Youth in Europe / edited by Alessandro Cavalli and Olivier Galland.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-160).

Introduction: What is youth? / Olivier Galland -- 1. Youth in France: a new age in life / Olivier Galland -- 2. Prolonging youth in Italy: 'being in no hurry' / Alessandro Cavalli -- 3. Growing up in two worlds: being young in Germany today / Gunter Cremer and Peter Wahler -- 4. Always the trainee, never the employee? Increasingly protracted transitions in the U.K. / Frank Coffield -- 5. Access to working life in Germany and Britain / Walter R. Heinz -- 6. Future orientations of Dutch youth: the emergence of a choice biography / Manuela du Bois-Reymond -- 7. From youth to adulthood in the Spain of the 1990s: the changing female role / Joaquim Casal and Maribel Garcia -- 8. Entry thresholds to politics: between inheritance and experiment / Anne Muxel -- 9. Czech youth and social change / Vladimir Dubsky -- Conclusion: Europe, Europeanization and young people: a triad of confusing images / Lynne Chisholm.

The "Social Change in Western Europe" series developed from the need to provide a summary of current thinking from leading academic thinkers in major social and economic issues concerning the evolving policies of Western Europe in post-Maastricht era. To create an effective European Union governments and politicians throughout the region must work to provide satisfactory social, economic and political conditions for the populations of Europe, and each volume affords an opportunity to look at specific issues and their impact on individual countries.