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Training the excluded for work : access and equity for women, immigrants, first nations, youth, and people with low income / edited by Marjorie Griffin Cohen.
- Title
- Training the excluded for work : access and equity for women, immigrants, first nations, youth, and people with low income / edited by Marjorie Griffin Cohen.
- Publication
- Vancouver : UBC Press, c2003.
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- Additional Authors
- Cohen, Marjorie Griffin, 1944-
- Description
- xii, 276 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Training the Excluded for Work is a comprehensive discussion of job education in Canada that will be of interest to community groups, trade unionists, policy makers, academics, and students interested in policy, work, equity, gender, and training."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Affirmative action programs > Canada
- Formation professionnelle > Politique gouvernementale > Canada
- Formation professionnelle des femmes > Canada
- Formation professionnelle des minorités > Canada
- Handicapés sociaux > Travail > Canada
- Occupational training > Government policy > Canada
- Occupational training for minorities > Canada
- Occupational training for women > Canada
- People with social disabilities > Employment > Canada
- Programmes d'action positive > Canada
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [254]-267) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Who wins, who loses: the real story of the transfer of training to the provinces and its impact on women / Ursule Critoph -- Snakes and ladders: coherence in training for office workers / Alice de Wolff and Maureen Hynes -- The road to equity: training women and First Nations on the Vancouver Island highway / Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Kate Braid -- Women's training and equity on the Hibernia construction project / Susan Hart and Mark Shrimpton -- The culture of construction: or, etiquette for the nontraditional / Kate Braid -- Hammering their way through the barriers: low-income women retrain to be carpenters / Margaret Little -- Training and retraining health workers amid health care restructuring, downsizing, and rationalization: the case of health care aides / Larry Haiven and Liz Quinlan -- Community skills training by and for immigrant women / Margaret Manery and Marjorie Griffin Cohen -- Life skills training: 'open for discussion' / Shauna Butterwick -- Pathways to employment for women: apprenticeship or college training? / Robert Sweet -- Public policy and women's access to training in New Brunswick / Joan McFarland -- Still shopping for training: women, training, and livelihoods / Karen Lior and Susan Wismer -- Youth employment programs in British Columbia: taking the high road or the low road? / Linda Wong and Stephen McBride -- Training youth at risk: a model program in Quebec / Sylvain Bourdon and Frédéric Deschenaux.
- ISBN
- 0774810068
- LCCN
- ^^2003374447
- OCLC
- 52576170
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library