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Reskilling America : learning to labor in the twenty-first century /

"From Katherine Newman, award-winning author of No Shame in My Game, and sociologist Hella Winston, a sharp and irrefutable call to reenergize this nation's long-neglected system of vocational training. After decades of off-shoring and downsizing that have left blue collar workers obsolete...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Newman, Katherine S., 1953- (Author), Winston, Hella (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Vocational education > United States.
Skilled labor > United States.
Occupational training > United States.
Manpower policy > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Manpower policy.
Occupational training.
Skilled labor.
Vocational education.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The limits of the "college solution"
  • A history of ambivalence
  • The new vocational turn in American high schools
  • What industry needs
  • The community college connection
  • What vocational education could be: the German model
  • The math puzzle
  • Bringing the dual system to the United States
  • Where do we go from here?
  • Appendix: What's growing?