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The job training charade / Gordon Lafer.
Lippincott Library HD5715.2 .L33 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lafer, Gordon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Occupational training--Government policy--United States--Evaluation.
- Occupational training.
- Occupational training--Government policy.
- Evaluation.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- How many jobs are there? : labor demand and the limits of training policy
- How important is education? : rhetoric and reality in the skills mismatch debate
- Does job training work? : lessons from the Job Training Partnership Act
- Power and "empowerment" : the final frontier of job training
- The politics of job training : the legislative history of JTPA
- Job training after welfare reform : training for discipline
- Conclusion : job training as political diversion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-291) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801439647
- OCLC:
- 48674540
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