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Workforce and Manufacturing:

 

Lynch, Bernie, Diana Polson, Stephen Herzenberg. “Made Right Here: Workforce within the Maker Movement.” Chapter in Keith Campbell’s updated Manufacturing Workforce Development Playbook, October 2015.

 

Wial, Howard, Peter Creticos, Meghan McShan; With the assistance of Stephen Herzenberg, Diana Polson. 2013. “New App for Making it in America: Year One Evaluation Report.” University of Illinois at Chicago: Center for Urban Economic Development. December 2013. http://urbaneconomy.org/sites/default/files/New_App_Y1_report_final_wLogo.pdf

 

Human and Social Service Impacts of Gas Drilling:

 

Price, Mark, Luis Basurto, Stephen Herzenberg, Diana Polson, Sharon Ward and Ellis Wazeter. 2014. “The Shale Tipping Point: The Relationship of Drilling to Crime, Traffic Fatalities, STDs, and Rents in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio.” Multi-State Shale Research Collaborative. December 2014. http://www.multistateshale.org/shale-tipping-point

 

Ward, Sharon, Diana Polson, Mark Price. 2014. “Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Natural Gas Development in Tioga County, Pennsylvania: A Case Study.” Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center and Keystone Research Center, April 2014. https://pennbpc.org/sites/pennbpc.org/files/tiogaCASESTUDY.pdf

 

Herzenberg, Steve, Diana Polson and Mark Price. 2014. “Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Natural Gas Development in Greene County, Pennsylvania: A Case Study.” Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center and Keystone Research Center, April 2014. https://pennbpc.org/sites/pennbpc.org/files/greeneCASESTUDY.pdf

 

Paid Sick Leave:

 

Polson, Diana. 2014. “Workers deserve paid sick leave: Yet some Pennsylvania legislators not only don’t like it, they want to stop local governments from guaranteeing it.” Pittsburgh Post Gazette. February 2, 2014. http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2014/02/02/Workers-deserve-paid-sick-leave/stories/201402020063

 

Care Work:

 

Polson, Diana. 2013. "The Caring Precariat: Home Health Care Work in New York City." CUNY Academic Works.
http://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds_legacy/239/

 

Low Wage Work, Workplace Violations and Labor Law:

 

Bernhardt, Annette, Michael Spiller and Diana Polson. “All Work and No Pay: Violations of Employment and Labor Laws in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City.” Social Forces (2013) doi: 10.1093/sf/sos193. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2013387 

 

Theodore, Nik, Annette Bernhardt and James DeFilippis with Ruth Milkman, Douglas Heckathorn, Mirabai Auer, Ana Luz Gonzalez, Victor Narro, Jason Perelshteyn, Diana Polson and Michael Spiller. 2012. “Under the Radar: Tracking the Violation of Labour Standards in Low-Wage Industries in the US.” In Are Bad Jobs Inevitable: Trends, Determinants and Responses to Job Quality in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Warhurst, Carre, Findlay and Tilly. New York: Palgrove MacMillian.

 

Polson, Diana, James DeFilippis, Annette Bernhardt. 2011. “Working Without Laws in New York City.” Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs. March/April 2011.

 

Polson, Diana. 2011. “By Our Sides: The Vital Work of Immigrant Direct Care Workers.” Direct Care Alliance: New York. May 2011.

 

Bernhardt, Annette, James DeFilippis and Diana Polson. “Catch the city’s wage thieves.” New York Daily News Op Ed. February 3, 2010. http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/catch-city-wage-thieves-300-000-new-yorkers-losing-18-million-week-article-1.193803

 

Bernhardt, Annette, Diana Polson and James DeFilippis. 2010. "Working Without Laws: A Survey of Employment and Labor Law Violations in New York City." New York: National Employment Law Project. http://www.nelp.org/content/uploads/2015/03/WorkingWithoutLawsNYC.pdf

 

Milkman, Ruth, Ana Luz Gonzalez and Victor Narro, with Annette Bernhardt, Nik Theodore, Douglas Heckathorn, Mirabai Auer, James DeFilippis, Jason Perelshteyn, Diana Polson and Michael Spiller. 2010. "Wage Theft and Workplace Violations in Los Angeles: The Failure of Employment and Labor Law for Low-Wage Workers." Los Angeles: Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UCLA.

 

Theodore, Nik, Mirabai Auer, Ryan Hollon and Sandra Morales-Mirque, with Annette Bernhardt, Ruth Milkman, Douglas Heckathorn, James DeFilippis, Ana Luz Gonzalez, Victor Narro, Jason Perelshteyn, Diana Polson and Michael Spiller. 2010. "Unregulated Work In Chicago: The Breakdown of Workplace Protections in the Low-Wage Labor Market." Chicago: Center for Urban Economic Development, University of Illinois at Chicago.

 

Bernhardt, Annette, Ruth Milkman, Douglas Heckathorn, Mirabai Auer, James DeFilippis, Ana Luz Gonzalez, Victor Narro, Jason Perelshteyn, Diana Polson and Michael Spiller. 2009. "Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers: Violations of Employment and Labor Laws in America’s Cities." New York: Center for Urban Economic Development, UIC, National Employment Law Project, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. http://www.nelp.org/content/uploads/2015/03/BrokenLawsReport2009.pdf?nocdn=1

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