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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Skilled Trades"”.
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Post-Secondary Education Influence: College VS. Skilled Trades
… directed at a particular field and its skills. A skilled trade is any occupation that requires a specific skill set, knowledge, or ability. It is usually a hands-on job, but skilled trades are found in every career cluster. Vocational education helps create future professionals who need education …
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Vital Traditions: Assessing the Status of Skilled Trades Work in Toronto’s Heritage Policy
… by difficulties contracting appropriately skilled workers to carry out that maintenance. This phenomenon is general, but it is produced by local market conditions and demands locally directed study. In Toronto, the regulatory organization of the heritage sector creates an environment where …
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College-for-all meets skills gap: Millennials’ decisions to pursue certificates in skilled trades
… of a group of students enrolled in traditional skilled trade certificate programs at a large Midwestern community college. Considering severe shortage of skilled labor in the geographic area of the college, there is great need for better understanding of ways to alleviate the labor shortage by …
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Beyond recruitment--lessons from the workplace about retention of women in the skilled trades
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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Beyond the Glass Ceiling: How women attain tenure and career progression in stigmatized careers
The number of employees within the skilled trades in Canada is decreasing, partly due to the retirement of the aging workforce and decreasing incoming employees in the trades. There is also a stigma surrounding the skilled trades, which may cause these careers to be perceived as less attractive for …
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Learning Through Engaging in Women in Trades Introductory Programs
… examines what 13 participants in a women in trades introductory program (WiTIP) learned through their engagement in the program, and how they related that learning to their prior learning experiences. Analysis of participants’ descriptions of their WiTIP experiences, collected via …
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Musculoskeletal Injury amongst Illinois Hospital Workers: Incidence, Severity and Staffing, 2018-2023
… assistive personnel and service, maintenance, skilled trades, and security workers experienced the highest injury incidence across all regions. Injury rates were significantly higher in Chicago and Suburban Cook County than in other parts of Illinois. Among injured workers, Registered Nurses …
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Immigration and Construction: An Analysis of the Impact of Immigration on Construction Project Costs
… region, the construction workforces for low-skilled trades such as concrete, masonry, drywall, painting, flooring, and roofing are comprised of approximately 55% illegal immigrant. Based on four factors evaluated in this research: 1) prevailing wage provision in legislation, 2) forced tax …
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The occupational mobility of black workers in the Witwatersrand building industry from 1960 with some reference to the occupational mobility of the Coloured people in the western Cape building industry
… which Black workers have been admitted to the skilled trades. In this regard it may be mentioned that the official policy objective of narrowing the wage gap is apparently to be achieved by the more productive utilisation of Black labour. In July 1973 the Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister …
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Mechanical building services craft training in Great Britain, France and Germany: Towards a more efficient model for industry
… out with the same fundamental aim: to produce skilled trades people in sufficient numbers for the mechanical building services industry in each country. The vocational education and training (VET) systems in each European state however, have developed from differing ideologies and philosophies, …
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A Study of Changes in Vocational Interest Inventory Patterns and Scores After Two Years for Male College Students Initially Having No Primary Interest Patterns
… families of Physical Science and Technical and Skilled Trades. Most of the primary patterns manifested by students in the College of Business and Public Administration were in the occupational families of Sales and Business and Accounting. Of a total of 72 primary patterns, 37 were in the …