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Working in the Middle: Strengthening Education and Training for the Mid-Skilled Labor Force
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Anyone interested in a better trained workforce should read this book. Well-paying jobs requiring less than a college degree are a growing sector of the economy that is often ignored. Grubb’s book shows how community colleges can improve the chances of securing those jobs.
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Working in the Middle: Strengthening Education and Training for the Mid-Skilled Labor Force
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Steal This University: The Rise of the Corporate University and the Academic Labor Movement
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Steal This University explores the paradox of academic labor. Universities do not exist to generate a profit from capital investment, yet contemporary universities are increasingly using corporations as their model for internal organization. While the media, politicians, business leaders and the general public all seem to share a remarkable consensus that higher education is indispensable to the future of nations and individuals alike, within academia bitter conf… More >>
Steal This University: The Rise of the Corporate University and the Academic Labor Movement
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Adolescence and Work: Influences of Social Structure, Labor Markets, and Culture
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This volume illustrates connections between the concerns of vocational psychology and the adjoining disciplines of sociology, cultural anthropology, and labor economics. The intent is to suggest how vocational psychology and career counseling might recognize more explicitly the ever-changing social influences and institutional constraints that affect individual as they begin,or contemplate beginning, their adult work.
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Adolescence and Work: Influences of Social Structure, Labor Markets, and Culture
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