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All I Want Is a Job! Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System

Name: All I Want Is a Job!
Author: Mary Gatta

Auteur: Mary Gatta

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Mary Gatta Gatta Mary

Engels
Paperback
9780804790826
02 april 2014
168 pagina's

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In All I Want Is a Job!, Mary Gatta puts a human face on workforce development policy. An ethnographic sociologist, Gatta went undercover, posing as a client in a New Jersey One-Stop Career Center. One-Stop Centers, developed as part of the federal Workforce Investment Act, are supposed to be an unemployed worker's go-to resource on the way to re-employment. But, how well do these centers function? With swarms of new clients coming through their doors, are they fit for the task of pairing America's workforce with new jobs? Weaving together her own account with interviews of jobless women and caseworkers, Gatta offers a revealing glimpse of the toll that unemployment takes and the realities of social policy. Women-both educated and unskilled-are particularly vulnerable in the current economy. Since they are routinely paid less than their male counterparts, economic security is even harder for them to grasp. And, women are more easily tracked into available, low-wage work in sectors such as retail or food service. Originally designed to pair job-ready workers with available openings, the current system is ill fitted for diverse clients who are seeking gainful employment. Even if One-Stops were better suited to the needs of these workers, good jobs are scarce in the wake of the Great Recession. In spite of these pitfalls, Gatta saw hope and a sense of empowerment in clients who got intensive career counseling, new jobs, and social support. Drawing together tales from the frontlines, she highlights the promise and weaknesses of One-Stop Career Centers, recommending key shifts in workforce policy. America deserves a system that is less discriminatory, more human, and better able to assist women and their families in particular. The employed and unemployed alike would be better served by such a system-one that would meaningfully contribute to our economic recovery and future prosperity.

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Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 april 2014
Aantal pagina's: 168
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Hoofdauteur: Mary Gatta
Tweede Auteur: Gatta Mary
Hoofduitgeverij: Stanford University Press

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Product breedte: 142 mm
Product hoogte: 12 mm
Product lengte: 215 mm
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Verpakking hoogte: 216 mm
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