Reproducing low‐wage labour: capital accumulation, labour markets and young workers
基于大曼彻斯特地区的证据，研究资本积累的结构性变化如何导致青年成为低薪服务经济的廉价劳动力来源，并呼吁从政治经济学角度理解其结构性原因。
Abstract Drawing on evidence from Greater Manchester, this article examines how structural changes in capital accumulation have created particular labour market outcomes, which have led to young people becoming a source of cheap labour for the growing low‐wage service economy. Greater Manchester has been selected as a case study because of the sectoral composition of its labour market and because levels of low pay for young workers are above the national low‐pay average of 40 per cent. The research reveals that it is necessary to move beyond sociological explanations that concentrate on the ‘essential youthfulness’ of young people and instead draw on analytical categories from political economy in order to understand the structural causes of young people's material circumstances.