If I Had a Hammer : Retraining That Really Works.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (192 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Laying the Foundation -- 3 The Everyday Lives of Our Heroes -- 4 From Blueprint to Reality: Challenges at the Job Site -- 5 Measuring Success -- 6 " A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out": Let's Get Serious about Retraining -- Appendices -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
This book is about poor women, many of them single mothers, Aboriginal, or both, who have defied the odds to become apprenticing carpenters.
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Occupational training for women -- Canada. Poor women -- Employment -- Canada.