Workforce Intermediaries
Author: Robert Giloth
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2010-06-04
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1439903867
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The institutions who work to match employers and employees.
Author: Robert Giloth
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2010-06-04
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1439903867
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Author: Aspen Aspen Institute
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781499297638
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With many Americans striving to build their skills to get jobs in a rapidly changing economy, the workforce development field has seen a significant increase in sector strategies, which focus on the specific skills that employers need and address the real-world challenges facing low-income workers. Maureen Conway and Robert P. Giloth deliver a robust volume featuring perspectives from prominent nonprofit and philanthropy leaders, academics and researchers to capture how sector-based workforce development, in industries ranging from health to construction, has evolved over 30 years - and how it can continue to grow and inform future investments and policy decisions. The book offers lessons for policymakers, philanthropic investors, researchers and local leaders interested in policies and practices that support strong businesses while helping struggling Americans connect to good jobs. Connecting People to Work features case studies of organizations implementing sector-based workforce development strategies in the health care, construction, manufacturing and restaurant industries, and highlights how policy and economic changes and new practices among education and training institutions are affecting workforce development efforts. It also includes evaluation results and a review of major sector-financing strategies. The book discusses the need for these workforce strategies at a time when many people are out of work or underemployed and face a labor market that is difficult to navigate. Too many workers today earn too little to make ends meet, and they often lack the time or resources to participate in local education programs that may or may not help them find work. Many low-wage workers often need additional support as they go through training, an approach generally adopted by sector strategies. The results chronicled in the book make clear that such strategies can help create viable opportunities for more Americans to gain the skills they need to achieve greater financial stability.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Subcommittee on Employment, Safety, and Training
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2008-03-21
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9264043284
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report provides valuable insights into how labour policies can be expanded to meet economic development and social cohesion goals, while also reconciling national and local concerns.
Author: Roberta Rehner Iversen
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781592133574
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Job opportunity is a myth for 25% of U.S. wage earners.
Author: Malo Hutson
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This research study examines the role that workforce intermediaries within Boston play in creating career pathways for economically disadvantaged, under-skilled residents in the local health care industry. Using a case study analysis, this study compares the outcomes of two workforce intermediaries-one which is employer-led and the other which is led by a community development corporation. Despite the proliferation of new workforce intermediaries around the country and the increased amount of funding to support them from the private and public sectors, these institutions are limited in their ability to increase the supply of a skilled workforce and to change the demand-side of the labor market. However, given the current structural holes in the publicly funded workforce development system, workforce intermediaries play a critical role in serving populations who otherwise would have a difficult time entering into the regional labor market.
Author: Nichola Lowe
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2023-05-09
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 0262547910
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An argument for reimagining skill in a way that can extend economic opportunity to workers at the bottom of the labor market. The United States has a jobs problem—not enough well-paying jobs to go around and not enough clear pathways leading to them. Skill development is critical for addressing this employment crisis, but there are many unresolved questions about who has skill, how it is attained, and whose responsibility it is to build skills over time. In this book, Nichola Lowe tells the stories of pioneering workforce intermediaries—nonprofits, unions, community colleges—that harness this ambiguity around skill to extend economic opportunity to workers at the bottom of the labor market. Skill development confers shared value to both workers and employers because it lies at the intersection of their respective interests. Connecting skill to economic inequality, Lowe calls for solutions that push employers to accept greater responsibility for skill development. She examines real-world examples of workplace intermediaries throughout the United States, exploring in detail the work of manufacturing-focused organizations in Chicago and Milwaukee, and a network of community colleges in North Carolina that coordinates training for biopharmaceutical manufacturers. As workforce intermediaries help employers reinterpret skill, they also convince them to implement inclusive work-based systems that extend family-sustaining wages and better working conditions across the entire workforce. With renewed policy emphasis on skill development, these opportunity-rich solutions can be further expanded—ensuring workers across the entire educational spectrum contribute skills that drive innovation forward and share the gains they generate for the twenty-first century workplace.
Author: Erik Schneiderhan (Professor of sociology)
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carl E. Van Horn
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780692163184
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