Not Just Getting By The New Era of Flexible

Not Just Getting By chronicles groundbreaking thinking and research on new and innovative workforce development initiatives to create flexible and collaborative programs and policies. Author Mary Gatta builds on extensive interviews and focus groups with 128 women enrolled in a U.S. Department of Labor pilot program in New Jersey focusing on how they attain education through online courses while working, raising their children, and dealing with the many demands on their lives.

Acknowledgements	ix
Preface	xiii
1 A Brief Introduction to Workforce Development Systems	1	(18)
2 The New Workforce Challenge: Finding the Skills to Move Up and Out of Poverty	19	(20)
3 Workforce Development and Welfare Policy: Explored through an Intersectional Lens	39	(22)
4 Policy and Programs: Single Working Poor Mothers and Online Learning	61	(24)
5 Rethinking Workforce Development: Reflections of a State Commissioner of Labor	85	(20)
6 Concluding Remarks: Developing an Agenda for Workforce Development and Low-Wage Workers	105	(14)
Bibliography	119	(8)
Index	127	(4)
About the Authors	131

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Not Just Getting By The New Era of Flexible Workforce Development

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