1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990008309750403321

Titolo

L'amministrazione della Regione : proposte di riforma : seminari di aggiornamento per quadri pubblici ottobre 1976 - aprile 1977

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palermo : ISAS, 1978

Descrizione fisica

211 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Pubblicazioni del Centro Studi Sociali - ISAS . Serie "Società in trasformazione" ; 0005

Disciplina

342

Locazione

DDA

Collocazione

VI G 426

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957448003321

Titolo

Workforce development politics : civic capacity and performance / / edited by Robert P. Giloth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2004

ISBN

9786612701122

9781282701120

1282701126

9781439904589

1439904588

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GilothRobert

Disciplina

331.12/042/0973

Soggetti

Hard-core unemployed - Government policy - United States

Urban poor - Employment - Government policy - United States

Job creation - Government policy - United States

Occupational training - Government policy - United States

Full employment policies - United States

Community development, Urban - United States

Economic development projects - United States

Local government - United States



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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