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Download full textWegmann, Robert G. – 1983
This paper is intended to help those in a position to provide workers who are displaced by layoffs or plant shutdowns with assistance in adjusting to unemployment and finding new employment. The first section presents a summary of the transformation of the American labor market, showing the effects of economic and technological changes on the…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Coping, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
Edling, Walter – 1991
This document is a series of transparency masters divided into four sections on three types of transformation programs: technical literacy training, retraining for technology, and tech prep programs. The first section includes the following: transformations development; retraining workers for technology; elements of transformations program; Lorain…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, Curriculum Design
Kolberg, William H., Ed. – 1983
This book examines the causes of worker displacement in the United States in the context of national economic change. It discusses the promising, through scattered, efforts already underway to help dislocated workers and outlines more far-reaching steps that can be taken with assistance of the federal Job Training Partnership Act of 1982. The book…
Descriptors: Adults, Demonstration Programs, Dislocated Workers, Economic Change
Stone, Judson; And Others – 1984
Based on a program provided by a consortium of mental health centers in the Detroit, Michigan, area, this manual is intended to assist in the development and delivery of programs that allay or prevent the devastating human impact of plant shutdowns and large-scale layoffs. The guide focuses on delivery of programs that promote more effective use…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Change, Community Resources, Dislocated Workers
Sommers, Dixie; Austin, James – 2002
A project used the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) to assist eligible dislocated workers in determining whether training offered by the Toledo Dislocated Worker Consortium fit their needs. More specifically, O*NET was used to help the dislocated workers understand whether they had knowledge and skills that were transferable into the…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Change, Career Information Systems, Dislocated Workers
Henry, Ann; Teschendorf, JoAnn – 1984
The Older Worker Project was conducted to provide employment services to unemployed persons aged 45 and older who live in the western part of the Hennepin County (Minneapolis, Minnesota) area. Although the expected result was permanent employment of the participants, the intention of this demonstration project was to refine service approaches…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Attitude Change, Career Change, Career Counseling
