Políticas públicas de empleo, trabajo y ciudadanía: los trabajadores jóvenes

Abstract

The social and juridical analysis of the situation of young workers involves methodologically accept the assumption that those form a group, with specific and own needs, which differs from the rest of the population as a matter of age. This approach involves assume that young workers have different from those of other workers‘ characteristics, requiring different treatment both when assessing their context and in the moment to propose policy interventions with the aim of improving their living and working conditions. To avoid such disaggregated explanations, any analysis of the situation of young workers should take into account the specific characteristics of this group, later to reposition this problem in the overall context of the work in order to avoid fragmentation among groups of workers. One of the important factors of the precariousness of young workers in the Spanish labour market is related to the approximation of the employment policies, which tend in fact to analyse this situation as a watertight compartment. This fragmentation among groups of workers seems to authorize a performance by the employment policies where difficulties in access and permanence of employment of these groups justify a series of practices that tend to degradation of their working and life conditions as the only way for integration into employment. This situation of precariousness and fragmentation significantly hampers the work of representation developed by the collective subject of representation of the interests and rights of workers.