Michael wrote (see below):
Chase Manhattan Bank had a program for hiring 'disadvantaged' workers, but
found they were ill-educated. It instituted a 6 week course in basics for
the new employees.
During the 6 weeks, students, on average, improved by two full grades.
Draw your own conclusions.
Harry
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>Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:21:06 +0000
>From: Robert Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Moral Meaning of Work: Part 2
>
>Wilson belongs neither to the left nor to the right's tradition of
>romanticizing a world beyond necessity. For him, the disappearance of
>work is not an opportunity but a tragedy. Yet Wilson parts company
>with those conservatives who insist on work to teach lessons of
>unfreedom. Conservatives see in such an agenda the necessary
>correctives to what they take to be immoral conduct, whereas for
>Wilson the "disciplines and regularities" of work provide an
>opportunity for deprived people to become autonomous agents in
>charge of their own lives.
>
>In his effort to find out why so many jobs have disappeared from
>inner-city neighborhoods, Wilson and his associates interviewed
>employers representing 179 Chicago-area firms seeking workers for
>entry-level, low-wage jobs. One of the reasons the firms said they
>were reluctant to hire people from the ghetto was the lack of
>language and mathematical skill required even for the most basic of
>jobs. There may well have been racist elements in their reasoning,
>although Wilson reports no differences on this point between black
>and white employers. At the same time, these employers were taking
>note of an unexpected consequence of the digitalization of the
>American economy: Jobs are not so much rendered mindless but rather
>require the application of cognitive capacity. Some jobs in America
>may have been de-skilled, but most of them remain too skilled for
>badly educated inner-city black males without sufficient work
>experience.
>Robert Campbell
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Harry
