This ground-breaking book offers one of the first real qualitative sociological investigations of a relatively new form of employment, to see what life is like on the 'post-industrial assembly line', whilst also taking a close look at the nature of class, identity and subjectivity in relation to young people coming of age in a world dramatically altered over the last three decades.

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Chapter 1; Chapter 2 Chapter 2; Chapter 3 Chapter 3; Chapter 4 Chapter 4; Chapter 5 Chapter 5; Chapter 6 Chapter 6; Chapter 7 Chapter 7; Conclusion;

Anthony Lloyd is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Teeside University, UK.