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dc.contributor.advisorHawley, Jana Marie, 1955-eng
dc.contributor.authorLink, Stephanie Anneng
dc.date.issued2013eng
dc.date.submitted2013 Falleng
dc.description"December 2013."eng
dc.description"A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School At the University of Missouri--Columbia In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Sciences."eng
dc.descriptionThesis supervisor: Dr. Jana Hawley.eng
dc.description.abstractThis study explores the changes in the social of the GARROBO project trainees after they join the career-training program. Bebbingtons' (1999) theory of capitals explained how possessing different types of capital or assets serve as a vehicle to achieve a sustainable livelihood. He emphasized social capital, or the ability to network with others to gain access to new opportunities may be the most important type of capital (Bebbington, 1999, pp. 2021-2023). Chambers explains that the poor people in developing counties need an outsider to kick start change, "The poorer rural people, it is said, must help themselves; but this, trapped as they are, they often cannot do. The initiative, in enabling them better to help themselves, lies with outsiders who have more power and resources and most of whom are neither rural nor poor" (Chambers, 1983, pp. 2-3). The purpose was to determine if the GARROBO Project model aided trainees' to gaining access to the necessary resources and knowledge needed to achieve a sustainable livelihood. The model of the GARROBO project is unique. There is a reciprocal relationship between TexOps, an apparel factory, and the GARROBO Project, a career and life skills training program. In exchange for an elevated social image TexOps offered the resources, connections, and the conditions needed for the GARROBO Project to operate. Purposeful sampling was used to select participants for the qualitative case study. Data was collected through interviews, photo elicitation interviews and, participant observation. Implications of this study are for coordinators of career training programs and other facilitators, factory owners or other companies interested in development of similar programs, and academia. Limitations of the study were study length, language barriers and reliability of participants.eng
dc.description.bibrefIncludes bibliographical references (pages 60-62).eng
dc.format.extent1 online resource (viii, 88 pages) : color mapeng
dc.identifier.oclc898872839eng
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10355/43064
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.32469/10355/43064eng
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.publisherUniversity of Missouri--Columbiaeng
dc.relation.ispartofcommunityUniversity of Missouri--Columbia. Graduate School. Theses and Dissertationseng
dc.sourceSubmitted by the University of Missouri--Columbia Graduate Schooleng
dc.titleA case study of the GARROBO Projecteng
dc.typeThesiseng
thesis.degree.disciplineTextile and apparel management (MU)eng
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Missouri--Columbiaeng
thesis.degree.levelMasterseng
thesis.degree.nameM.S.eng


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