Title Training the excluded for work : access and equity for women, immigrants, first nations, youth, and people with low income / edited by Marjorie Griffin Cohen

Published Vancouver : UBC Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations Contents Who wins, who loses: the real story of the transfer of training to the provinces and its impact on women / Ursule Critoph -- Snakes and ladders: coherence in training for office workers / Alice de Wolff and Maureen Hynes -- The road to equity: training women and First Nations on the Vancouver Island highway / Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Kate Braid -- Women's training and equity on the Hibernia construction project / Susan Hart and Mark Shrimpton -- The culture of construction: or, etiquette for the nontraditional / Kate Braid -- Hammering their way through the barriers: low-income women retrain to be carpenters / Margaret Little -- Training and retraining health workers amid health care restructuring, downsizing, and rationalization: the case of health care aides / Larry Haiven and Liz Quinlan -- Community skills training by and for immigrant women / Margaret Manery and Marjorie Griffin Cohen -- Life skills training: 'open for discussion' / Shauna Butterwick -- Pathways to employment for women: apprenticeship or college training? / Robert Sweet -- Public policy and women's access to training in New Brunswick / Joan McFarland -- Still shopping for training: women, training, and livelihoods / Karen Lior and Susan Wismer -- Youth employment programs in British Columbia: taking the high road or the low road? / Linda Wong and Stephen McBride -- Training youth at risk: a model program in Quebec / Sylvain Bourdon and Frédéric Deschenaux Summary "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Occupational training for women -- Canada Occupational training for minorities -- Canada Occupational training -- Government policy -- Canada Affirmative action programs -- Canada People with social disabilities -- Employment -- Canada Hard-core unemployed -- Canada EDUCATION -- Adult & Continuing Education. EDUCATION -- Non-Formal Education. Hard-core unemployed Affirmative action programs Occupational training for minorities Occupational training for women Occupational training -- Government policy People with social disabilities -- Employment Arbeitnehmer Aufsatzsammlung Berufliche Qualifikation Formation professionnelle. Immigrant. Égalité des chances. Politique gouvernementale. Programme de formation. Programme d'accès à l'égalité Femme. Canada Kanada Canada. Form Electronic book Author Cohen, Marjorie Griffin, 1944- ISBN 0774850515 9780774850513 0774810076 9780774810074

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