CLCR

Publications

New Articles:

Transforming Inner-City Schools To Train Tomorrow's Work Force by Joe Barrett, June 5, 2008

"Failing California's Communities" a new report released by CLCR, and the Partnership for Working Families
Available in PDF

Concept Paper: A Campaign to Build the High Road Retail Sector in Chicago
Click here format.
Impact Analysis of Walmart: A Report for the New Chicago School of Community Economic Development
Available in PDF format.

Report to the Illinois Manufacturers' Association
The Executive Summary is available in PDF format.
The entire report is available in PDF format.

The High Road, featured in the Canadian journal, Making Waves.
Available in PDF

Key CLCR Documents:

These are the papers that really define CLCR.

Building the Bridge to the High Road by Dan Swinney.
Available in HTML or PDF format. Also available as a PDF in Spanish and Portuguese.

Creating A Manufacturing Career Path System in Cook County
Available in PDF format.

The CLCR's Strategic Approach Applied to Chicago's Food Sector
Available as a Word Document.

Key Documents for Chicago's Premier Food Manufacturing Sector:

CLCR's new signature program, Food Chicago, is an initiative that aims to make food companies in the Chicago region more profitable and competitive through workforce training, modernization, networking, and advocating for innovative public policy.

Food Chicago's key projects include:

The Food Chicago Career Path, funded by the United States Department of Labor, provides a road map for developing an effective, standards-based workforce development system for Chicago's food industry that is based on collaboration with companies, training providers, government, community and workers.
An overview of the project is available in PDF format.
The Center for Business Innovation and Training. Through its state-of-the-art commercial food processing facility, the center will provide entrepreneurs, small businesses, and the region's significant food manufacturing sector with access to the resources, tools and skills necessary for long-term, sustainable growth.
An overview of the project is available in PDF format.
Metropolitan Chicago's Food Manufacturing Industry: A Statistical Profile, is Food Chicago's latest research report.
Available in PDF format.

Articles by CLCR Board Members and Others:

The Social and Solidarity Economy: Towards an ‘Alternative’ Globalisation by Nancy Neamtan, President of the Chantier de l’économie sociale and CLCR Board Member.
Available in HTML format.

Understanding Pension Fund Corporate Engagement in a Global Arena by Prof. Gordon L. Clark and Tessa Hebb (CLCR Board Member), School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.
Available in HTML format.

The Initiative for Fiduciary Responsibility by Steve Viederman, CLCR Board Member.
Available in HTML format.

The Convergence of Universal Owners and Worker/Stakeholders: The Heartland Network Pushes a New Paradigm by Tom Croft, Director, Heartland Labor Capital Network/SVA.
Available in HTML format.

International Work:

See an overview of our various international projects.

The High Road, a special section of the Canadian development journal, Making Waves, is devoted to the North American Network for the Solidarity Economy, or NANSE. CLCR is a founding organization of NANSE.

One of the more exciting aspects of our international work is that we come into contact with economic models which both feature many of the High Road practices we value and compete successfully with orthodox market models. Two such models are the Flexible Manufacturing Networks in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy and the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation in the Basque region of Spain.

Emilia Romagna

New Impressions of Emilia Romagna--a Global Leader in Innovative Approaches to Development and Economic Democracy
Dan Swinney, Executive Director of CLCR
Available as a Word Document

Articles on Emilia-Romagna by Matt Hancock, CLCR Project Director

Introduction to Emilia-Romagna Click here

The Imola Cooperative District: Forging the High Road to Globalization Click here

Markets & Solidarity: Social Co-ops in Emilia-Romagna Click here

Flexible Networks, Powerpoint Click here

Italy's Emilia Romagna Clustering Co-op Development
David Thompson
Available in PDF format

Model of Economic Democracy
Bob Williams
Available as a Word document

Coop in the Present Competitive Context
A powerpoint presentation available in PDF format

Regional Development and Industrial Clusters in Global Competition by Andrea Bardi, Institute for Labour Foundation
Available as a Word Document

Mondragon

MONDRAGON COOPERATIVE CORPORATION (MCC), An Introduction by Fred Freundlich, Partner Ownership Associates, Inc., Bilbao, Spain.
Click here to download.

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