion and unemployment. Grounded in two on-going research projects in Europe and Australia, this article proposes a preliminary, and provocative, engagement with the concept of global grammars of enterprise to examine how these truths of entrepreneurship are framed and articulated in these networks. We argue that this concept enables us to identify, examine and analyse the shifting, unstable, always strategic power relations between governmental discourses of ‘enterprise’; and the performances and actions of enterprise, the enterprising behaviour and dispositions of persons and groups, the ‘vernacular’, local, particular, ‘translations’ of the ideas of entrepreneurship that organisations and young people perform amidst the violence of globalising precarization.

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Funding information

As said, the project Grammars of Self-entrepreneurship in the Basque Country from an International Perspective has been funded by the «Doctoral Research Staff Improvement Programme 2017-2020» run by the Basque Government’s Department of Education (POS-2016-1-0081). Collaborations include the «Stable Research Group (Type A) of the Basque University System», called Social change, precarity and identity in contemporary society (IT706-13) and the Network of Youth and Society Studies funded by the «State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2013-2016» [CSO2015-71988-REDT]. The Basque Economic and Social Council (CES/EGAB) is a consultative body of the Basque Government and the Basque Parliament. It comprises representatives of unions, business associations, chambers of commerce, consumer associations and experts. It was created to enable participation of the different economic and social stakeholders in the economic and social policy of the Basque Country.

Funders

    • POS-2016-1-0081
    • POS-2016-1-0081
    • IT706-13
    • CSO2015-71988-REDT

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