Youth, work and identity. Life perspectives and interests of young people: a research project

Focusing on young people and adolescence in the 1980s, the differentiated qualitative investigation of Martin Baethge and colleagues contributed significantly towards generating a theory of the subjective meaning of work and gainful employment in life. The results of their detailed and comprehensive interview analyses are presented as a typology, which relate identity building and life perspectives by specifying employment trajectories as well...