In this paper, I argue that current arrangements for school-to-work transitions support in England, now school-based, are designed to contribute towards ensuring the consent of the population for what I refer to as the ‘state of insecurity’ (Lorey, 2015): the neoliberal relationship between the individual and the state in which insecurity is promoted as freedom. Based on an analysis of policy, the paper argues that the government careers strategy for young people aims to contribute to shaping the precarious subjects which inhabit the state of insecurity, by encouraging them to internalise neoliberal values around freedom and individualism which accompany governmental precarisation. Drawing also on the work of Judith Butler (2011), I suggest that throughout the careers strategy, neoliberalism functions as performative or hegemonic norm which is cited to constitute notions of ‘good’ or ‘normal’ labour market arrangements, aspirations and selves. I suggest that this strategy is an example of Berlant's (2011) ‘cruel optimism’, which constitutes a fantasy of a ‘good life’ which is in fact likely to be unattainable to many young people, especially the more disadvantaged.

在本文中，我认为，目前英格兰以学校为基础的英格兰目前从学校到工作的过渡安排，旨在确保民众同意我所说的“不安全状态”（Lorey）。 ，2015年）：个人与国家之间的新自由主义关系，其中不安全感被促进为自由。本文基于对政策的分析认为，针对年轻人的政府职业战略旨在通过鼓励年轻人将围绕自由和个人主义的新自由主义价值观内化到政府的不稳定状态中来，帮助他们塑造处于不稳定状态的subjects可危的主体。我还借鉴了朱迪思·巴特勒（Judith Butler，2011）的工作，建议在整个职业生涯战略中，新自由主义起表演或霸权的作用，据称构成“良好”或“正常”劳动力市场安排，理想和自我的观念。我建议这种策略是Berlant（2011年）“残酷乐观”的一个例子，它构成了“美好生活”的幻想，实际上，许多年轻人，尤其是处境不利的年轻人可能无法实现这一目标。