Workforce Development Networks: Community-Based Organizations and Regional Alliances

This book explores how labour markets are changing - jobs are being created but they pay less and job security is declining, as is the payoff for experience and seniority. The authors discuss training, private-public partnerships, job searching and community development corporations (CDCs) and community-based organizations (CBOs) as social agents. They also take the reader through numerous case studies, using examples from across the United States. They conclude with their recommendations for better design, promotion and evaluation of community-based workforce development networks.

This book explores how labour markets are changing - jobs are being created but they pay less and job security is declining, as is the payoff for experience and seniority. The authors discuss training, private-public partnerships, job searching and community development corporations (CDCs) and community-based organizations (CBOs) as social agents. They also take the reader through numerous case studies, using examples from across the United States. They conclude with their recommendations for better design, promotion and evaluation of community-based workforce development networks.

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Taking into account the changing structure of US labor markets and increasing welfare-to-workforce pressures, Harrison (urban political economy, New School for Social Research, New York) and Weiss (Economic Development Assistance Consortium, Boston) advocate and present model innovative public-private partnerships (local, regional, community college-based) to accommodate these socioeconomic shifts. They conclude with their recommendations for better design, promotion, and evaluation for such community-based networks. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.