Foreword /Peter Georgescu --Introduction: Achieving the Promise of Work /Peter A. Creticos --The Impact of Bias and Structural Inequality on Work.1. Preparing for the Future of Work in Regions and Cities /Jonathan Barr and Karen E. Maguire --Gender and the U.S. Labor Market: Change and...

Knowledge about markets and technology are essential to the discovery and exploitation of opportunities for innovation. In this paper, we examine the modes of new knowledge acquisition (i.e. market vs. technological) practices and their effect on innovation in a sample of over 300 new firms and...

Shows how major shifts in federal policy are spurring local public housing authorities to demolish their high-rise, low-income developments, and replace them with affordable low-rise, mixed income communities. This book focuses on Chicago, and that city's affordable housing crisis