Training the Excluded for Work: Access and Equity for Women, Immigrants, First Nations, Youth, and People with Low Income

by Marjorie Griffin Cohen

In recent years job training programs have suffered severe funding cuts and the focus of training programs has shifted to meet the directives of funders rather than the needs of the community. How do these changes to job training affect disadvantaged workers and the unemployed? In an insightful and comprehensive discussion of job education in Canada, Cohen and her contributors pool findings from a five-year collaborative study of training programs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774810076
• ISBN13: 9780774810074
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 288 Pages