The Job Training Charade
- ISBN-10
- 0801439647
- ISBN-13
- 9780801439643
- Category
- Occupational training
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Author
- Gordon Lafer
Description
A comprehensive critique showing that training has been a near-total failure. Examines the economic assumptions and track record of training policy, and provides a political analysis of why job training has remained so popular despite widespread evidence of its failure. [book jacket].
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