Originally published in 1987, at a time of high unemployment, this book provides a critical analysis of the role played by education in solving unemployment. It examines the practical, social and psychological effects of unemployment on adults and argues that formal institutional responses are inadequate within any long term perspective, and that it is rather community, informal and often unofficial initiatives that will provide learning experiences for unemployed people.

Report of Congressional Hearings on youth unemployment in the USA, with particular reference to minority groups - discusses educational policy and youth policy programmes and experience, the public education system, the role of vocational education in reducing youth unemployment, the need to match training programmes with employment opportunities (training employment relationship), etc. References.