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Autore: | Little Margaret Jane Hillyard <1958-> |
Titolo: | If I had a hammer : retraining that really works / / Margaret Hillyard Little |
Pubblicazione: | Vancouver, : UBC Press, 2005 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (193 p.) |
Disciplina: | 331.4/2592/0971 |
Soggetto topico: | Occupational training for women - Canada |
Poor women - Employment - Canada | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Laying the Foundation""; ""3 The Everyday Lives of Our Heroes""; ""4 From Blueprint to Reality: Challenges at the Job Site""; ""5 Measuring Success""; ""6 “ A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out�: Let�s Get Serious about Retraining""; ""Appendices""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book is about poor women, many of them single mothers, Aboriginal, or both, who have defied the odds to become apprenticing carpenters. To do so they have juggled child-care schedules, left abusive partners, and kicked drug habits to participate in a unique intensive retraining program. Through the voices of the women participants and their instructors, Margaret Little analyzes the program to reveal the struggles and triumphs of low-income women. She demonstrates that there is a desperate need for retraining programs that provide real opportunities for economic independence. She also argues that, in an era of workfare and time-limited welfare, such programs are an effective strategy for welfare reform. |
Titolo autorizzato: | If I had a hammer |
ISBN: | 9786610939381 |
1-280-93938-9 | |
0-7748-5127-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910823011403321 |
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