Table of Contents:
  • The "local" in workforce development politics: an introduction / Robert P. Giloth
  • The politics of workforce development: constructing a performance regime in Denver / Susan E. Clarke
  • Ecologies of workforce development in Milwaukee / Archon Fung and Scott Zdrazil
  • Workforce systems change in a politically fragmented environment / David W. Bartelt
  • Workforce systems change in Seattle / Steven Rathgeb Smith and Susan Davis
  • Workforce development policy in the St. Louis metropolitan region: a critical overview and assessment / Scott Cummings, Allan Tomey, and Robert Flack
  • Comparative local workforce politics in six cities: theory and action / Robert P. Giloth
  • Poverty and the workforce challenge / Clarence Stone and Donn Worgs.