Training the Excluded for Work: Access and Equity for Women, Immigrants, First Nations, Youth, and People with Low Income

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Training the Excluded for Work

Access and Equity for Women, Immigrants, First Nations, Youth, and People with Low Income

Edited by: Marjorie Griffin Cohen

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2007

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In recent years job training programs have suffered severe funding cuts and the focus of training programs has shifted to meet the directives of funders rather than the needs of the community. How do these changes to job training affect disadvantaged workers and the unemployed?

In an insightful and comprehensive discussion of job education in Canada, Cohen and her contributors pool findings from a five-year collaborative study of training programs. Good training programs, they argue, are essential in providing people who are chronically disadvantaged in the workplace with tools to acquire more secure, better-paying jobs. In the ongoing shift toward a neo-liberal economic model, government policies have engendered a growing reliance on private and market-based training schemes. These new training policies have undermined equity.

In an attempt to redress social inequities in the workplace, the authors examine various kinds of training programs and recommend specific policy initiatives to improve access to these programs. This book will be of interest to policymakers, academics, and students interested in policy, work, equity, gender and education.

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Marjorie Griffin Cohen is a member of the Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University.

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Contents
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Figures and Tables
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Acknowledgments
ix

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Acronyms
xi

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Introduction
3

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Who Wins, Who Loses: The Real Story of the Transfer of Training to the Provinces and Its Impact on Women
14
Ursule Critoph

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Snakes and Ladders: Coherence in Training for Office Workers
34
Alice de Wolff and Maureen Hynes

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The Road to Equity: Training Women and First Nations on the Vancouver Island Highway
53
Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Kate Braid

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Women’s Training and Equity on the Hibernia Construction Project
75
Susan Hart and Mark Shrimpton

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The Culture of Construction: Or, Etiquette for the Nontraditional
91
Kate Braid

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Hammering Their Way through the Barriers: Low-Income Women Retrain to Be Carpenters
108
Margaret Little

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Training and Retraining Health Workers amid Health Care Restructuring, Downsizing, and Rationalization: The Case of Health Care Aides
124
Larry Haiven and Liz Quinlan

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Community Skills Training by and for Immigrant Women
145
Margaret Manery and Marjorie Griffin Cohen

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Life Skills Training: “Open for Discussion”
161
Shauna Butterwick

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Pathways to Employment for Women: Apprenticeship or College Training?
178
Robert Sweet

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Public Policy and Women’s Access to Training in New Brunswick
193
Joan McFarland

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Still Shopping for Training: Women, Training, and Livelihoods
214
Karen Lior and Susan Wismer

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Youth Employment Programs in British Columbia: Taking the High Road or the Low Road?
230
Linda Wong and Stephen McBride

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Training Youth at Risk: A Model Program in Quebec
245
Sylvain Bourdon and Frédéric Deschenaux

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Bibliography
254

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Contributors
268

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Index
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Training the Excluded for Work

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Front Matter

Contents

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Acronyms

Introduction

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

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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