{"product_id":"putting-skill-to-work-isbn-9780262547918","title":"Putting Skill to Work","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn argument for reimagining skill in a way that can extend economic opportunity to workers at the bottom of the labor market.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe United States has a jobs problem—not enough well-paying jobs to go around and not enough clear pathways leading to them. Skill development is critical for addressing this employment crisis, but there are many unresolved questions about who has skill, how it is attained, and whose responsibility it is to build skills over time. In this book, Nichola Lowe tells the stories of pioneering workforce intermediaries—nonprofits, unions, community colleges—that harness this ambiguity around skill to extend economic opportunity to workers at the bottom of the labor market.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSkill development confers shared value to both workers and employers because it lies at the intersection of their respective interests. Connecting skill to economic inequality, Lowe calls for solutions that push employers to accept greater responsibility for skill development. She examines real-world examples of workplace intermediaries throughout the United States, exploring in detail the work of manufacturing-focused organizations in Chicago and Milwaukee, and a network of community colleges in North Carolina that coordinates training for biopharmaceutical manufacturers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs workforce intermediaries help employers reinterpret skill, they also convince them to implement inclusive work-based systems that extend family-sustaining wages and better working conditions across the entire workforce. With renewed policy emphasis on skill development, these opportunity-rich solutions can be further expanded—ensuring workers across the entire educational spectrum contribute skills that drive innovation forward and share the gains they generate for the twenty-first century workplace.Acknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e1 Our Skill Problem Today 1\u003cbr\u003e2 (Re)Placing Skill in the Workplace 25\u003cbr\u003e3 Mediating Skill 49\u003cbr\u003e4 Skilling the Next Generation 79\u003cbr\u003e5 Reinterpretation Writ Large 107\u003cbr\u003e6 An Inclusive Innovation Future? 135\u003cbr\u003eNotes 155\u003cbr\u003eIndex 177Nichola Lowe is Professor in City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887136633061,"sku":"NP9780262547918","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262547918.jpg?v=1767735244","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/putting-skill-to-work-isbn-9780262547918","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}