Publications by Joel Rogers

Laura Dresser, and Joel Rogers. The State of Working Wisconsin 2017: Facts & Figures. COWS, 2017.

For more than two decades now, annually, on Labor Day, COWS reports on how working people are faring in the state. The State of Working Wisconsin, released biannually on even-numbered years since 1996, is our long-form report, and looks at the economy comprehensively from a working-family perspective. In odd-numbered years, also biannually, we provide a more abbreviated and focused report.

In this year’s report, we provide our overview of some of the most critical issues facing working people in the state. The issues, taken together, are daunting – slow growth in the Wisconsin labor market, long-term stagnation in wages, extreme black/white disparity, increasing income inequality, and declining unionization. The report provides a chance to take stock of what the data say about working people in Wisconsin.

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Joel Rogers. “Foreword: Federalism Bound”. Harvard Law & Policy Review, Vol. 10, no. 2, 2016, pp. 281-97.

Essays gathered in this symposium of the Harvard Law & Policy Review consider state policy treatment of four issues of national, and even international, importance: global warming, elementary and secondary schooling, gun violence, and mass criminalization

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Mark Barenberg, Richard Freeman, and Joel Rogers. The Legal, Economic and Business Case for Neutrality and Majority Verification of Worker Desire for Union Representation. 2016.

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Joel Rogers. “Stumbling towards Stockholm”. Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 45, no. 6, 2016, pp. 703-7.

Review of Lane Kenworthy’s Social Democratic America.

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Joel Rogers. “The Friedricks Threat”. The Nation, 2016.

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Laura Dresser, Joel Rogers, and Javier Rodriguez. State of Working Wisconsin 2016. COWS, 2016.

The State of Working Wisconsin 2016 uses the best and recent data available on jobs and wages to describe the economic challenges that Wisconsin continues to face.

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Joel Rogers. To Support Wisconsin’s Middle Class, Change Our State Government. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2015, pp. 1-2J.

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Laura Dresser, Siying Fu, Javier Rodriguez, and Joel Rogers. The State of Working Wisconsin 2015: Facts & Figures. COWS, 2015.

Over Labor Day weekend, COWS released The State of Working Wisconsin 2015 Facts & Figures, an overview of the critical issues facing working people in the state. From the perspective of working Wisconsin, the news this weekend is not good. Wisconsin faces slow growth, extreme racial disparity in unemployment, long-term stagnation in wages, and one-fourth of workers struggling in poverty-wage jobs.

Since 1996, COWS has released The State of Working Wisconsin every two years on Labor Day. It provides use the best and most recent data available to help build a comprehensive understanding of how working people in the state are doing. The full report comes out in even years. In odd years, like this one, 2015, the report is abbreviated and more focused.

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Joel Rogers. Productive Democracy. Vol. 400, The Nation, 2015, pp. 206-10.

From The Nation‘s 150th Anniversary Issue, April 6, 2015.

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Joel Rogers. The Right’s Kill Shot. Vol. 298, The Nation, 2014, pp. 4-6.

Harris v. Quinn has the highest stakes for labor in April 14, 2014, The Nation.

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