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Workforce development politics : civic capacity and performance / edited by Robert P. Giloth.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hard-core unemployed--Government policy--United States.
- Hard-core unemployed.
- Urban poor--Employment--Government policy--United States.
- Urban poor.
- Job creation--Government policy--United States.
- Job creation.
- Occupational training--Government policy--United States.
- Occupational training.
- Full employment policies--United States.
- Full employment policies.
- Community development, Urban--United States.
- Community development, Urban.
- Economic development projects--United States.
- Economic development projects.
- Local government--United States.
- Local government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- If 88% of Americans believe that education and training resources should be available to the jobless and more than two-thirds of employers have identified workforce and skills shortages as top priorities, why aren't we, as a society, able to provide that training in such a way that it leads to long-term economic security? This book looks at the politics of local and regional workforce development: the ways politicians and others concerned with the workforce systems have helped or hindered that process. Contributors examine the current systems that are in place in these cities and the potential
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. The ""Local"" in Workforce Development Politics: An Introduction; 2. The Politics of Workforce Development: Constructing a Performance Regime in Denver; 3. Ecologies of Workforce Development in Milwaukee; 4. Workforce Systems Change in a Politically Fragmented Environment; 5. Workforce Systems Change in Seattle; 6. Workforce Development Policy in the St. Louis Metropolitan Region: A Critical Overview and Assessment; 7. Comparative Local Workforce Politics in Six Cities: Theory and Action; 8. Poverty and the Workforce Challenge; About the Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612701122
- 9781282701120
- 1282701126
- 9781439904589
- 1439904588
- OCLC:
- 646821340
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