Resources
Publications
Researching and producing publications that support our mission and our Partner groups' campaigns is a major component of the Partnership for Working Families' work. Below you will find links to full-text versions of all of our publications, as well as those of our Partner organizations.
Date: September 2009
The objective of this article is to point the way toward policy that meaningfully and lawfully addresses the important concerns with green development and results in middle class careers in green construction for all segments of a community.
Date: March 2009
High-quality development is the key to transforming local economies and creating shared prosperity. The set of brief documents that comprises Community Benefits: Leveraging Partnerships for Successful Development identifies key lessons and best practices for creating effective community benefits partnerships with developers.
Date: December 2008
Local elected and appointed officials are critical allies in campaigns to ensure that development opens doors to opportunity and greater equality for urban residents. The important—often courageous—work of these officials is the basis for Community Benefits: Practical Tools for Proactive Development. This set of brief documents provides compelling examples of a broad range of community benefits tools, and offers suggestions for applying this development model in different types of cities.
Date: December 2008
As we prepare for new leadership in America, we can't let the opportunity to rebuild the middle class pass us by. Our federal policy agenda builds on Partner organizations’ work at the regional level to create pathways out of poverty through public and private investment, providing recommendations for increasing the supply of middle class jobs throughout the economy, in construction, service, retail, hospitality and logistics.
Date: July 2008
Making Development Work for Local Residents: Local Hire Programs and Implementation Strategies That Serve Low-Income Communities documents our movement's success in winning hundreds of new job opportunities for local residents.
Date: July 2008
Base Building: Organizing for Community Benefits in the Reuse of Closed Military Installations provides concrete information on organizing communities to get more benefits out of military base reuse. Base Building includes a detailed overview of the base reuse process and a discussion of the steps you need to take to attach community benefits principles to the base reuse plans in your community.
Date: June 2008
Rebuilding the Base reveals how communities are devastated by base closures and are often unable to replace the number or quality of jobs lost. The report also highlights ways that communities can better harness investment in public land at military bases to create good-paying jobs, affordable housing, and other community benefits.
Date: January 2008
This article seeks to describe the efforts of local groups to obtain their right to the city and achieve the goal of better neighborhoods while preventing community displacement. It focuses in particular on the legal strategies used and explores some of the lessons learned in local groups’ campaigns.
Date: January 2008
The data in this report shows that University of California workers in service and patient care positions earn significantly less than the livable wages other colleges and hospitals in the state pay, a fact that bodes ill for the 55 communities around the state in which these low-wage employees are concentrated. As one of the largest employers in California and one of the largest employers in the area surrounding each UC campus, the University has an important role to play in the future of these communities.
Date: January 2008
This article hopes to clarify the term CBA by proposing a definition that would limit its use to describing agreements that reflect the essential values of past CBAs: inclusiveness and accountability. Inclusiveness here refers to the process through which a CBA is negotiated, and accountability refers to the outcome—in particular whether CBA commitments are specific and legally enforceable.
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