Fourteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to assess the working conditions that are being offered to the youth in Spain. With the intent of linking employment and social cohesion, some of the processes via which youths enter the labor market have been described and interpreted. Specifically, the author focuses on the biographies of youths who manage to make work compatible with their studies. This research was developed in region of Cantabria in two stages, both of which followed a methodology of Anthropology and Social Sciences that combines longitudinal study from 2013-2018, fieldwork techniques, and the generation of ethnographic information. The author concludes that it is rather impossible to establish a connection between social cohesion and quality employment taking into consideration that none of the youths interviewed had ever had quality jobs. As such, what makes some young workers continue to study depends significantly on the possession of a range of sources of social capital and of a diversity –and also quantity- of resources.