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Films and Videos
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Youth & Labor
U.S. Department of Labor site with information and links on youth employment.
Youth Rules!
This U.S. Department of Labor web page is a gateway providing quick access to information about Federal and State labor laws that apply to young workers. The web page includes information designed to educate teens, parents, educators and employers about the hours youth can work, the jobs youth can do, and how to prevent workplace injuries.
Youth Minimum Wage - Fair Labor Standards Act
Fact sheet from the U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division.
Youth@Work
The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) website for youth in the workforce. This website is designed to teach young workers about their rights and responsibilities as employees.
Retail Workers.com
Where the disgruntled get their gruntles back. A terrific website, including dozens
of articles, discussion forums, mailing lists, and an opportunity for readers to send
in stories about work in the retail sector. A must see.
Youth, Unions and You
This fantastic secondary teacher's guide, put together by the British Columbia Teachers' Federation
and the B.C. Federation of Labour, contains dozens of thorough lesson plans for a 8th-
11th grade classes. A terrific resource for teachers.
San Francisco Bike Messengers Association
The internet home of the innovative union/association of workers in the S.F. courier
industry – the first of its kind in the country. Includes links to articles, union
contracts, and other helpful tidbits.
LOHP Young Workers Health and Safety Project
UC Berkeley's Labor and Occupational Health Program has launched an innovative public
education initiative around workplace health and safety issues for young people.
The California Resource Network for Young Workers' Health and Safety
Valuable information for working teens, parents, educators, employers, and others about
safety hazards in many typical teen jobs, from fast food to agriculture, and explains
California wage, hour, and child labor regulations. The site also features a gallery
of entries in the poster contest and more information on the essay contest.
2030 Center
The 2030 Center is a public policy organization for young adults, founded in 1997 to provide a voice for young people's economic concerns in order to reverse the deterioration of their economic circumstances.
American Youth Policy Forum
One of three programs areas is Preparation for Careers & Workforce Development.
Canadian Labour Youth Committees
Canadian unions are at the world's forefront of youth-labor
activism. A number of unions have recently launched their own
youth committees designed to reach out to young workers with
info about their rights on the job and what unions do. The following
are sampling of websites from this movement.
Reaching Out to the Future: Unions Develop Key Leadership Skills
Among Young Workers. 
By Laureen Lazarovici, 2002, America@Work.
Unions Must Tap Young Workers
By Raj Jayadev, 2002, Z Magazine.
The Future of Low-Wage Jobs: Case Studies in the Retail Industry
By Annette Bernhardt, 1999, Institute on Education and the Economy (IEE) Working Paper, No. 10, Teachers College, Columbia University.
San Francisco Bike Messengers' Union Rolls Out Direct Action, Strikes
By Nato Green, 2001, Labor Notes.
Labor force, employment, and unemployment statistics for youth ages 16 to 24
Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Short articles and press releases.
Labor force, employment, and unemployment statistics for youth ages 16 to 24 by school enrollment status
Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Short report, press release and data table.
Report on the Youth Labor Force
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2000.
Youth at Work: The Unionized Fast-food and Grocery Workplace
By Stuart Tannock, 2001, Temple University Press. Read the Introduction.
'I Know What It's Like to Struggle': The Working Lives of Young Students in an Urban Community College
By Stuart Tannock and Sara Flocks, 2002, Center for Labor Research and Education
(CLRE) Working Paper.
Why Do Working Youth Work Where They Do?
By Stuart Tannock, March 2002
Framing Youth: 10 Myths About the Next Generation
By Mike Males, 1999, Common Courage Press.
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
(Chapter 10: Threats and Temps)
By Naomi Klein, 1999, Picador Press.
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
(Chapter 3: Behind the Counter)
By Eric Schlosser, 2001, Houghton Mifflin Press.
Young, Organizing, and I Know My Rights Punk!
A short video and discussion guide about young people and work
by the Canadian Labour Congress, filmed at their first nationwide
youth conference.
Live Nude Girls Unite
A moving and inspiring full-length documentary about how a group of women organized
the first union for strippers in the country.
Secrets of Silicon Valley
A behind-the-scenes exposé on the downsides of the Internet revolution, focusing
on temporary work and job training programs in Silicon Valley.
The Merchants of Cool
An excellent PBS investigative report about how corporations co-opt youth culture.
Fast Food Women
A short documentary focusing on the lives of the women who work at four different chain
restaurants in eastern Kentucky. Explores how fast food jobs dehumanize and devalue
workers.
Barling, Julian and Kevin Kelloway (eds.) (1999). Young Workers:
Varieties of Experience. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological
Association.
Ben-Amos, Ilana (1995). Adolescence as a Cultural Invention: Phillippe Ariès
and the Sociology of Youth. History of the Human Sciences, 8(2), 69-89.
Boyden, Jo, Birgitta Ling and William Myers (1998). What
Works for Working Children. Sweden: UNICEF/Rädda Barnen.
Cheever, Ben (2001). Selling Ben Cheever: Back to Square One in a Service Economy.
New York: Bloomsbury.
Read a review
Read an excerpt
Cobble, Dorothy Sue (1991). Dishing it Out: Waitresses and
Their Unions in the Twentieth Century. Urbana: University
of Illinois Press.
Cohen, Phil (1999). Rethinking the Youth Question: Education, Labour, and Cultural
Studies. Durham: Duke University Press.
Cooper, Marc (1999). Boyz in the Union: Some Onetime Gangbangers Pump Up Local Labor. LA Weekly, October 8-14.
Côté, James and Anton Allahar (1994). Generation on Hold: Coming of
Age in the Late Twentieth Century. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing.
DeLaurier, Gregory (2001). Dying to Serve You: Violence in the Retail Workplace. Dollars & Sense, September/October, 27-29.
Demos, John (1986). Past, Present, and Personal: The Family and the Life Course in
American History. New York: Oxford University Press.
Ehrenreich, Barbara (2001). Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.
New York: Metropolitan Books.
Elson, Diane (1982). The Differentiation of Children's Labour in the Capitalist Labour
Market. Development and Change, 13, 479-497.
Esping-Anderson, Gosta (ed.) (1993). Changing Classes: Stratification and Mobility in
Post-Industrial Societies. London: Sage.
Fasick, Frank (1994). On the ‘Invention' of Adolescence. Journal of Early
Adolescence, 14(1), 6-23. Abstract.
Featherstone, Liza (1999). The Burger International Revisited. Left Business Observer, 91.
Featherstone, Liza (1998). The Burger International. Left Business Observer, 86.
Fossey, Richard and Mark Bateman (eds.) (1998). Condemning Students to Debt: College
Loans and Public Policy. New York: Teachers College Press. Abstract.
Giroux, Henry (1997). Channel Surfing: Race Talk and the Destruction of Today's Youth.
Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press.
Glazer, Nona (1993). Women's Paid and Unpaid Labor: The Work Transfer in Health Care
and Retailing. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano (1992). From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor. Signs, 18 (Autumn), 1-43.
Greenberger, Ellen and Laurence Steinberg (1986). When Teenagers Work: The Psychological
and Social Costs of Adolescent Employment. New York: Basic Books.
Griffin, Christine (1993). Representations of Youth: The Study of Youth and Adolescence
in Britain and America. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Grubb, Norton (1996). Working in the Middle: Strengthening Education and Training for the Mid-Skilled Labor Force. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Grubb, Norton, Helena Worthen, Barbara Byrd and Elnora Webb (1999). Honored but Invisible:
An Inside Look at Teaching in Community Colleges. New York: Routledge.
Halperin, Samuel (ed.). (1998 January). The Forgotten Half Revisited. American Youth and Young Families, 1988-2008. American Youth Policy Forum: Washington, DC.
Harding, Edie and Laura Harmon (1999). Higher-Education Students' Off-Campus Work
Patterns. Olympia: Washington State Institute for Public Policy.
Harrison, Bennett and Barry Bluestone (1988). The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring
and the Polarizing of America. New York: Basic Books.
Herzenberg, Stephen, John Alic and Howard Wial (1998). New Rules for a New Economy:
Employment and Opportunity in Post-Industrial America. Ithaca: ILR Press.
Hine, Thomas (1999). The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager. New York: Avon
Books.
Horn, Laura (1998). Undergraduates Who Work: National Post-Secondary Student Aid Study 1996. Washington, D.C.: National Center for Educational Statistics.
Hughes, Katherine (1999). Supermarket Employment: Good Jobs at Good Wages? Institute on Education and the Economy (IEE)
Working Paper No. 11. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University.
Johnson, Dirk (2001). For Teenagers, Fast Food is a Snack, Not a Job. New York Times, January 8, A1.
Johnson, Richard (1979). 'Really Useful Knowledge:' Radical Education and Working-Class
Culture, 1790-1848. In
John Clarke, Chas Critcher and Richard Johnson (eds.) Working-Class Culture: Studies in History and Theory. London: Hutchinson, 75-102.
Kett, Joseph (1977). Rites of Passage: Adolescence in America
1790 to the Present. New York: Basic Books.
Leidner, Robin (1993). Fast Food, Fast Talk: Service Work and the Routinization of
Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Levine, Linda (2005, April 20). Youth: From Classroom to Workplace. Congressional Research Service Report for Congress.
Lipsig-Mummé, Carla (1999). Students By Day, Workers By Night: Organizing on
Campus. Our Times, 18(1), 39-42.
Livingstone, David (1999). The Education-Jobs Gap: Underemployment
or Economic Democracy. Toronto: Garamond Press.
Lorinc, John (1994 June). Fast Food, Slow Bargaining. This Magazine, 25-30.
Luxenberg, Stan (1985). Roadside Empires: How the Chains Franchised
America. New York: Viking.
Macdonald, Cameron and Carmen Sirianni (1996). The Service Society and the Changing
Experience of Work. In Cameron Macdonald and
Carmen Sirianni (eds.) Working in the Service Society. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1-26.
Males, Mike (19990. Framing Youth: 10 Myths About the Next
Generation. Monroe: Common Courage Press.
Marquardt, Richard (1998). Enter at Your Own Risk: Canadian
Youth and the Labour Market. Toronto: Between the Lines.
Mayo, James (1993). The American Grocery Store: The Business Evolution of an Architectural
Space. Westport: Greenwood Press.
McGarrigle, Gavin (1999). Hope in Hospitality: Winning a First
Contract at the Cheesecake Café. Our Times,
18(4), 31-35.
Moberg, David (1996). The Young and the Restless. In These
Times, November 25.
Nardinelli, Clark (1990). Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Nasaw, David (1985). Children of the City: At Work & At Play. New York: Oxford
University Press.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) (2002). Participation Trends and Patterns in Adult Education, 1991 to 1999. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) (1998a). Indicator of the Month: Employment and Postsecondary Persistence and Attainment. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) (1998b). Post-Secondary Financing Strategies: How Undergraduates Combine Work, Borrowing and Attendance. Washington,
DC: U.S. Department of Education.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) (1994). Undergraduates Who Work While Enrolled in Post-Secondary Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.
National Research Council (1998). Protecting Youth at Work. Washington, DC: National
Academy Press.
Newman, Katherine (1999). No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City.
New York: Alfred Knopf.
Nieuwenhuys, Olga (1996). The Paradox of Child Labor and Anthropology. Annual Review
of Anthropology, 25, 237-251.
Noyelle, Thierry (1987). Beyond Industrial Dualism: Market and Job Segmentation in
the New Economy. Boulder: Westview Press.
O'Halloran, Chris and Debora De Angelis (2001). Young People & Unions: Making the Connection. Our Times,
20(5), 19-23.
Osterman, Paul (1980). Getting Started: The Youth Labor Market.
Cambridge: MIT Press.
Pascarella, Ernest, et al. (1998). Does Work Inhibit Cognitive Development During College? Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 20(2), 75-93.
Peters, Cynthia (2001, August 4). Treating Teens Contemptuously: The Retail Squeeze. Znet
Daily Commentaries.
Rehnby, Nadine and Stephen McBride (1997). Help Wanted: Economic
Security for Youth. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Reich, Robert. 1991. The Work of Nations. New York: Vintage.
Rein, Marcy & Peter Olney (2001 Fall). Bike Messengers Organize. Social Policy.
Reiter, Esther (1991). Making Fast Food: From the Frying Pan
into the Fryer. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
Reuters/CBS. 2000. Summer Job Prospects Sizzle. CBS Evening News 31 July.
Ritzer, George (1996). The McDonaldization of Society: An Investigation into the Changing
Character of Contemporary Social Life. Rev. ed. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press.
Rooks, Daisy (2004). Sticking it Out or Packing it In?: Organizer Retention in the
New Labor Movement. In Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss (eds.) Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and
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Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 195-224.
Schneider, Barbara, and David Stevenson (1999). The Ambitious Generation: America's
Teenagers, Motivated but Directionless. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Shaw, Kathleen, James Valadez, and Robert Rhoads (eds.) (1999). Community Colleges as
Cultural Texts: Qualitative Explorations of Organizational and Student Culture.
Albany: State University of New York Press.
Sum, Andrew and Robert Taggart (2001). The National Economic Downturn and Deteriorating
Youth Employment Prospects: The Case for a Young Adult Jobs Stimulus Program. Center
for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University.
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Tilly, Chris (1996). Half a Job: Bad and Good Jobs in a Changing Labor Market.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
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Wallace, Claire, and Sijka Kovatcheva (1998). Youth in Society: The Construction and
Deconstruction of Youth in East and West Europe. New York: St Martin's Press.
Walsh, John (1993). Supermarkets Transformed: Understanding Organizational and Technological
Innovations. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
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Students in a De-Industrializing Economy. New York: Routledge.
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