Moving Up in the New Economy | Urban Sprawl | Economic Revitalization | The Boston Renaissance | Growing Prosperity | Negotiating the Future | The Great U-Turn | The Deindustrialization of America

Moving Up in the New Economy: Career Ladders for U.S. Workers

Joan Fitzgerald. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2006.

Strategies that create new opportunities for low-wage workers to learn skills and advance through a progression of higher-skilled and better-paid jobs are thoroughly explored across various sectors of our economy in Moving Up. Case studies of career-ladder programs are presented at the firm, local and regional level in five sectors: health care, child care, education, biotechnology, and manufacturing.

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Urban Sprawl: A Comprehensive Reference Guide

David Soule. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2005.

Urban sprawl has created a way-of-life in the United States that is becoming less and less sustainable, but our country is uniquely positioned to respond to the challenges of sprawl, according to CURP Associate Director David Soule. Urban Sprawl: A Comprehensive Reference Guide, offers a dynamic group of perspectives that explore these challenges, addressing sprawl as a legal question, a political issue, and a social problem.

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Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb

Joan Fitzgerald and Nancey Green Leigh. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002.

A discussion of leading revitalization strategies in the context of both city and suburban settings, offering case studies of program development and implementation. The text incorporates social justice and sustainability into how we think about and practice economic development. It discusses how revitalization strategies are implemented in both cities and suburbs, particularly inner-ring suburbs that are experiencing decline previously associated only with inner-city neighborhoods.

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The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis

Barry Bluestone and Mary Huff Stevenson. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000.

The culmination of nearly five years of research on the new Boston economy. It recounts the industrial and demographic revolution in post-World War II Boston and its impact on racial and ethnic attitudes, residential segregation, and the labor market success of whites, blacks, and Latinos.

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Growing Prosperity: The Battle for Growth with Equity in the 21st Century

Investigates the prospects for faster economic growth in the U.S.

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Negotiating the Future: A Labor Perspective on American Business

Barry Bluestone and Irving Bluestone. New York: Basic Books, 1992.

Co-authored with his father, Irving Bluestone, the book traces the history of labor-management relations since World War II and offers the concept of the "Enterprise Compact" as an approach to industrial relations which can boost productivity, improve product quality and innovation, and enhance employment security. As of 1998, Korean, Spanish, and Japanese editions had been published.

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The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America

Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison. New York: Basic Books, 1990.

A sequel to The Deindustrialization of America, this book investigates how economic policies have contributed to growing inequality.

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The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment, and the Dismantling of Basic Industry

Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison. New York: Basic Books, 1982.

Analyzes the restructuring of American industry and its economic and social impact on workers and communities.

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