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How does the current labour market training system function and whose interests does it serve? In this introductory textbook, Bob Barnetson wades into the debate between workers and employers, and governments and economists to investigate the ways in which labour power is produced and reproduced in Canadian society. After sifting through the facts and interpretations of social scientists and government policymakers, Barnetson interrogates the training system through analysis of the political and economic forces that constitute modern Canada. This book not only provides students of Canada’s division of labour with a general introduction to the main facets of labour-market training—including skills development, post-secondary and community education, and workplace training—but also encourages students to think critically about the relationship between training systems and the ideologies that support them.

Labor market --- Skilled labor --- Labor --- Occupational training --- Manpower policy --- E-books --- apprenticeship, labour shortage, skill shortage, jobs, unemployment, skilled workers.

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Maxwell presents the results of her groundbreaking survey of 405 employers, which queried them about jobs requiring no more than a high school education and no more than one year of work experience. These data allow her to establish the link between skills and low-skilled jobs and to reveal the current state of the labor market facing low-skilled workers. The data also highlights the knowledge and skills that employers require in low-skilled jobs and the abilities that individuals who apply for those jobs bring to the table.

Labor market. --- Unskilled labor. --- Laborers --- Low-skilled labor --- Low-skilled workers --- Labor --- Employees --- Market, Labor --- Supply and demand for labor --- Markets --- Supply and demand

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A shortage of skilled workers is currently emerging in many countries. Yet public discourse and much research literature convey the impression that manual labor is somehow outmoded, requiring competencies that are no longer necessary in today’s «post-industrial, information-based society». The question of how to achieve the right balance between different types of work in a society is one that transcends national borders.

Manual work. --- Labor market. --- Men --- Educational attainment. --- shortage of skilled workers --- manual occupations --- education --- work --- Apprenticeship --- Entrepreneurship --- Housekeeping --- Labour economics --- Norway --- Petroleum industry --- Plumber --- Social mobility --- Tertiary education --- Employment. --- shortage of skilled workers --- manual occupations --- education --- work --- Apprenticeship --- Entrepreneurship --- Housekeeping --- Labour economics --- Norway --- Petroleum industry --- Plumber --- Social mobility --- Tertiary education

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Fleeting Agencies disrupts the male-dominated narratives by focusing on gendered patterns of migration and showing how South Asian women labour migrants engaged with the process of migration, interacted with other migrants and negotiated colonial laws. This is the first study of Indian coolie women in British Malaya to date. In exploring the politicization of labour migration trends and gender relations in the colonial plantation society in British Malaya, the author foregrounds how the migrant Indian 'coolie' women manipulated colonial legal and administrative perceptions of Indian women; their gender-prescriptive roles, relations within patriarchal marriage institutions, and even the emerging Indian national independence movement in India and Malaya. All this, to ensure their survival, escape from unfavourable relations and situations, and improve their lives. The book also introduces the concept of situational or fleeting agency, which contributes to further a nuanced understanding of agency in the lives of Indian coolie women.

Indigenous women --- Unskilled labor --- Laborers --- Low-skilled labor --- Low-skilled workers --- Labor --- Aboriginal women --- Native women --- Women --- Social conditions --- History. --- Indentured servants --- Indian women --- Social conditions. --- Women, Indian --- Servants, Indentured --- Contract labor --- Slave labor

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A shortage of skilled workers is currently emerging in many countries. Yet public discourse and much research literature convey the impression that manual labor is somehow outmoded, requiring competencies that are no longer necessary in today’s «post-industrial, information-based society». The question of how to achieve the right balance between different types of work in a society is one that transcends national borders.

Manual work. --- Labor market. --- Men --- Educational attainment. --- Employment. --- shortage of skilled workers --- manual occupations --- education --- work --- Apprenticeship --- Entrepreneurship --- Housekeeping --- Labour economics --- Norway --- Petroleum industry --- Plumber --- Social mobility --- Tertiary education