The Just-in-Time Self: Young Men, Skill and Narratives of Aspiration in the New Economy

雇主和政策制定者经常抱怨“技能差距”：缺乏具备执行现有工作所需技能的工人。这不是单靠资助更多职业训练课程便可以解决的。为了提高对培训的参与，重要的是要了解职业抱负是如何形成的。这项研究将展示如何通过参与集体创造性项目，来自贫困背景的年轻人，发展技能和倾向，使他们超越传统的体力劳动模式，发展工人在“新经济”中所需的灵活性。

Employers and policy-makers frequently lament the 'skills gap': the shortage of workers with the skills required to perform the available jobs. This cannot be solved simply by funding more vocational training courses. To improve participation in training it is important to understand how vocational aspirations are formed. This research will demonstrate how, through their involvement in collective creative projects, young men from poor backgrounds, develop skills and inclinations that might move them beyond the traditional model of manual labour to develop the flexibility required of workers in the 'new economy'.