‘The run-up to the election saw a string of books on intergenerational unfairness…’

Posted on 2010/12/13 , tagged as

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‘… the best was Jilted Generation by Ed Howker and Shiv Malik,’ said Nick Cohen in the Observer yesterday.

‘They did not confine themselves to education but looked at how children were having their rites of passage to adulthood postponed, and how vast numbers were living with their parents into their 20s. They could not afford exorbitant housing costs, or build a career because they worked in exploitative internships or insecure temporary jobs, if they worked at all.’

Read more here. You can download Jilted Generation entirely for free on your mobile phone until the end of the year – just text JILTED to 60300.