Workforce Intermediaries : For The 21St Century.
Title:
Workforce Intermediaries : For The 21St Century.
Author:
Giloth, Robert.
ISBN:
9781439903865
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (433 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword / David H. Mortimer -- I. Introduction -- 1. Introduction: A Case for Workforce Intermediaries / Robert P. Giloth -- 2. Whose Job Is It? Creating Opportunities for Advancement / Nan Poppe, Julie Strawn, and Karin Martinson -- II. Who Are Workforce Intermediaries and What Do They Do? -- 3. What Do Workforce Intermediaries Do? / Richard Kazis -- 4. The Workforce Intermediary: Profiling the Field of Practice and Its Challenges / Cindy Marano and Kim Tarr -- 5. Workforce Intermediaries: Recent Experience and Implications for Workforce Development / Richard McGahey -- III. Economic and Policy Rationales for Workforce Intermediaries -- 6. Labor Market Intermediaries in the Modern Labor Market / Paul Osterman -- 7. The Political Economy of Labor Market Mediation in the United States / Anthony P. Carnevale and Donna M. Desrochers -- IV. Customer Voices -- 8. Creating and Sustaining a Coherent Voice for Employers in Workforce Development: The Cleveland Experience / Daniel E. Berry -- 9. Perception vs. Reality: Employer Attitudes and the Rebranding of Workforce Intermediaries / Jessica K. Laufer and Sian Winship -- 10. How Do Workers See Advancement? / Roberta Rehner Iversen -- 11. Labor Market Intermediaries in the Old and New Economies: A Survey of Worker Experiences in Milwaukee and Silicon Valley / Laura Leete, Chris Benner, Manuel Pastor Jr., and Sarah Zimmerman -- V. Building Workforce Intermediaries -- 12. Financing Workforce Intermediaries / Jerry Rubin, Marlene B. Seltzer, and Jack Mills -- 13. The Final Act: The Challenges of Implementing Workforce Development Policy via Nonprofit Organizations / William P. Ryan -- 14. Community Development Intermediation and Its Lessons for the Workforce Field / Christopher Walker and John Foster-Bey -- VI. Conclusion.
15. Conclusion: A Future for Workforce Intermediaries / Robert P. Giloth -- Appendix -- Final Report of the 102nd American Assembly -- Steering Committee Workforce Intermediaries Project -- About The American Assembly -- About the Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Abstract:
Confronted with businesses facing a long-term shortage of skilled workers and evaluations showing that job training for the poor over the past 25 years had produced only meager results, a number of groups throughout the country have sought to find a more effective approach. The efforts of these partnerships, which editor Robert Giloth calls "workforce intermediaries," are characterized by a focus on improving business productivity and helping low-income individuals not just find a job, but advance over time to jobs that enable them to support themselves and their families. This book takes stock of the world of workforce intermediaries: entrepreneurial partnerships that include businesses, unions, community colleges, and community organizations. Noted scholars and policy makers examine the development and effectiveness of these intermediaries, and a concluding chapter discusses where we need to go from here, if society is to provide a more coherent approach to increasing the viability and capacity of these important institutions.Published in association with The American Assembly, Columbia University.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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