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The Job Training Charade (Collection on Technology and Work) Lafer, Gordon pape
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- ISBN
- 9780801489518
- Book Title
- Job Training Charade
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Business & Economics, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Training, Labor & Industrial Relations, Sociology / General, Labor
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 32.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Job training has long been promoted as a central policy response to poverty and unemployment. Both Democrats and Republicans have trumpeted training as the answer to everything from welfare to NAFTA. The Job Training Charade provides a comprehensive...
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
0801489512
ISBN-13
9780801489518
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30786240
Product Key Features
Book Title
Job Training Charade
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Training, Labor & Industrial Relations, Sociology / General, Labor
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Business & Economics, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Hd5715.2
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"With the collapse of the high-tech 'new economy,' The Job Training Charade can be useful for understanding the dangers facing newly unemployed workers and for combating ideas of the right wing'which blame poverty on the lack of skills or motivation of poor people themselves."-Keith Rosenthal, International Socialist Review, November-December 2002, "In this well-written and hard-hitting critique, Lafer . . . argues that job training, as a federal policy response to poverty and unemployment, has been a near total failure. . . . This well-researched and insightful book should provoke widespread debate among scholars, politicians, policy makers, labor leaders, and employment and training professionals alike."-Choice, December 2002, "Lafer's intention is to provide 'the first comprehensive critique of the history, track record, and economic assumptions underlying' American job training policies since the early 1960s (page 1). His book delivers on that promise. From cover to cover, it is an unrelenting, tough, thoroughly documented, passionately argued, and uncompromising indictment of the politicians, powerful economic interests and bureaucrats he holds responsible for the policies he so roundly condemns."-Michael Law, University of Waikato. Journal of Industrial Relations, Sept. 2003., "The Job Training Charade could become a modern classic of economic and policy analysis. It is massive, relentless, elegantly organized and written, and comprehensive in establishing both the intellectual and the political context of the argument."--James K. Galbraith, University of Texas, Austin, "The Job Training Charade could become a modern classic of economic and policy analysis. It is massive, relentless, elegantly organized and written, and comprehensive in establishing both the intellectual and the political context of the argument."-James K. Galbraith, University of Texas, Austin, Lafer's intention is to provide 'the first comprehensive critique of the history, track record, and economic assumptions underlying' American job training policies since the early 1960s (page 1). His book delivers on that promise. From cover to cover, it is an unrelenting, tough, thoroughly documented, passionately argued, and uncompromising indictment of the politicians, powerful economic interests and bureaucrats he holds responsible for the policies he so roundly condemns., "The Job Training Charade provides an incisive and insightful discussion of the political economy of training. Gordon Lafer explains that the notion that the government has a role to play in job creation was replaced with the far more anemic and low-budget view that government's role can be reduced to providing job training. This timely and original book is well written and will make a significant contribution to upcoming debates about welfare reform."--Eileen Appelbaum, Director of the Center for Women and Work, Rutgers University, "In The Job Training Charade, Lafer attacks the U.S. economic policy that calls for the advancement of the skills and education of American workers as their way out of poverty. . . . Agree or not, readers will be challenged by this criticism of the underpinnings of American labor policy."-Harvard Business School, Working Knowledge, Aug. 5, 2002, "Why does job training remain the policy of choice to address poverty and underemployment even though it has an almost totally unimpressive record of accomplishment? Gordon Lafer answers this question with original, sophisticated research and argument. The Job Training Charade is a must-read for anyone interested in the links between politics, ideology and public policy."--Adolph Reed, Jr. , New School for Social Research, "Lafer suggests there are other things the government could do that would help more than training. Among those are restricting the use of permanent-temp workers; stopping competition from goods made under illegal conditions in other countries; increasing the minimum wage; and capping prescription drug and health care costs."-Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, March 31, 2003, "Lafer's intention is to provide 'the first comprehensive critique of the history, track record, and economic assumptions underlying' American job training policies since the early 1960s (page 1). His book delivers on that promise. From cover to cover, it is an unrelenting, tough, thoroughly documented, passionately argued, and uncompromising indictment of the politicians, powerful economic interests and bureaucrats he holds responsible for the policies he so roundly condemns."--Michael Law, University of Waikato. Journal of Industrial Relations, Sept. 2003., In this well-written and hard-hitting critique, Lafer... argues that job training, as a federal policy response to poverty and unemployment, has been a near total failure.... This well-researched and insightful book should provoke widespread debate among scholars, politicians, policy makers, labor leaders, and employment and training professionals alike., "With the collapse of the high-tech 'new economy,' The Job Training Charade can be useful for understanding the dangers facing newly unemployed workers and for combating ideas of the right wing'which blame poverty on the lack of skills or motivation of poor people themselves."--Keith Rosenthal, International Socialist Review, November-December 2002, "Lafer suggests there are other things the government could do that would help more than training. Among those are restricting the use of permanent-temp workers; stopping competition from goods made under illegal conditions in other countries; increasing the minimum wage; and capping prescription drug and health care costs."--Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, March 31, 2003, "In The Job Training Charade, Lafer attacks the U.S. economic policy that calls for the advancement of the skills and education of American workers as their way out of poverty. . . . Agree or not, readers will be challenged by this criticism of the underpinnings of American labor policy."--Harvard Business School, Working Knowledge, Aug. 5, 2002, "The Job Training Charade provides an incisive and insightful discussion of the political economy of training. Gordon Lafer explains that the notion that the government has a role to play in job creation was replaced with the far more anemic and low-budget view that government's role can be reduced to providing job training. This timely and original book is well written and will make a significant contribution to upcoming debates about welfare reform."-Eileen Appelbaum, Director of the Center for Women and Work, Rutgers University, "In this well-written and hard-hitting critique, Lafer . . . argues that job training, as a federal policy response to poverty and unemployment, has been a near total failure. . . . This well-researched and insightful book should provoke widespread debate among scholars, politicians, policy makers, labor leaders, and employment and training professionals alike."--Choice, December 2002, In The Job Training Charade, Lafer attacks the U.S. economic policy that calls for the advancement of the skills and education of American workers as their way out of poverty.... Agree or not, readers will be challenged by this criticism of the underpinnings of American labor policy., Lafer suggests there are other things the government could do that would help more than training. Among those are restricting the use of permanent-temp workers; stopping competition from goods made under illegal conditions in other countries; increasing the minimum wage; and capping prescription drug and health care costs.
Copyright Date
2004
Lccn
2001-008387
Dewey Decimal
331.25/92/0973
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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