附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- 1 -- Communities and Workforce Development in the Era of Devolution, by Edwin Melendez -- 2 -- Competing for Contracts: Nonprofit Survival in an Age of Privatization, by M. Bryna Sanger -- 3 -- CBOs and the One-Stop Career Center System, by Ramon Borges-Mendez and Edwin Melendez -- 4 -- Union-Sponsored Workforce Development Initiatives, by Beverly Takahashi and Edwin Melendez -- 5 -- Addressing the Employment Challenge for the Formerly Homeless: Supportive Housing in New York City, by Alex Schwartz, Edwin Melendez, and Sarah Gallagher.
6 -- Workforce Development in the Information Technology Age, by Michael A. Stoll -- 7 -- Community Technology Centers: Training Disadvantaged Workers for Information Technology Jobs, by Lisa J. Servon -- 8 -- Beyond the First Job: Career Ladder Initiatives in Information Technology Industries, by Laura Wolf-Powers -- 9 -- Community Colleges, Welfare Reform, and Workforce Development, by Edwin Melendez, Luis M. Falcon, Carlos Suarez-Boulangger, Lynn McCormick, and Alexandra de Montrichard -- 10 -- Innovators Under Duress: Community Colleges in New York's Workfare Setting, by Lynn McCormick.
11 -- Community Colleges as Workforce Intermediaries: Building Career Ladders for Low-Wage Workers, by Joan Fitzgerald -- 12 -- Interorganizational Networks among Community-Based Organizations, by Hector R. Cordero-Guzman -- 13 -- Corporate-Community Workforce Development Collaborations, by Stacey A. Sutton -- The Authors -- Index -- About the Institute.
摘要:Annotation The emergence of more dynamic LMIs is partly a response to the growing demand for workers, which was fueled by the economic expansion of the 1990s, but it has also been greatly shaped byat least two major policy shocks in the latter half of the decade: welfare reform and therevamping of federal employment training programs under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA)of 1998. The combined impact of these forces induced many organizations to become moreactive in workforce development, and many others transformed their operations and adapted tothe new, more competitive and uncertain environment. The evidence discussed in detail in thisvolume suggests several important trends. For one, traditional service providers have had toadapt to a shift in focus from vocational training, often based on classroom pedagogy, to jobreadiness training that follows a "work first" philosophy. Other important developments includegreater experimentation with program design, greater specialization among service providers, greater employer participation in workforce development programs, and greater collaborationamong various institutions and service providers.
