Download or read book Literacy and the Unemployed written by Stephen Black and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between literacy and unemployment was examined through two research activities: a review of changing patterns of unemployment, changing directions in adult literacy and basic education in Australia, and literacy programs for unemployed people and interviews with a sample of 27 Commonwealth Employment Service (CES) clients who had been referred by the local CES office to a technical and further education (TAFE) college in the metropolitan west of Sydney. Of the 27 interviewees, 16 (60%) were happy to have been referred to TAFE literacy programs. Nearly all those who welcomed referral to TAFE were from non-English-speaking backgrounds, and only three were Australian born. Interviewees' age and work aspirations and prospects also affected their attitudes toward enrolling in TAFE. Even those who were reluctant to enroll in TAFE generally believed that enrolling in TAFE would be in their best interests. Most interviewees attributed their unemployment to their low literacy skills rather than to the recession. Policymakers were advised to bear in mind that, although literacy is vitally important for many jobs, low English literacy skills do not automatically render people unemployable or nonfunctioning members of society. (Appended is an interim literacy course matrix. Contains 154 references.) (MN)
Download or read book Workplace Literacy and the Nation s Unemployed Workers written by Mamoru Ishikawa and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pathways to Work Unemployment Among Black Teenage Females written by Phyllis Ann Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies Central Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Download or read book Literacy in the Labor Force written by Andrew Sum and published by Department of Education. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using data from the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey, focuses on the literacy skills of the nation's total civilian labour force.
Download or read book Literacy Numeracy and Activation Among the Unemployed written by Elish Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of Learning on Unemployed Low qualified Adults written by Sally Dench and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Findings from Education and the Economy written by Paul T. Decker and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literacy Employment and Social Security written by A. S. Seetharamu and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Labor Press Service written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Employment Training and Literacy Enhancement Act of 1997 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Literacy Syllabus for Long term Unemployed Migrants written by Joyce Helen Murray and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conference Papers Partners in Education Demonstration Programme on Educational Disadvantage 11 12 November 1999 written by and published by Combat Poverty Agency. This book was released on with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literacy Socialisation and Employment written by Catherine Stercq and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The link between literacy and employment is often assumed and social and vocational integration rarely takes into account the problem faced by people who are illiterate. Examples from a 20 year study into the causes of illiteracy and its effect on people's lives is used by the author to examine what effect there will be on the social and economic development of a region if a significant part of its potential labour force is ignored because it is illiterate. As well as the economic consequences of such actions, the social impact is highlighted and possible ways of breaking the spiral, through education and economic investment, are suggested.
Download or read book Laboring to Learn written by Lorna Rivera and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American adult education system has become an alternative for school dropouts, with some state welfare policies requiring teen mothers and women without high school diplomas to participate in adult education programs to receive aid. Currently, low-income women of color are more likely to be enrolled in the lowest levels of adult basic education. Very little has been published about women's experiences in these mandatory programs and whether the programs reproduce the conditions that forced women to drop out in the first place. Lorna Rivera bridges the gap with this important study, the product of ten years' active ethnographic research with formerly homeless women who participated in adult literacy education classes before and after welfare reform. She draws on rich interviews with organizers and participants in the Adult Learners Program at Project Hope, a women's shelter and community development organization in Boston's Dudley neighborhood, one of the poorest in the city. Analyzing the web of ideological contradictions regarding "work first" welfare reform policies, Rivera argues that poverty is produced and reproduced when women with low literacy skills are pushed into welfare-to-work programs and denied education. She examines how various discourses about individual choice and self-sufficiency shape the purposes of literacy, how low-income women express a sense of personal responsibility for being poor, and how neoliberal ideologies and practices compromise the goals of critical literacy programs. Throughout this study, the voices and experiences of formerly homeless women challenge cultural stereotypes about poor women, showing in personal and structural terms how social and economic forces shape and restrict opportunities for low-income women of color.
Download or read book Use It Or Lose It written by John Bynner and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British study examined whether people's literacy and numeracy skills get worse if they are out of paid employment. It was based on a sample of adults aged 37, who are part of the major cohort study, the National Child Development Study. Only those persons who left school at age 16 were included. Some of the findings were as follows: (1) when men were out of work, their numeracy skills got steadily worse, with those who had poor skills to start with seeing their skills decline sooner and more; (2) time out of paid employment was also linked to a decline in numeracy skills in women, but to a lesser degree; (3) reading skills were more resilient for both men and women--unemployed women had a small decline in skills whereas men's skills declined only if they had poor skills to start with; (4) other influences, such as socioeconomic status, had great influence on whether skills declined during unemployment, but at least small skill losses were suffered at all levels. The study concluded that since reading is used all the time, being out of work has less impact. In addition, since some numeracy skills are used in work but not in everyday life, they are more likely to be lost when people are out of work. Finally, those who had a reached a skills threshold were less likely to lose their skills and training in work appeared to protect against skills loss. The findings underline the importance of opportunities for unemployed people to improve their basic skills. (KC)
Download or read book Men Without Work written by Nicholas Eberstadt and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By one reading, things look pretty good for Americans today: the country is richer than ever before and the unemployment rate is down by half since the Great Recession—lower today, in fact, than for most of the postwar era. But a closer look shows that something is going seriously wrong. This is the collapse of work—most especially among America’s men. Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist who holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, shows that while “unemployment” has gone down, America’s work rate is also lower today than a generation ago—and that the work rate for US men has been spiraling downward for half a century. Astonishingly, the work rate for American males aged twenty-five to fifty-four—or “men of prime working age”—was actually slightly lower in 2015 than it had been in 1940: before the War, and at the tail end of the Great Depression. Today, nearly one in six prime working age men has no paid work at all—and nearly one in eight is out of the labor force entirely, neither working nor even looking for work. This new normal of “men without work,” argues Eberstadt, is “America’s invisible crisis.” So who are these men? How did they get there? What are they doing with their time? And what are the implications of this exit from work for American society? Nicholas Eberstadt lays out the issue and Jared Bernstein from the left and Henry Olsen from the right offer their responses to this national crisis. For more information, please visit http://menwithoutwork.com.
Download or read book Who s Not Working and Why written by Frederic L. Pryor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a radically different view of the operations of the labor market, in this 1999 book Professors Pryor and Schaffer explain the growing inequality in wages and how those with the least education are being squeezed out of the labor market. Why have wages in those jobs requiring extra-high cognitive skills risen while all other wages have stagnated or fallen? And why are more university graduates taking high-school jobs? The authors of this volume present data revealing that jobs which require a high educational level are increasing more slowly than those with somewhat lower requirements. However such jobs are increasing faster than those requiring still less formal education. Professors Pryor and Schaffer also show how women are replacing men in jobs which require higher levels of education and, moreover, how those with high cognitive skills are replacing those with lower cognitive skills.
