Download or read book Private Sector On-the-job Training for Disadvantaged Workers written by Morris Aaron Horowitz and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Early in 1979 the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and a number of employer representatives of the women and children apparel industry jointly established the Apparel Job Training and Research Corporation (AJTRC) to further job training and research in the industry. The AJTRC received a contract from the Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor, to develop an industry-wide, private sector, on-the-job training program which would address issues basic to the survival and revival of a declining industry, as well as to train and employ economically disadvantaged persons. From October 1979 through March 1981 the AJTRC promoted and administered an on-the-job training program which involved over 100 firms in 17 states, and enrolled over 2,500 participants, a large majority of whom were disadvantaged workers. The purpose of this report is to describe the AJTRC training program and to assess the effectiveness of an industry-wide, private sector, on-the-job training approach in increasing the earnings and workforce attachments of these workers completing the special training program. A secondary purpose of measuring the effectiveness of specific training approaches or programs against trainee characteristics was not attainable because the basic approach by almost all participating firms was informal training on the job, i.e., learning by doing. The explanation for this was the small number of trainees enrolled at any point in time by any single firm. There seemed to be no interest in an area-wide training center to train the key occupation of sewing machine operator."--P. iii.