All I Want Is a Job! : Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System

In All I Want Is a Job!, Mary Gatta puts a human face on workforce development policy. An ethnographic sociologist, Gatta went undercover, posing as a client in a New Jersey One-Stop Career Center. One-Stop Centers, developed as part of the federal Workforce Investment Act, are supposed to be an unemployed worker's go-to resource on the way to re-employment. But, how well do these centers function? With swarms of new clients coming through their doors, are they fit for the task of pairing America's workforce with new jobs?Weaving together her own account with interviews of jobless women and ca

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Gatta, Mary
Publisher:	Palo Alto : Stanford University Press
Subject:	Arbeitslosigkeit \| Unemployment \| Weibliche Arbeitskräfte \| Women workers \| Arbeitsmarktpolitik \| Labour market policy

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (215 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Cover; Copyright; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Navigating the Workforce System; 2. On the Front Line During a Recession; 3. Understanding the Backstory of Workforce and Welfare Policy; 4. Charting a Course Forward; Notes; Index
ISBN:	978-0-8047-8133-6 ; 978-0-8047-9085-7 ; 978-0-8047-8133-6
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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