Workforce Education
A New Roadmap
MIT Press · Print & ebook · February 2, 2021
A roadmap for how we can rebuild America's working class by transforming workforce education and training.
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- Who it’s for
- William Bonvillian and Sanjay Sarma examine how workforce education might rebuild working-class opportunity.
- Themes
- Workforce education, Working-class mobility, Skills gaps and inequality
- Genres
- Education Policy, Labor & Workforce, Labor & Industrial Relations
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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.
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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.
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William Bonvillian and Sanjay Sarma examine how workforce education might rebuild working-class opportunity.
Come here for
- A roadmap for transforming workforce education and training
- Methods being developed across the country to train workers more quickly
Expect
- Discussion of technological advances and access to quality jobs
- Innovative workforce education methods under development
Where it sits
| Education Policy | 47% |
|---|---|
| Labor & Workforce | 33% |
| Labor & Industrial Relations | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Labor & Workforce
- Manufacturing Industry
- Labor & Industrial Relations
- Authors
- William B. Bonvillian, Sanjay E. Sarma
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Published
- February 2, 2021
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Workforce education · Working-class mobility · Skills gaps and inequality
- Reading lane
- Labor & Workforce