Marjorie Griffin Cohen is a member of the Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University.

Marjorie Griffin Cohen is a member of the Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University.

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Introduction

1. Who Wins, Who Loses: The Real Story of the Transfer of Training to the Provinces and Its Impact on Women / Ursule Critoph
2. Snakes and Ladders: Coherence in Training for Office Workers / Alice de Wolff and Maureen Hynes
3. The Road to Equity: Training Women and First Nations on the Vancouver Island Highway / Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Kate Braid
4. Women's Training and Equity on the Hibernia Construction Project / Sue Hart and Mark Shrimpton
5. The Culture of Construction: Or, Etiquette for the Nontraditional / Kate Braid
6. Hammering Their Way through the Barriers: Low-Income Women Retrain to Be Carpenters / Margaret Little
7. Training and Retraining Health Workers amid Health Care Restructuring, Downsizing, and Rationalization: The Case of Health Care Aides / Larry Haiven and Liz Quinlan
8. Community Skills Training by and for Immigrant Women / Margaret Manery and Marjorie Griffin Cohen
9. Life Skills Training: "Open for Discussion" / Shauna Butterwick
10. Pathways to Employment for Women: Apprenticeship or College Training? / Robert Sweet
11. Public Policy and Women's Access to Training in New Brunswick / Joan McFarland
12. Still Shopping for Training: Women, Training, and Livelihoods / Karen Lior and Susan Wismer
13. Youth Employment Programs in British Columbia: Taking the High Road or the Low Road? / Linda Wong and Stephen McBride
14. Training Youth at Risk: A Model Program in Quebec / Sylvain Bourdon and Frédéric Deschenaux

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