High Road Strategy Center

Publications by Joel Rogers

  • Rogers, J., Institute for America’s Future, and Perryman Group. New Energy for America: The Apollo Jobs Report. Apollo Alliance, 2004.
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  • Bernhardt, A., and J. Rogers. “Taking the High Road in Milwaukee: The Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership”. Partnering for Change: How Unions and Community Groups Build Coalitions for Economic Justice , M.E. Sharpe, 2004, pp. 231-48.

    Wisconsin has been home to a series of interrelated partnerships between labor and employers that have built institutions to support high-road business practice around quality, worker training, innovation, and cooperation. COWS has been pivotal in these experiments.

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  • Rogers, J. “Devolve This! Toward a Progressive Strategy in the States”. Taking Back America: And Taking Down the Radical Right, Avalon/Nation Books, 2004, pp. 173-89.
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  • Rogers, J. Progressives Should Vote Edwards. The Nation, 2004.

    Reprinted in The Capital Times as “ Joel Rogers: Progressives should vote for Edwards as best on issues,” February 12, 2004.

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  • Dresser, L., and J. Rogers. The State of Working Wisconsin: Update 2003. COWS, 2003.

    Every two years, COWS produces The State of Working Wisconsin.

    Relying on data provided by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), COWS offers “The State of Working Wisconsin: Update 2003” as a brief investigation of the effects of the continuing economic slowdown on workers in the state.

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  • Rogers, J., M. Vidal, J. Whitford, and J. Zeitlin. Challenges & Options for Wisconsin Component Manufacturing: Final AMP Report to the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership. COWS, 2003.

    This report summarizes research on Wisconsin component manufacturing undertaken during the recent period (June 2003). The component manufacturing industry group, heavily concentrated in the Upper Midwest, supplies parts and subsystems to the leading national end-user manufacturing industries, including autos; farm, mining, and construction equipment; and electrical appliances. As a sub-sector of manufacturing, it stands in the value chain between machine tools and the large end-user industries it feeds and provides a base. Its critical location makes it an exemplary nexus of more general pressures on U.S. manufacturing, and of great strategic importance in their resolution. Our research has examined those pressures and firm strategy of response in three areas: the relation of supplier firms and their customer OEMs (original equipment manufacturers); intermediary institutions within industry; and public policy.

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  • Dresser, L., and J. Rogers. “Part of the Solution: Emerging Workforce Intermediaries In the United States”. Governing Work and Welfare in a New Economy: European and American Experiments, Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 266-91.

    Chapter 10, in editors Jonathan Zeitlin and David Trubek’s Governing Work and Welfare in a New Economy: European and American Experiments.

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  • Rogers, J. Little to Celebrate on Labor Day. Wisconsin State Journal, 2003, p. A10.
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  • Boyne, S., and J. Rogers. A Snapshot of Federal Funding to Wisconsin. COWS, 2002.

    Prepared for
    October 14-16, 2002
    Wisconsin Economic Summit 3
    Milwaukee, WI

    Wisconsin’s fiscal crisis has sparked a fierce debate about state tax and spending levels as well as the state’s lack of a comprehensive economic development strategy. Unfortunately most state policymakers have ignored the fact that, in addition to the imbalance that exists within the state between revenues and spending, there is a wide disparity in the financial flows between Wisconsin and the federal government. The sum of federal tax payments that Wisconsinites send to the nation’s capital outpaces federal domestic spending within the state by a wide margin.

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  • Dresser, L., and J. Rogers. The State of Working Wisconsin 2002. COWS, 2002.

    The State of Working Wisconsin, 2002 is our attempt to answer questions regarding the recent recession and unemployment with the best and most recent data available. Drawing on a wide variety of information on family incomes, taxes, wages, unemployment, and poverty, it examines the impact of today’s economy on Wisconsin workers and families.

    Documents include both Full Report and Summary.

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