Workforce intermediaries for the twenty-first century /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2004.
Description:	viii, 424 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Hard-core unemployed -- Services for -- United States. Hard-core unemployed -- Services for -- United States -- Case studies. Welfare recipients -- Employment -- Government policy -- United States. Occupational training -- Government policy -- United States. Employment agencies -- United States. Employment agencies. Hard-core unemployed -- Services for. Occupational training -- Government policy. Welfare recipients -- Employment -- Government policy. United States. Case studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5038069

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Varying Form of Title:	Workforce intermediaries for the 21st century
Other authors / contributors:	Giloth, Robert.
ISBN:	1592132049 (cloth)
Notes:	"Published in association with The American Assembly, Columbia University". Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
I. Introduction
1. Introduction: A Case for Workforce Intermediaries
2. Whose Job Is It? Creating Opportunities for Advancement
II. Who Are Workforce Intermediaries and What Do They Do?
3. What Do Workforce Intermediaries Do?
4. The Workforce Intermediary: Profiling the Field of Practice and Its Challenges
5. Workforce Intermediaries: Recent Experience and Implications for Workforce Development
III. Economic and Policy Rationales for Workforce Intermediaries
6. Labor Market Intermediaries in the Modern Labor Market
7. The Policical Economy of Labor Market Mediation in the United States
IV. Customer Voices
8. Creating and Sustaining a Coherent Voice for Employers in Workforce Development: The Cleveland Experience
9. Perception vs. Reality: Employer Attitudes and the Rebranding of Workforce Intermediaries
10. How Do Workers See Advancement?
11. Labor Market Intermediaries in the Old and New Economies: A Survey of Worker Experiences in Milwaukee and Silicon Valley
V. Building Workforce Intermediaries
12. Financing Workforce Intermediaries
13. The Final Act: The Challenges of Implementing Workforce Development Policy via Nonprofit Organizations
14. Community Development Intermediation and Its Lessons for the Workforce Field
VI. Conclusion
15. Conclusion: A Future for Workforce Intermediaries
Appendix
Final Report of the 102nd American Assembly
Steering Committee Workforce Intermediaries Project
About The American Assembly
About the Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index

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