All I want is a job! : unemployed women navigating the public workforce system / Mary Gatta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gatta, Mary Lizabeth, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unemployed women workers--Services for--United States.

Unemployed women workers.

Women--Employment--United States.

Women.

Women--Employment.

Occupational training for women.

United States.

Occupational training for women--United States.

Manpower policy--United States.

Manpower policy.

Physical Description:

xiv, 150 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford Economics and Finance, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

All I Want Is a Job! puts a human face on workforce development policy. An ethnographic sociologist by training, Mary Gatta went undercover as a client in a New Jersey One Stop Career Center. One Stop Centers, developed as part of the federal Workforce Investment Act, are supposed to be an unemployed worker's go-to resource on the way to re-employment. But, with swarms of new clients coming through their doors, are these centers fit for the task of pairing America's workforce with new jobs? Weaving together her own account with interviews of jobless women and caseworkers, Gatta offers a revealing glimpse of the toll that unemployment takes and the realities of social policy. Women, she argues, are particularly vulnerable in the current economy, since they are routinely paid less than their male counterparts. Drawing on tales from the frontlines, Gatta highlights the promise and weaknesses of One Stop Career Centers and recommends key shifts in workforce policy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Navigating the workforce system

On the front line during a recession

Understanding the backstory of workforce and welfare policy

Charting a course forward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804781336

0804781338

9780804790826

0804790825

OCLC:

864752959