All I Want Is a Job!: Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System

by Mary Gatta

Book Overview

In All I Want Is a Job , Mary Gatta puts a human face on workforce development policy. An ethnographic sociologist, Gatta went undercover, posing as a client in a New Jersey One-Stop Career Center. One-Stop Centers, developed as part of the federal Workforce Investment Act, are supposed to be an unemployed worker's go-to resource on the way to re-employment. But, how well do these centers function? With swarms of new clients coming through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804790825
• ISBN13: 9780804790826
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Stanford Economics and Finance
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.4"