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Job training has long been promoted as a central policy response to poverty and unemployment. Both Democrats and Republicans have trumpeted training as the answer to everything from welfare to NAFTA. The Job Training Charade provides a comprehensive critique showing that training has been a near-total failure. Even more dramatically, the book shows how politicians have ignored repeated reports of the program's failure, and have kept funding a policy they know cannot work. Gordon Lafer first examines the economic assumptions and track record of training policy. He goes on to provide a political analysis of why job training has remained so popular despite widespread evidence of its economic failure. The author concludes that job training functions less as an economic prescription aimed at solving poverty than as a political strategy aimed at managing the popular response to economic distress. The Job Training Charade is a landmark book showing how a bipartisan consensus may coalesce behind a phantom policy that serves political needs while ignoring economic realities. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning -No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
About the Author
Gordon Lafer is Associate Professor at the University of Oregon's Labor Education and Research Center.
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- Contributor: Gordon Lafer
- Imprint: Cornell University Press
- ISBN13: 9780801489518
- Number of Pages: 320
- Packaged Dimensions: 140x219x21mm
- Packaged Weight: 907
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- Release Date: 2004-07-07
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Gordon Lafer is Associate Professor at the University of Oregon's Labor Education and Research Center.
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