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Armstrong, Anne – Adults Learning (England), 1996
A West London course for unemployed adults over 40 provided a supportive environment in which to prepare for and find work. Twelve trainees participated in the course and postcourse support meetings; five found work and five pursued further training. (SK)
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Foreign Countries, Job Search Methods, Job Skills
Avedon, Lisa – 1991
Counselors whose clients are workers displaced in plant closures and downsizings face a number of unique issues because they do not have a conceptual model on which to base their interventions. The types of work force attachment individuals have affects the issues with which they are coping. Four different kinds of work force attachments are…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Client Relationship, Dislocated Workers
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Presdee, Mike – Society, 1982
Educational and occupational training programs initiated in times of high unemployment are actually designed to maintain social control of the unemployed. Current efforts by the Australian government to educate young, unemployed school leavers wrongfully shift the blame for unemployment away from the economy and onto the work force itself.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Capitalism, Dropouts, Economic Factors