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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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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

Topics

Social Sciences Sociology Sociology, other

Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acronyms Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	3
Who Wins, Who Loses: The Real Story of the Transfer of Training to the Provinces and Its Impact on Women Ursule Critoph Publicly Available Download PDF	14
Snakes and Ladders: Coherence in Training for Office Workers Alice de Wolff and Maureen Hynes Publicly Available Download PDF	34
The Road to Equity: Training Women and First Nations on the Vancouver Island Highway Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Kate Braid Publicly Available Download PDF	53
Women’s Training and Equity on the Hibernia Construction Project Susan Hart and Mark Shrimpton Publicly Available Download PDF	75
The Culture of Construction: Or, Etiquette for the Nontraditional Kate Braid Publicly Available Download PDF	91
Hammering Their Way through the Barriers: Low-Income Women Retrain to Be Carpenters Margaret Little Publicly Available Download PDF	108
Training and Retraining Health Workers amid Health Care Restructuring, Downsizing, and Rationalization: The Case of Health Care Aides Larry Haiven and Liz Quinlan Publicly Available Download PDF	124
Community Skills Training by and for Immigrant Women Margaret Manery and Marjorie Griffin Cohen Publicly Available Download PDF	145
Life Skills Training: “Open for Discussion” Shauna Butterwick Publicly Available Download PDF	161
Pathways to Employment for Women: Apprenticeship or College Training? Robert Sweet Publicly Available Download PDF	178
Public Policy and Women’s Access to Training in New Brunswick Joan McFarland Publicly Available Download PDF	193
Still Shopping for Training: Women, Training, and Livelihoods Karen Lior and Susan Wismer Publicly Available Download PDF	214
Youth Employment Programs in British Columbia: Taking the High Road or the Low Road? Linda Wong and Stephen McBride Publicly Available Download PDF	230
Training Youth at Risk: A Model Program in Quebec Sylvain Bourdon and Frédéric Deschenaux Publicly Available Download PDF	245
Bibliography Publicly Available Download PDF	254
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	268
Index Publicly Available Download PDF	271

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

October 1, 2007

eBook ISBN:

9780774850513

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288

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11 b&w illustrations, 13 tables

https://doi.org/10.59962/9780774850513

eBook ISBN: 9780774850513

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Training the Excluded for Work

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