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Communities and workforce development

Title
Communities and workforce development / Edwin Meléndez, editor.
Publication
Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2004.

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Additional Authors
Meléndez, Edwin.
Description
x, 499 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
Annotation
Subject
  • Occupational training > United States
  • Employees > Training of > United States
  • Welfare recipients > Employment > United States
  • Public welfare > United States
  • Employees > Training of
  • Occupational training
  • Public welfare
  • Welfare recipients > Employment
  • Arbeitslosenhilfe
  • Berufliche Wiedereingliederung
  • Fürsorge
  • community development
  • labour force participation
  • employment service
  • training opportunity
  • trade union attitude
  • information technology
  • social reform
  • développement communautaire
  • taux d'activité
  • service de l'emploi
  • possibilités de formation
  • attitude syndicale
  • technologie de l'information
  • réforme sociale
  • desarrollo de la comunidad
  • tasa de actividad de mano de obra
  • servicio de empleo
  • oportunidades de formación
  • actitud sindical
  • tecnología de la información
  • reforma social
  • United States
  • USA
  • USA
  • Etats-Unis
  • Estados Unidos
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Communities and workforce development in the era of devolution / Edwin Meléndez -- Competing for contracts : nonprofit survival in an age of privatization / M. Bryna Sanger -- CBOs and the one-stop career center system / Ramón Borges-Méndez and Edwin Meléndez -- Union-sponsored workforce development initiatives / Beverly Takahashi and Edwin Meléndez -- Addressing the employment challenge for the formerly homeless : supportive housing in New York City / Alex Schwartz, Edwin Meléndez, and Sarah Gallagher -- Workforce development in the information technology age / Michael A. Stoll -- Community technology centers : training disadvantaged workers for information technology jobs / Lisa Servon -- Beyond the first job : career ladder initiatives in information technology industries / Laura Wolf-Powers -- Community colleges, welfare reform, and workforce development / Edwin Meléndez [and others] -- Innovators under duress : community colleges in New York's workfare setting / Lynn McCormick -- Community colleges as workforce intermediaries : building career ladders for low-wage workers / Joan Fitzgerald -- Interorgannational networks among community-based organizations / Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán -- Corporate-community workforce development collaborations / Stacey A. Sutton.
ISBN
  • 0880993162
  • 9780880993166
  • 0880993170
  • 9780880993173
LCCN
2004025118
OCLC
  • ocm56924860
  • 56924860
  • SCSB-1353992
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library