Workforce intermediaries for the twenty-first century
By: edited by Robert P. Giloth.
Contributors: Giloth, Robert.
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
Subjects: Hard-core unemployed -- Services for -- United States; Hard-core unemployed -- Services for -- United States -- Case studies; Welfare recipients -- Employment -- Government policy -- United States; Occupational training -- Government policy -- United States; Employment agencies -- United States
Genres: Case studies.
Other titles: Workforce intermediaries for the 21st century
Notes: "Published in association with the American Assembly, Columbia University."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gift of anonymous donor.
Table of contents: title: I. INTRODUCTION -- Introduction:; title: A case for workforce intermediaries -- Robert P. Giloth; title: Whose job is it? Creating opportunities for advancement -- Nan Poppe ... [et al.] -- II. WHO ARE WORKFORCE INTERMEDIARIES AND WHAT DO THEY DO?; title: What do workforce intermediaries do? -- Richard Kazis; title: The workforce intermediary: profiling the field of practice and its challenges -- Cindy Marano, -- Kim Tarr; title: Workforce intermediaries: recent experience and implications for workforce development -- Richard McGahey -- III. ECONOMIC AND POLICY RATIONALES FOR WORKFORCE INTERMEDIARIES; title: Labor market intermediaries in the modern labor market -- Paul Osterman; title: The political economy of labor market mediation in the United States -- Anthony P. Carnevale, -- Donna M. Desrochers -- IV. CUSTOMER VOICES; title: Creating and sustaining a coherent voice for employers in workforce development: the Cleveland experience -- Daniel E. Berry; title: Perception vs. reality: employer attitudes and the rebranding of workforce intermediaries -- Jessica K. Laufer, -- Sian Winship; title: How do workers see advancement? -- Roberta Rehner Iversen; title: Labor market intermediaries in the old and new economies: a survey of worker experiences in Milwaukee and Silicon Valley -- Laura Leete ... [et al.] -- V. BUILDING WORKFORCE INTERMEDIARIES; title: Financing workforce intermediaries -- Jerry Rubin ... [et al.]; title: The final act: the challenges of implementing workforce development policy via nonprofit organizations -- William P. Ryan; title: Community development intermediation and its lessons for the workforce field -- Christopher Walker, -- John Foster-Bey -- VI. CONCLUSION -- Conclusion:; title: A future for workforce intermediaries -- Robert P. Giloth -- APPENDIX; title: Final report of the 102nd American Assembly --; title: Steering Committee Workforce Intermediaries Project --; title: About the American Assembly.