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- Workforce Intermediaries: For The 21St Century
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Temple University Press
summary
Confronted with businesses facing a long-term shortage of skilled workers and evaluations showing that job training for the poor over the past 25 years had produced only meager results, a number of groups throughout the country have sought to find a more effective approach. The efforts of these partnerships, which editor Robert Giloth calls "workforce intermediaries," are characterized by a focus on improving business productivity and helping low-income individuals not just find a job, but advance over time to jobs that enable them to support themselves and their families. This book takes stock of the world of workforce intermediaries: entrepreneurial partnerships that include businesses, unions, community colleges, and community organizations. Noted scholars and policy makers examine the development and effectiveness of these intermediaries, and a concluding chapter discusses where we need to go from here, if society is to provide a more coherent approach to increasing the viability and capacity of these important institutions.Published in association with The American Assembly, Columbia University.
Table of Contents
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- I. Introduction
- II. Who Are Workforce Intermediaries and What Do They Do?
- III. Economic and Policy Rationales for Workforce Intermediaries
- IV. Customer Voices
- 10. How Do Workers See Advancement?
- pp. 241-262
- V. Building Workforce Intermediaries
- 12. Financing Workforce Intermediaries
- pp. 293-313
- VI. Conclusion
- About the Contributors
- pp. 411-417
- Acknowledgments
- p. 418
Additional Information
ISBN
9781439903865
Related ISBN(s)
9781592132041
MARC Record
OCLC
646066527
Pages
432
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2003