◎contents 1. The making and moulding of modern youth : a short history / Rex Stainton Rogers 2. Representations of the young / Christine Griffin 3. Worlds apart : young people's aspirations in a changing Europe / Wendy Stainton 4. 'Pale Sadows' : racism,masculinity and multiculture : Les Back 5. Children's rights: participation and dialogue / Jeremy Roche 6. Citizens or what? / Tom Storrie 7. Racial formations of youh in late twentieth century England / Gorgi Bhattacharyya 8. Young people and political participation / Claire Hackett 9. Youth working : professional identities given,recieved or contested? / Stanley Tucker 10. Welfare services for young people / Bob Coles 11. Education and training provision for young people / Ron Westerby 12. Beyond bricks and mortar / Joe Oldman 13. Is it working? the changing position of young people in the UK labour market / Paul Hickman 14. Shifting sands : care,community and custody in youth justice discourse / John Muncie 15. Youth cultures and sub-cultures / Daren Garratt 16. Black adolescent identity and the inadequacies of western psychology / Lena Robinson 17. Technologies of the self / Maria Pini 18. Sexuality / Tim Edwards 19. Constructing a way of life / Rex Stainton Rogers 20. Friends and lovers / Harriette Marshall 21. Young people and family life : apocalypse now or business as usual? / Brian Dimmock 22. Young disabled people / Sally French 23. The mistreatment of young peole / Brian Corby 24. The dilemmas of intervention / Sarah Banks 25. You're the last person I'd talk to / John Coleman 26. Working with young people in residential settings / Adrian Ward 27. The management of growing up : youth work in community settings / Simon Bradford