Bocharov, V. and Gavrilyuk, T. (2021) “The New Working-Class Youth as the Object of State Social Policy and Investment”, The Journal of Social Policy Studies, 19(1), pp. 69-84. doi: 10.17323 ...

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Abstract

This article focuses on new working-class youth investment as a social group that makes up the main social reserve for domestic economic development. Working-class youth itself has been regarded as a heterogeneous group, in which three social types can be distinguished that have specific requests regarding the priority areas of social investment. Our empirical study was conducted in 2018 using quantitative methods. We examine new working-class youth at the intersection of class, gender and age. The conceptual basis of the study was the theory of working and free time balance. A factor analysis was carried out to distinguish two groups of factors affecting the perception of work and personal-life balance among young people of the new working class: job satisfaction and free time. Based on the obtained factors, a cluster analysis was carried out and three labour behaviour models were identified for working-class youth: 'earning', 'surviving' and 'adapted' types. This typology allowed us to identify the target areas of social investment in human capital for each of the social types of the new working-class youth. At the level of municipal programs, the directions of youth social policy can be specified taking into account the territorial, sectoral, gender and age specifics of working-class youth living in the territory of this municipality. First of all, support and social investment programs are needed for young women of the new working class, whose position on the labour market is the most vulnerable, and whose material well-being, as a rule, is lower than that of men.