Training the excluded for work : access and equity for women, immigrants, first nations, youth, and people with low income /

Training the excluded for work : access and equity for women, immigrants, first nations, youth, and people with low income / edited by Marjorie Griffin Cohen. - xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-267) and index.

Who Wins, Who Loses: The Real Story of the Transfer of Training to the Provinces and Its Impact on Women / Snakes and Ladders: Coherence in Training for Office Workers / The Road to Equity: Training Women and First Nations on the Vancouver Island Highway / Women's Training and Equity on the Hibernia Construction Project / The Culture of Construction: Or, Etiquette for the Nontraditional / Hammering Their Way through the Barriers: Low-Income Women Retrain to Be Carpenters / Training and Retraining Health Workers amid Health Care Restructuring, Downsizing, and Rationalization: The Case of Health Care Aides / Community Skills Training by and for Immigrant Women / Life Skills Training: "Open for Discussion" / Pathways to Employment for Women: Apprenticeship or College Training? / Public Policy and Women's Access to Training in New Brunswick / Still Shopping for Training: Women, Training, and Livelihoods / Youth Employment Programs in British Columbia: Taking the High Road or the Low Road? / Training Youth at Risk: A Model Program in Quebec / Ursule Critoph -- Alice de Wolff and Maureen Hynes -- Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Kate Braid -- Susan Hart and Mark Shrimpton -- Kate Braid -- Margaret Little -- Larry Haiven and Liz Quinlan -- Margaret Manery and Marjorie Griffin Cohen -- Shauna Butterwick -- Robert Sweet -- Joan McFarland -- Karen Lior and Susan Wismer -- Linda Wong and Stephen McBride -- Sylvain Bourdon and Frederic Deschenaux. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

"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.

0774810068 9780774810067

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Occupational training for women--Canada
Occupational training for minorities--Canada
Affirmative action programs--Canada
People with social disabilities--Employment--Canada
Occupational training--Evaluation--Canada
Occupational training--Social aspects--Canada

HD5715.5.C2 / T73 2003

374.0130971

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