Training the excluded work : access and equity for women, immigrants, first nations, youth, and people with low income

Cohen, Marjorie Griffin, 1944- (Added Author).

Summary: "Training the Excluded for Work is a comprehensive discussion of job education in Canada that will be of interest to community groups, trade unionists, policy makers, academics, and students interested in policy, work, equity, gender, and training."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9780774810067 (bound) :
ISBN: 0774810068 (bound) :
Physical Description: print
xii, 276 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Who Wins, Who Loses: The Real Story of the Transfer of Training to the Provinces and Its Impact on Women / Ursule Critoph -- 2. Snakes and Ladders: Coherence in Training for Office Workers / Alice de Wolff and Maureen Hynes -- 3. The Road to Equity: Training Women and First Nations on the Vancouver Island Highway / Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Kate Braid -- 4. Women's Training and Equity on the Hibernia Construction Project / Susan Hart and Mark Shrimpton -- 5. The Culture of Construction: Or, Etiquette for the Nontraditional / Kate Braid -- 6. Hammering Their Way through the Barriers: Low-Income Women Retrain to Be Carpenters / Margaret Little -- 7. Training and Retraining Health Workers amid Health Care Restructuring, Downsizing, and Rationalization: The Case of Health Care Aides / Larry Haiven and Liz Quinlan -- 8. Community Skills Training by and for Immigrant Women / Margaret Manery and Marjorie Griffin Cohen -- 9. Life Skills Training: "Open for Discussion" / Shauna Butterwick -- 10. Pathways to Employment for Women: Apprenticeship or College Training? / Robert Sweet -- 11. Public Policy and Women's Access to Training in New Brunswick / Joan McFarland -- 12. Still Shopping for Training: Women, Training, and Livelihoods / Karen Lior and Susan Wismer -- 13. Youth Employment Programs in British Columbia: Taking the High Road or the Low Road? / Linda Wong and Stephen McBride -- 14. Training Youth at Risk: A Model Program in Quebec / Sylvain Bourdon and Frederic Deschenaux.