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020			_a9781627793285 (hardback)
020			_z9781627793292 (electronic book)
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050	0	0	_aLC1045 _b.N49 2016
082	0	0	_a370.1130973 _223
084			_aSOC026000 _aPOL013000 _2bisacsh
100	1		_aNewman, Katherine S., _d1953-
245	1	0	_aReskilling America : _blearning to labor in the twenty-first century / _cKatherine S. Newman, Hella Winston.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bMetropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, _c2016.
264		4	_c©2016
300			_a257 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 217-240) and index.
520			_a"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 and stranded, the United States is now on the verge of an industrial renaissance. But we don't have a skilled enough labor pool to fill the positions that will be created, which are in many cases technically demanding and require specialized skills. A decades-long series of idealistic educational policies with the expressed goal of getting every student to go to college has left a generation of potential workers out of the system. Touted as a progressive, egalitarian institution providing opportunity even to those with the greatest need, the American secondary school system has in fact deepened existing inequalities. We can do better, argue acclaimed sociologists Katherine Newman and Hella Winston. Taking a page from the successful experience of countries like Germany and Austria, where youth unemployment is a mere 7%, they call for a radical reevaluation of the idea of vocational training, long discredited as an instrument of tracking. The United States can prepare a new, high-performance labor force if we revamp our school system to value industry apprenticeship and rigorous technical education. By doing so, we will not only be able to meet the growing demand for skilled employees in dozens of sectors where employers decry the absence of well trained workers -- we will make the American Dream accessible to all"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aVocational education _zUnited States.
650		0	_aSkilled labor _zUnited States.
650		0	_aOccupational training _zUnited States.
650		0	_aManpower policy _zUnited States.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations. _2bisacsh
700	1		_aWinston, Hella,
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