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- catalog abstract ""How did working people find jobs in the past? How has the process changed over time for various groups of job seekers? Are outcomes influenced more by general economic circumstances, by discriminatory practices in the labor market, or by personal initiative and competence?" "Walter Licht uses intensive primary-source research on a major industrial city for a period of over one hundred years to tackle these questions. He looks at when and how young people secured first jobs, the influence of agencies on the hiring process, schools and work, apprenticeship programs, unions, the role of firms in structuring work opportunities, the state as employer and as shaper of employment conditions, and the problem of losing work--the job search as a seemingly perpetual activity." "Licht's findings enliven and sometimes revise specific scholarly and social policy debates. School programs, for example, are shown to have been unsystematic because of various social clashes; working-class children had only loose ties to schools. Men and women, blacks and whites, older-stock Americans and newcomers had disparate labor market experiences. Experience in the labor market varied not only by group and across time, but also during different stages of the individual's life." "Getting Work is important reading for policymakers, social historians, economists, and students of management and industrial relations."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b3700041.
- catalog contributor b3700042.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description ""How did working people find jobs in the past? How has the process changed over time for various groups of job seekers? Are outcomes influenced more by general economic circumstances, by discriminatory practices in the labor market, or by personal initiative and competence?" "Walter Licht uses intensive primary-source research on a major industrial city for a period of over one hundred years to tackle these questions. He looks at when and how young people secured first jobs, the influence of agencies on the hiring process, schools and work, apprenticeship programs, unions, the role of firms in structuring work opportunities, the state as employer and as shaper of employment conditions, and the problem of losing work--the job search as a seemingly perpetual activity." "Licht's findings enliven and sometimes revise specific scholarly and social policy debates. School programs, for example, are shown to have been unsystematic because of various social clashes; working-class children had only loose ties to schools. Men and women, blacks and whites, older-stock Americans and newcomers had disparate labor market experiences. Experience in the labor market varied not only by group and across time, but also during different stages of the individual's life." "Getting Work is important reading for policymakers, social historians, economists, and students of management and industrial relations."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 317 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Getting work.".
- catalog identifier "0674354281".
- catalog isFormatOf "Getting work.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Getting work.".
- catalog spatial "Pennsylvania Philadelphia".
- catalog spatial "Pennsylvania Turkey Alaşehir".
- catalog subject "331.12/09748/11 20".
- catalog subject "HD5726.P5 L53 1992".
- catalog subject "Labor market Pennsylvania Philadelphia History.".
- catalog subject "Labor market Pennsylvania Turkey Alaşehir History.".
- catalog subject "Working class Pennsylvania Philadelphia History.".
- catalog title "Getting work : Philadelphia, 1840-1950 / Walter Licht.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".