Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9781627793285 Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc. Publication date: 04/19/2016 Pages: 272 Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.20(d) 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 trainingAfter 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