Moving Up in the New Economy - Career Ladders for U.s. Workers

Klappentext Career-ladder strategies create opportunities for low-wage workers to learn new skills and advance through a progression of higher-skilled and better-paid jobs. For example, nurses' aides can become licensed practical nurses, administrative assistants can become information technology workers, and bank tellers can become loan officers. Career-ladder programs could provide opportunities for upward mobility and also stave off impending national shortages of skilled workers. But there are a variety of obstacles that must be faced candidly if career-ladder programs are to succeed. In Moving Up in the New Economy, Joan Fitzgerald explores specific programs in different sectors of the economy - health care, child care, education, manufacturing, and biotechnology - to offer a comprehensive analysis of this innovative approach to job training. Addressing the successes achieved - and the problems faced - by career-ladder programs, this timely book will be of interest to anyone interested in career development, workforce training, and employment issues, especially those that affect low-wage workers. Zusammenfassung "The United States used to be a country where ordinary people could expect to improve their economic condition as they moved through life. For millions of us, this is no longer the case. Many Americans today have a lower standard of living as adults...

Product details

• Authors: Joan Fitzgerald
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.01.2006
• EAN: 9780801444135
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-4413-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Century Foundation Book; A Century Foundation Book; Century Foundation Book
• Subjects: Education and learning > Vocational and technical college books; Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries