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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449914703321

Autore

MeleĢndez Edwin

Titolo

Communities and Workforce Development [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kalamazoo, : W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2004

ISBN

1-4175-9631-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (509 p.)

Disciplina

331.25920973

Soggetti

Employees -- Training of -- United States

Occupational training -- United States

Public welfare -- United States

Welfare recipients -- Employment -- United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 - Communities and Workforce Development in the Era of Devolution, by Edwin Melendez""; ""2 - Competing for Contracts: Nonprofit Survival in an Age of Privatization, by M. Bryna Sanger""; ""3 - CBOs and the One-Stop Career Center System, by Ramon Borges-Mendez and Edwin Melendez""; ""4 - Union-Sponsored Workforce Development Initiatives, by Beverly Takahashi and Edwin Melendez""; ""5 - Addressing the Employment Challenge for the Formerly Homeless: Supportive Housing in New York City, by Alex Schwartz, Edwin Melendez, and Sarah Gallagher""

""6 - Workforce Development in the Information Technology Age, by Michael A. Stoll""""7 - Community Technology Centers: Training Disadvantaged Workers for Information Technology Jobs, by Lisa J. Servon""; ""8 - Beyond the First Job: Career Ladder Initiatives in Information Technology Industries, by Laura Wolf-Powers""; ""9 - Community Colleges, Welfare Reform, and Workforce Development, by Edwin Melendez, Luis M. Falcon, Carlos Suarez-Boulangger, Lynn McCormick, and Alexandra de Montrichard""

""10 - Innovators Under Duress: Community Colleges in New York's Workfare Setting, by Lynn McCormick""""11 - Community Colleges as Workforce Intermediaries: Building Career Ladders for Low-Wage



Workers, by Joan Fitzgerald""; ""12 - Interorganizational Networks among Community-Based Organizations, by Hector R. Cordero-Guzman""; ""13 - Corporate-Community Workforce Development Collaborations, by Stacey A. Sutton""; ""The Authors""; ""Index""; ""About the Institute""