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A manifesto for the future of Britain from a brilliant young voice in politics. Young people growing up in Britain today face a narrowing job market, high housing costs and the prospect of a lifetime of hard work with less reward. The ideas of social responsibility that arose after the Second World War are straining under the demands of a globalised world. Too often public debate divides Britain's youth into the 'feral rats' of the London riots and the 'posh boys' of Eton. Business leaders rail at the entitled and unemployable young people they are asked to give jobs to, politicians complain about apathetic teens and commentators devote endless column inches to the issue of a 'self-obsessed' generation. Georgia Gould's Wasted shows us that far from being the apathetic, materialistic, drunken problem they are often portrayed as, young people in Britain have the aspirations, the creativity and the will to answer the many challenges we face. Georgia travelled across the UK to uncover the values, aspirations and challenges of young Brits, from job seekers in Bradford and working-class families in Glasgow's Easterhouse estate, to student protesters at Sussex University and young entrepr

Who reads Wasted : how misunderstanding young Britain threatens our future?

Author

Georgia Gould

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781408704523

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Gender Studies, Fiction

Rating

3.23 / 5 (12 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14