High Road Strategy Center

Jobs and Skills Publications

Below is a list of our reports related to jobs and skills, in descending order by year published. Explore other topics here and all High Road Strategy Center reports here.

  • Rogers, J., and J. Cohen. Asociaciones Secundarias Y Gobierno democratico. Vol. 84-85, Zona Abierto, 1998, pp. 3-122.
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  • Rogers, J., and R. Freeman. Trg Delovne Sile: Nobeno Kosilo Ni zastonj. Razgledi, 1998, pp. 10-11.
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  • Rogers, J., and L. Dresser. “Networks, Sectors, and Workforce Learning”. Jobs and Economic Development: Strategies and Practices, Sage, 1998, pp. 64-82.

    Reprinted in Institute for Research on Poverty Reprint Series 783 (Madison: Institute for Research on Poverty, 1998). With L. Dresser.

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  • Rogers, J., and L. Dresser. Rebuilding Job Access and Career Advancement Systems in the New Economy. COWS, 1997.

    This report describes changes in the labor market that have contributed to the breakdown of systems that once provided workers with clear signals and good training. It also discusses the results of those changes for incumbent workers and new labor market entrants, focusing on the growing problems that workers face. The report describes a series of projects that seek to overcome those problems and discusses some elements of theory that might unite practice on the ground and help identify the ways that these distinct projects could grow to develop further leverage in jobs systems.

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  • Rogers, J. Labor and Economic Development. 1997.

    This essay defines the role labor needs to play in the economy. Developing a strategy to have its voice heard, labor can take part in decision making that affects the direction of economic development.

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  • ,. Using Regional Economic Analysis in Urban Jobs Strategies. 1997.

    This document is a methods and strategy guidebook for organizations working in depressed urban areas to help area residents get good family supporting jobs. Looking at the demand side, the report suggests ways that organizations can identify opportunities in the local economy.

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  • Luria, D., and J. Rogers. A New Urban Agenda. no. 22, Boston Review, 1997, pp. 3-8.

    An article that states the importance of an urban strategy to save cities through metro reconstruction.

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  • Rogers, J. “The Folks Who Brought You The Weekend: Labor and Independent Politics”. Audacious Democracy , Houghton Mifflin, 1997, pp. 11-20.

    An article about the need for labor to develop a new, organizational strategy to better position themselves in economic and political decision-making processes.

    Reprinted in Working USA 1 (November/December 1997): 11-20.

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  • Dresser, L., J. Rogers, and J. Whittaker. The State of Working Wisconsin 1996. 1996.

    The State of Working Wisconsin provides a statistical portrait of the economic status of Wisconsin workers and their families. Drawing on the most recent  data available, it maps Wisconsin performance on such leading economic indicators of worker well-being as household and family income, wages, inequality, and taxes.
    Documents below include the Executive Summary as well as Full Report.

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  • Rogers, J. “Everything That Moves: Union Leverage and Critical Mass in Metropolitan Space”. Central Labor Councils and the Revival of American Unionism: Organizing for Justice in Our Communities , M.E. Sharpe, pp. 35-52.
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