Joan Fitzgerald is Associate Professor and Director of the Law, Policy, and Society Program at Northeastern University. She is coauthor of Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb.

"Joan Fitzgerald's Moving Up in the New Economy is a must-read for policy-makers and scholars seeking solutions to the problems of low-wage work, precarious employment, and dead-end jobs in today's labor market. Fitzgerald demonstrates that employers and policy-makers can create career ladders that would enable those who enter the labor market at the bottom to gain the skills, training, credentials, and experience to move up and out of the low-wage cycle. The book describes, in detail, a cornucopia of programs, organizations, intermediaries, and initiatives that are creating career ladders in the fields of health care, child care, education, biotechnology, and manufacturing. For activists, policy-makers, and employers, the wealth of evidence provides a much-needed guide for the creation of pathways of mobility in the new workplace."

Joan Fitzgerald is Associate Professor and Director of the Law, Policy, and Society Program at Northeastern University. She is coauthor of Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb.

"Joan Fitzgerald's Moving Up in the New Economy is a must-read for policy-makers and scholars seeking solutions to the problems of low-wage work, precarious employment, and dead-end jobs in today's labor market. Fitzgerald demonstrates that employers and policy-makers can create career ladders that would enable those who enter the labor market at the bottom to gain the skills, training, credentials, and experience to move up and out of the low-wage cycle. The book describes, in detail, a cornucopia of programs, organizations, intermediaries, and initiatives that are creating career ladders in the fields of health care, child care, education, biotechnology, and manufacturing. For activists, policy-makers, and employers, the wealth of evidence provides a much-needed guide for the creation of pathways of mobility in the new workplace."

Joan Fitzgerald is Associate Professor and Director of the Law, Policy, and Society Program at Northeastern University. She is coauthor of Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb.

"Joan Fitzgerald's Moving Up in the New Economy is a must-read for policy-makers and scholars seeking solutions to the problems of low-wage work, precarious employment, and dead-end jobs in today's labor market. Fitzgerald demonstrates that employers and policy-makers can create career ladders that would enable those who enter the labor market at the bottom to gain the skills, training, credentials, and experience to move up and out of the low-wage cycle. The book describes, in detail, a cornucopia of programs, organizations, intermediaries, and initiatives that are creating career ladders in the fields of health care, child care, education, biotechnology, and manufacturing. For activists, policy-makers, and employers, the wealth of evidence provides a much-needed guide for the creation of pathways of mobility in the new workplace."