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  | | Equity, Growth, and Community(1st Edition) What the Nation Can Learn from America's Metro Areas by Chris Benner, Manuel Pastor Paperback, 366 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-28441-8, ISBN: 0-520-28441-0 "A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press s new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the last several years, much has been written about growing economic challenges, increasing income inequality, and political polarization in the United States. This book argues that lessons for addressing these national challenges are emerging from ..." |
 | | This Could Be the Start of Something Big(1st Edition) How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Reshaping Metropolitan America by Manuel Pastor Jr., Chris Benner, Martha Matsuoka, Jnr. Manuel Pastor Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2009 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-7462-0, ISBN: 0-8014-7462-0 "For nearly two decades, progressives have been dismayed by the steady rise of the right in U.S. politics. Often lost in the gloom and doom about American politics is a striking and sometimes underanalyzed phenomenon: the resurgence of progressive politics and movements at a local level. Across the country, urban coalitions, including labor, faith groups, and community-based organizations, have come together to support living wage laws a ..." |
 | | Staircases or Treadmills? Labor Market Intermediaries and Economic Opportunity in a Changing Economy by Chris Benner, Laura Leete, Manuel Pastor Hardcover, 308 Pages, Published 2007 by Russell Sage Foundation ISBN-13: 978-0-87154-169-7, ISBN: 0-87154-169-6 "Globalization, technological change, and deregulation have made the American marketplace increasingly competitive in recent decades, but for many workers this "new economy" has entailed heightened job insecurity, lower wages, and scarcer benefits. As the job market has grown more volatile, a variety of labor market intermediaries--organizations that help job seekers find employment--have sprung up, from private temporary age ..." |
 | | Just Growth(1st Edition) Inclusion and Prosperity in America's Metropolitan Regions (Regions and Cities) by Chris Benner, Manuel Pastor Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-415-51781-2, ISBN: 0-415-51781-8 "Just Growth Breaking new ground in its innovative blend of quantitative and qualitative methods, the book essentially argues that another sort of growth is indeed possible. While offering specific insights for regional leaders and analysts of metropolitan areas, the authors also draw a broader - and quite timely - set of conclusions about how to scale up these efforts to address a U.S. economy still seeking to recover from economic cris ..." |
 | | Work in the New Economy(1st Edition) Flexible Labor Markets in Silicon Valley by Chris Benner, Manuel Castells Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2002 by Wiley-Blackwell Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-0-631-23250-6, ISBN: 0-631-23250-8 "This book contributes to our understanding of the transformation of work in the information economy, through a detailed examination of labor markets in Silicon Valley. It provides an original and insightful analysis of flexible labor including growing volatility in work demands and increasingly tenuous employment relations. Contributes to our understanding of the transformation of work in the information economy, through ..." |
 | | Just Growth(1st Edition) Inclusion and Prosperity in America's Metropolitan Regions (Regions and Cities) by Manuel Jr. Pastor, Chris Benner Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-415-68194-0, ISBN: 0-415-68194-4 "Breaking new ground in its innovative blend of quantitative and qualitative methods, the book essentially argues that another sort of growth is indeed possible. While offering specific insights for regional leaders and analysts of metropolitan areas, the authors also draw a broader – and quite timely – set of conclusions about how to scale up these efforts to address a U.S. economy still seeking to recover from economic crisis and ameli ..." |
 | | Work in the New Economy(1st Edition) Flexible Labor Markets in Silicon Valley by Chris Benner Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2002 by Wiley-Blackwell Ilustrado ISBN-13: 978-0-631-23249-0, ISBN: 0-631-23249-4 "This book contributes to our understanding of the transformation of work in the information economy, through a detailed examination of labor markets in Silicon Valley. It provides an original and insightful analysis of flexible labor including growing volatility in work demands and increasingly tenuous employment relations. Contributes to our understanding of the transformation of work in the information economy, through ..." |
 | | This Could Be the Start of Something Big How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Reshaping Metropolitan America (Hardback) by Manuel Pastor Jr., Chris Benner, Martha Matsuoka Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2009 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-4721-1, ISBN: 0-8014-4721-6 "The authors show how momentum is building as new policies addressing regional infrastructure, housing, and workforce development bring together business and community groups who share a common desire to see their city and region succeed." |
 | | Solidarity Economics Why Mutuality and Movements Matter (Hardback) by Chris Benner, Manuel Pastor Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2021 by John Wiley And Sons Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4407-3, ISBN: 1-5095-4407-0 "In this book Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor invite us to imagine a new sort of solidarity economics – an approach grounded in our instincts for connection and community – and in so doing, actually build a more robust and sustainable ..." |
 | | Equity, Growth, and Community What the Nation Can Learn from America's Metro Areas by Chris Benner, Jr. Pastor Manuel 364 Pages, Published 2015 by Univ Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96004-6, ISBN: 0-520-96004-1 "In the mid-2000s, CASA Latina—a nonprofit organization working to empower Latino immigrants, primarily day laborers, through educational and economic opportunities—was displaced from its trailer in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle due to plans for reconstructing the Alaska Way Viaduct. The organization set out to find a site on which it could build a permanent worker center, and a potential site was identified: a vacant lot in ..." |
 | | This Could Be the Start of Something Big How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Reshaping Metropolitan America by Manuel Pastor Jr., Chris Benner, Martha Matsuoka 272 Pages, Published 2015 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-5788-3, ISBN: 0-8014-5788-2 "The New Regional Economies: The U.S. Common Market and the Global Economy. Thousand Oaks ... Benner, Chris. 1996. Shock Absorbers in the Flexible Economy: The Rise of Contingent Employment in Silicon Valley. San Jose: Working ... Work in the New Economy: Flexible Labor Markets in Silicon Valley. Oxford: ..." |
 | | Just Growth Inclusion and Prosperity in America's Metropolitan Regions by Chris Benner, Manuel Pastor 234 Pages, Published 2012 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-203-15558-5, ISBN: 0-203-15558-0 "Breaking new ground in its innovative blend of quantitative and qualitative methods, the book essentially argues that another sort of growth is indeed possible." |
 | | This Could Be the Start of Something Big How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Reshaping Metropolitan America by Manuel Pastor Jr., Chris Benner, Martha Matsuoka 272 Pages, Published 2011 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-5912-2, ISBN: 0-8014-5912-5 "Swanstrom, Todd, and Laura Barrett. 2007. “The Road to Jobs: The Fight for Transportation Equity.” Social Policy, Spring–Summer. http://www.socialpolicy. org/index.php?id=1833. Swanstrom, Todd, with Laura Barrett, Shantha Ready, Michele Fontaine, Scott Krummenacher, and Ruth Sergenian. 2007. The Road to Jobs: Patterns of Employment in the Construction Industry in Eighteen Metropolitan Areas. Report for the Transportation Equity Net ..." |
 | | Information Age Ser. Work in the New Economy : Flexible Labor Markets in Silicon Valley by Chris Benner Published 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-470-70620-6, ISBN: 0-470-70620-1 |
 | | Work in the New Economy Flexible Labor Markets in Silicon Valley by Chris Benner Published 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-470-69616-3, ISBN: 0-470-69616-8 |
 | | Digital Cities(1st Edition) by Chris Benner Hardcover, Published 2007 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-36659-5, ISBN: 0-415-36659-3 "V 0000000000000 0000000000 0000000000000" |
 | | Digital Cities(1st Edition) by Chris Benner Paperback, 254 Pages, Published 2007 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-36660-1, ISBN: 0-415-36660-7 "This exciting new text examines the ways digital technologies are transforming cities across the globe, focusing on three key themes: technology, people and politics - explores how power shapes technological development the cyborg self - ..." |
 | | Staircases or Treadmills? Labor Market Intermediaries and Economic Opportunity in a Changing Economy by Chris Benner, Laura Leete, Manuel Pastor 312 Pages, Published 2007 by Russell Sage Foundation ISBN-13: 978-1-61044-043-1, ISBN: 1-61044-043-9 "For LMI users, the reference job is the last job they held during the last three years that was obtained through an LMI. For the non-LMI sample, the reference job is the current or most recent job held. Furthermore, in the multivariate analysis ... David Autor and Susan Houseman (2005a) report a similar concentration of temporary agency placements in production and manual labor occupations relative to direct-hire job placements. Th ..." |
 | | Information Age Ser. Work in the New Economy : Flexible Labor Markets in Silicon Valley 9 by Chris Benner 312 Pages, Published 2003 by John Wiley & Sons Inc (E) ISBN-13: 978-0-470-69541-8, ISBN: 0-470-69541-2 "In B. Straw, L. Cummings, eds. Research in Organizational Behaviour, Vol. 10, pp . 257–303. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press Pink Daniel. 1998. Free Agent Nation. In Fast Company, 12, December/January pp. 131–47 Piore Michael. 1980. Birds ofPassage: Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Piore Michael J., Sabel Charles F. 1984. The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity. New York: Basic ..." |
 | | Local and Global The Management of Cities in the Information Age by Editor-Manuel Castells, Editor-Jordi Borja, Jordie Borja, Mireia Belil, Chris Benner Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1997 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-85383-441-7, ISBN: 1-85383-441-6 "This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global. In this way, cities will remain the focus of social ..." |
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