Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Acronyms xi
6. Introduction 3
7. Who Wins, Who Loses: The Real Story of the Transfer of Training to the Provinces and Its Impact on Women 14
8. Snakes and Ladders: Coherence in Training for Office Workers 34
9. The Road to Equity: Training Women and First Nations on the Vancouver Island Highway 53
10. Women’s Training and Equity on the Hibernia Construction Project 75
11. The Culture of Construction: Or, Etiquette for the Nontraditional 91
12. Hammering Their Way through the Barriers: Low-Income Women Retrain to Be Carpenters 108
13. Training and Retraining Health Workers amid Health Care Restructuring, Downsizing, and Rationalization: The Case of Health Care Aides 124
14. Community Skills Training by and for Immigrant Women 145
15. Life Skills Training: “Open for Discussion” 161
16. Pathways to Employment for Women: Apprenticeship or College Training? 178
17. Public Policy and Women’s Access to Training in New Brunswick 193
18. Still Shopping for Training: Women, Training, and Livelihoods 214
19. Youth Employment Programs in British Columbia: Taking the High Road or the Low Road? 230
20. Training Youth at Risk: A Model Program in Quebec 245
21. Bibliography 254
22. Contributors 268
23. Index 271