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Overview
"Job-centered economic development" integrates approaches from the fields of economic development, employment training, social services and community development. Its strategies focus on connecting disadvantaged adults and youth to family-supporting jobs in their towns, cities and regional economies, and ensuring that these jobs are sustainable, thus providing the basis for long-term careers. This collection of perspectives helps tie those approaches together into a guide for community development and local economic development professionals.
Synopsis
"Job-centered economic development" integrates approaches from the fields of economic development, employment training, social services and community development. Its strategies focus on connecting disadvantaged adults and youth to family-supporting jobs in their towns, cities and regional economies, and ensuring that these jobs are sustainable, thus providing the basis for long-term careers. This collection of perspectives helps tie those approaches together into a guide for community development and local economic development professionals.
Booknews
Theoreticians, analysts, and practitioners share their experience with job-centered economic development, and explore assumptions, design tools, case studies, policies, politics, and evaluation challenges. They represent a range of approaches and maturity of technique, focusing mostly on inner-city communities. The 13 studies seem to have emerged from a March 1997 conference in Washington, DC, sponsored by the organization Jobs for the Future. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.