43 research outputs found
Review of \u3cem\u3eRace, Place, and Environmental Justice after Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.\u3c/em\u3e Robert Bullard and Beverly Wright, Eds. Reviewed by Robert Forrant.
No full textBook review of Robert Bullard & Beverly Wright, Eds., Race, Place, and Environmental Justice after Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Westview Press, 2009. $32.00 paperback
Massachusetts History Commendation, presented to Robert Forrant
No full textRobert Forrant is a Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a board member of the Lawrence History Center. On the editorial board of Mass Benchmarks, a joint publication of the UMass President’s Office and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, he is editor with Jurg Siegenthaler of The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912: New Scholarship on the Bread & Roses Strike (2014) and co-author with the Lawrence History Center’s Susan Grabski of Lawrence, Massachusetts and the 1912 Bread & Roses Strike (2013). In 2012 he worked extensively on a variety of programs dedicated to the centennial anniversary of the Bread and Roses Strike. Currently he is leading a UMass Lowell effort to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Recent publications include: The Big Move: Immigrant Voices From a Mill City, with Christoph Strobel (2011) and Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley (2009). He has participated in numerous projects funded by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Lowell National Historical Park
Review of \u3cem\u3eStayin\u27 Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class.\u3c/em\u3e Jefferson Cowie. Reviewed by Robert Forrant.
No full textBook review of Jefferson Cowie, Stayin\u27 Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class. The New Press (2010). $21.95 (paperback)
Review of \u3cem\u3eUnsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto\u3c/em\u3e. Eric Tang. Reviewed by Robert Forrant
No full textEric Tang, Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto. Temple University Press, (2015), 220 pages, 70 (hardcover)
Globalization, Universities and Sustainable Human Development
No full textRobert Forrant and Jean L. Pyle look at the fast changing global economy and discuss what can be the role for the university, as an institution, to promote sustainable human development. They contend that the university is an important civil society institution, whose power could be considerable in promoting sustainability. The authors explore ways the university can play a role in fostering a development approach that countervails the preponderant power of institutions advocating a ‘market-driven’ development strategy. Cohesive links at the local and regional level between higher education and industry and community-based organizations create the possibility that difficult societal problems will be tackled and resolved. Development (2002) 45, 102–106. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1110388
Grinding Decline in Springfield: Is the Finance Control Board the Answer?
No full textSpringfield, Massachusetts, the Bay State’s third largest city, suffered staggering manufacturing job loss over the last thirty years of the twentieth century. In 2004, the financial impact of job loss, coupled with dubious fiscal management, plunged the city into near bankruptcy. In response, state government passed legislation appointing a Finance Control Board to manage city business. Wage freezes for City workers were continued and cuts in numerous essential services occurred to deal with the debt. But the question remains, can a Control Board approach grow a large stock of well-paying jobs — large enough to grow the city’s and the Connecticut River Valley’s economies?
This article originally appeared in a 2005 issue of the New England Journal of Public Policy (Volume 20, Issue 2): http://scholarworks.umb.edu/nejpp/vol20/iss2. For this reprint, the author has prepared an update, which is included after the conclusion of the original article
Lowell, Massachusetts 2025
No full textIncludes text, illustrations, and descriptive key to places of interest.
"This map, completed in May 2025, grows out of 'A people's guide to Greater Boston' (University of California Press, 2020) by Joseph Nevins, Suren Moodliar, and Eleni Macrakis."
"Financial support provided by: Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, Merrimack Valley Central Labor Council, UMass Lowell History Department.Color;1:8,75
Waterpower in Lowell: Engineering and Industry in Nineteenth-Century America. By Patrick M. Malone. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xii + 254 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, i ndex. Cloth, 25.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-8018-9305-6; paper, 978-0-8018-9306-3.
No full textCan Workers Have a Voice? The Politics of Deindustrialization in Pittsburgh. By Dale A. Hathaway. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 232. $29.95.
No full text<i>At the Altar of the Bottom Line: The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century</i> (review)
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