Workforce education

Workforce education: a new roadmap

by Bonvillian, William

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A roadmap for how we can rebuild America's working class by transforming workforce education and training. The American dream promised that if you worked hard, you could move up, with well-paying working-class jobs providing a gateway to an ever-growing middle class. Today, however, we have increasing inequality, not economic convergence. Technological advances are putting quality jobs out of reach for workers who lack the proper skills and training. In Workforce Education, William Bonvillian a…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Workforce education : a new roadmap / William B. Bonvillian and Sanjay E. Sarma.

Summary

A roadmap for how we can rebuild America's working class by transforming workforce education and training. The American dream promised that if you worked hard, you could move up, with well-paying working-class jobs providing a gateway to an ever-growing middle class. Today, however, we have increasing inequality, not economic convergence. Technological advances are putting quality jobs out of reach for workers who lack the proper skills and training. In Workforce Education, William Bonvillian and Sanjay Sarma offer a roadmap for rebuilding America's working class. They argue that we need to train more workers more quickly, and they describe innovative methods of workforce education that are being developed across the country. -- Provided by publisher.

"Offers a roadmap that will address the gap between the current workforce and the new jobs requiring significant upskilling, with a focus on the sectors of manufacturing, retail, and healthcare"--

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2021

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):The MIT Press
  • Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2021

The Physical Object

  • Description:xi, 349 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780262044882, 0262044889
  • oclc:on1151491227
  • LC Classification:HD8072.5
  • Dewey Decimal:374/.0130973

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Authors' Note -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The American Working Class: Economic Decline and Growing Inequality -- Breakdowns in Today's Workforce Education -- Technology versus Jobs -- The Three Sectors: Manufacturing, Healthcare, and Retail -- The Broken Labor Market Information System -- The University Role in Workforce Education -- The New Educational Technologies -- The Educational Content -- The Apprenticeship Model -- The New Content-Delivery Models -- A Roadmap to New Workforce Systems -- Notes -- Index

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Subjects

Employees -- Training of -- United Stat… Employees ; Training of Innovations -- Aspect économique -- Éta… LABOR MARKET Labor market -- United States Marché du travail -- États-Unis Personnel -- Formation -- États-Unis Technological innovations -- Economic a… Technological innovations -- Economic a… Travailleurs -- États-Unis United States Working class Working class -- United States

Writers

Bonvillian, William Sarma, Sanjay E.

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