Dan Swinney’s paper describing MR’s Theory of Change for policy and development leaders. A history and framework of MR’s lessons learned as a blueprint for a new paradigm of development that can build communities.
This essay outlines MR’s concept of a prototype in Career and Technical Education, Manufacturing Connect (MC). MC is guided by a framework seeking to expand Inclusion and Industry 4.0.
A National Survey of Literature and Practice and a Preliminary Assessment of the Successorship Needs and Plans of Chicago’s Aging Manufacturing Entrepreneurs
Erica Swinney’s case study on the origins, development, features and impact of the Manufacturing Connect program. Published in the Journal of School and Society’s issue on exploring the future of vocational education
The authors wrote this paper as a contribution to The Next System Project to propose a concrete application of next system values and principles.
MR’s proposal to the MacArthur Foundation . We share this proposal to serve as a template for what scale of the kind of programming required to build an inclusive manufacturing ecosystem could look like.
A Report for the
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
Manufacturing Renaissance’s Early Warning Systems framework was developed in response to rapid deindustrialization throughout the US in the 1980s and 1990s
Building the Bridge to the High Road is Manufacturing Renaissance executive director Dan Swinney’s ground-breaking book introducing the High Road, a new strategic development vision
Distinctive from the Alinsky model, this is Dan Swinney’s approach to organizing. The “Development Model of Organizing” is about how to build a pool of leaders in context of pursuing a strategic vision for development, contending for leadership and influence in dynamic times.
Published under the Midwest Center for Labor Research and the Center for Labor and Community Research, LRR was a journal which published 24 issues serving as a forum for analysis, criticism, and strategic thinking on the American labor movement in the late 20th century.
by Grace Western, Daniella Zessoules, Nyanya Browne, Bethel Cole-Smith, William Spriggs, PhD
