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

Name: All I Want Is a Job! Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System
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ISBN: 9780804790826

ISBN-10: 0804790825

ISBN-13: 9780804790826

Edition: 2014

Authors: Mary Gatta

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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…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 4/2/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.39" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English