Young Workers: Varieties of Experience.(Review) (book review)

Young Workers: Varieties of Experience. Edited by Julian Barling and E. Kevin Kelloway. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1999. x, 282 pp. ISBN 155798-563-4, $39.95 ($34.95 for APA members), cloth.

Youths' involvement in the work force is of major interest to public policy-makers in all advanced industrial societies. Labor force entry may be the single most decisive event marking the transition from adolescence (typically a prolonged one, in these economies) to the independence of adulthood. The developmental significance of young people's early work ...

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