Reskilling America : learning to labor in the twenty-first century / Katherine S. Newman, Hella Winston.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781627793285
- ISBN: 1627793283
- Physical Description: 257 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-240) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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? |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Vocational education > United States. Skilled labor > United States. Occupational training > United States. Manpower policy > United States. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | LC 1045 .N49 2016 | 30775305511983 | General Collection | Available | - |
Author Notes
Reskilling America : Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century
Katherine S. Newman is the author of a dozen books on topics ranging from urban poverty to middle class economic insecurity to school violence. No Shame in My Game: the Working Poor in the Inner City received the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Prize and the Sidney Hillman Foundation Book Award. Newman, who has held positions at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and Princeton, is currently provost and professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Hella Winston is a sociologist and investigative journalist. She has held postdoctoral fellowships in sociology at Princeton and Johns Hopkins universities and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. She is the author of Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels (Beacon Press, 2005). She lives in New York City.