Catherwood Library

One Stop Centers (for WISP)

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2. Suggested library resources are available through our Research page.
3. Get trained on LEXIS and other ILR Library Resources

4. Pick up the three library books recommended to you - classics dealing with unemployment well worth skimming through during your internship.

   Please Note: There are not enough copies for each student intern. Consequently, these books are going to be on reserve. Each book can be checked out for two weeks. If one checks out a book just before the Winter Break, it will not be due until classes resume. Students must ask for these books by title at the Reserve Desk (Circulation) in the Catherwood Library. They are:

   Slote, Alfred
   Termination; the closing at Baker plant
   Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1969]
   340 p.

   Keyssar, Alexander
   Out of work: the first century of unemployment in Massachusetts
   Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
   469 p.

   Uchitelle, Louis Author/Creator: Uchitelle, Louis.
   The disposable American: layoffs and their consequences
   Published: New York: Knopf, 2006.
   Description: 1st ed.
   283 p.

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ONE STOP CENTERS:
A Selection of Readings and Links (not comprehensive)
By Stuart Basefsky, October 2005

New York: One Stop Locations by County

New York: Workforce Investment Act

Service Delivery Under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998
The Rockefeller Institute of Government
Updated February 2005

WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT (WIA)
WMCP: 108-6, 2004 Green Book
15-WIA-1

Job Training: Characteristics of Workforce Training Participants
Ann Lordeman, Specialist in Social Legislation, Domestic Social Policy Division
Order Code RL30929
Congressional Research Service
April 12, 2001

In the Dark on Job Training: Federal Job-Training Programs Have a Record of Failure
David Muhlhausen, Ph.D., and Paul Kersey
Backgrounder (published by The Heritage Foundation)
No. 1774, July 6, 2004

WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT: Substantial Funds Are Used for Training, but Little Is Known Nationally about Training Outcomes
Report to Congressional Requesters
United States Government Accountability Office (GAO)
June 2005

WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT: Employers Are Aware of, Using, and Satisfied with One-Stop Services, but More Data Could Help Labor Better Address Employers Needs
United States Government Accountability Office (GAO)
February 2005

WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT: Labor Has Taken Several Actions to Facilitate Access to One-Stops for Persons with Disabilities, but These Efforts May Not Be Sufficient
United States Government Accountability Office (GAO)
December 2004

WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT: States and Local Areas Have Developed Strategies to Assess Performance, but Labor Could Do More to Help
Report to Congressional Requesters
United States General Accounting Office (GAO)
June 2004

WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT: One-Stop Centers Implemented Strategies to Strengthen Services and Partnerships, but More Research and Information Sharing is Needed
United States General Accounting Office
Report to Congressional Requesters
June 2003

Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA): Reauthorization of Title I Job Training Programs
Ann Lordeman, Specialist in Social Legislation, Domestic Social Policy Division
Order Code RS21484
Updated May 27, 2003

Serving People with Disabilities through the Workforce Investment
Acts One-Stop Career Centers
Prepared by: The Urban Institute, Pamela Holcomb, Johns Hopkins University, Burt S. Barnow
November 4, 2004

Workforce Investment Act: Employers Found One-Stop Centers Useful
in Hiring Low-Skilled Workers; Performance Information Could Help Gauge Employer Involvement. GAO-07-167, December 22, 2006.

Center for Law and Social Policy
Workforce Development and Transitional Jobs