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COWS report on “More Servants or a Better Society”, a research project that investigates why low-end service sector jobs have grown so dramatically in recent decades and how workers who fill those positions can improve their lot.
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COWS report of a research project, “Economic Opportunity in a Volatile Economy,” that investigates labor market intermediaries (LMI). This research project is jointly sponsored with Working Partnerships USA.
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COWS overview of the Advanced Manufacturing Project (AMP), a research consortium consisting of COWS staff and colleagues at the Center for Economic Regional Issues and the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center.
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Bernhardt, A., and L. Dresser. Why Privatizing Government Services Would Hurt Women Workers. COWS, 2001, p. 23.
Prepared for the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.
This report analyzes the implications of privatization for women workers, especially those employed in low-end occupations. Data analyzed show that women disproportionately depend on the public sector for jobs that pay decent wages and offer benefits. This is especially true for African American and Hispanic women, and for women who do not have a college education. In part, higher wages and better access to health and pension benefits in the public sector can be attributed to higher rates of union coverage. The evidence suggests that privatizing government services will have a negative impact on women workers, especially those workers who are most vulnerable.
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Dresser, L. The Local Child Care Wage Initiative: Building Quality Jobs for the People Who Care for Our Kids. COWS, 2001, p. 8.
A profile of The Local Child Care Wage Initiative and a discussion of the challenges that child care faces.
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COWS studied the effect of the Initiative on quality of care, turnover, and workers’ willingness to stay in the industry in this first briefing. -
Beth Hughes , M., and D. E. Woods. From Stumps to Dumps: Wisconsin’s Anti-Environmental Subsidies. COWS, 2001.
The purpose of this report is to point out some tax breaks, subsidies and regulatory exemptions granted to industries under state law that contradict Wisconsin’s stated environmental policies.
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,. Child Care Matters. 2001.
Quick facts about child care at the national and state levels.
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B. Freeman, R., and J. Rogers. Worker Representation…Again!. no. 3, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law, 2001, pp. 375-84.
An introduction to the Symposium, “The Worker Representation and Participation Study (WRPS).”
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Parker, E., and J. Rogers. “Building the High Road in Metro Areas: Sectoral Training and Employment Projects”. Rekindling the Movement: Labor’s Quest for Relevance in the 21st Century, Cornell University, ILR Press, 2001, pp. 256-72.
This chapter discusses the need for unions to take explicit leadership in in the restructuring process of the “high road”- a road of new technologies, work systems, and skills, and to bargain over the resulting gains. The authors assert that labor-led sectoral training and employment projects are just one type of initiative that can help improve worker performance.
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Katz, B., and J. Rogers. “Metropolitan Power: The Next Urban Agenda”. The Next Agenda: Blueprint for a New Progressive Movement, Westview Press, 2001, pp. 189-10.
A chapter in The Next Agenda: Blueprint for the New Progressive Movement, is a discussion of the challenges, including poverty, housing, transportation, and demographic factors, that metropolitan regions face. The next urban agenda should consist of the things it takes to harness the economic power of metro areas, improve the quality and equity of life within them, and move the country more generally onto the high-road of shared prosperity.
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