Youth politics and juvenile employment: The king’s new suit

Abstract

Similar to the idealistic representations of the youth condition, the predominant analysis on youth unemployment and the way in which it can be solved, considerates the phenomenon of isolation in a descriptive way, without repairing capitalistic contradictions and its influence on the institutional and political-judicial relations that govern the new forms of organizations and international divisions of work. Nevertheless, it is the context of labor unemployment, with its multiple relations and contradictions, and the way as it is affected by the reconstruction of capitalism on a world-wide scale. In order to make it these questions evident and to reveal its dynamics, it is necessary to put the politics of juvenile work within the the frame of the world transtition of Capitalism in Latin America under the fordistic supremacy in the social organization of work, with its respective state of being, corresponding to its post-fordistic capitalism and its state form, momentarily differentiated by conditions of the accumulation of capital and specific mechanisms of the regulation of antagonism of classes.