Objectives
The course has several content and
performance objectives. By the end of the quarter, a successful
participant should be able to:
1) explain changes
in the basis for economic activity, and their implications for
a)
urban and regional economic policy,
b) education and
workforce development, and
c) labor
organization;
2) describe recent
research in these areas; and
3) articulate a
personal research agenda and some potential methods of empirical
research (this agenda does not need to be squarely centered on the
subject matter of the course, but does need to be informed by the
course material – this depends on the student’s research trajectory).
Logistics
The instructor is Professor
James W. Harrington,
who can be reached at jwh@u.washington.edu
or 206-616-3821; office is Smith Hall 416C (office hours are
Wednesdays 1:30 - 2:20 and 5:20 - 6:20, and happily by appointment).
We will meet from 9:30 a.m. to
12:20 p.m. each Wednesday of the quarter in Smith Hall 409.
For weeks 2-8,
the format will entail
* asking questions
and making arguments that each student has prepared in writing,
relevant to the assigned reading, and
* a roundtable of
theoretical, methodological, and/or empirical difficulties each student
is having in her/his own research (or, for students in the first year
of a graduate program, his/her research agenda setting).
For weeks 9 & 10, the format will center on issues students face in
developing their papers or other deliverable. We’ll select a time
in week 11 (exam week) for presentations.
The course is open to all graduate students with background in social
science.
Expectations
and Grading
Each student is expected to:
• Prepare brief
written statements and questions (~500 words) each week (30
points)
• Be able to discuss
assigned material each week (18 points)
• Make and report
progress each week on his/her own research or agenda setting (10
points)
• Provide a plan for
her/his own deliverable (paper, article, dissertation,
chapter...) by [date TBD] (7 points)
• Produce and
present a self-defined deliverable by [date TBD] (35
points)
Schedule
and Readings (by week)
1. INTRODUCTIONS
- Come to the first session with
as clear a statement as possible of your current background, stage in
your program, and the deliverable (project) for this course that will
meet your purposes.
2. GEOGRAPHIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND
LEARNING
- Howells, J. 2000.
Knowledge, innovation and location. Ch. 4 in Knowledge, Space, Economy, ed. by
J.R. Bryson, P.W. Daniels, N. Henry, and J. Pollard.
London: Routledge. UW Libraries
e-reserve under GEOG 566.
- Storper, M. 2002.
Institutions of the learning economy. Ch. 7 in Innovation and Social Learning:
Institutional Adaptation in an Era of Technological Change, ed.
by M.S. Gertler and D.A. Wolfe. Basingstoke, Hampshire:
Palgrave Macmillan. UW Libraries
e-reserve under GEOG 566.
- Capello, R. and A.
Faggian. 2005. Collective learning and relational capital
in local innovation processes. Regional
Studies 39(1): 75-81. UW Libraries
electronic journal.
- Hägerstrand, T.
1965. Quantitative techniques for analysis of the spread of
information and technology. Ch. 12 (pp. 244-280) in Education and Economic Development,
ed. by C.A. Anderson and M.J. Bowman. Chicago: Aldine Publishing
Company. UW Libraries
e-reserve under GEOG 566.
3. NEXT-GENERATION REGIONAL
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY
Clarke, S.E. and Gaile, G.L.
1998. The Work of Cities.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Available
@ UBookstore. Hard-copy reserve @
Odegaard Library, under GEOG 498.
Introduction
Chapter 3: The era of
entrepreneurial cities [first, second, and third-generation urban ED
policy]
Chapter 6: Different paths:
Syracuse and Tacoma
Chapter 7: The fourth wave:
global-local links and human capital
Appendix A: Spatial statistics:
methodology for explicitly incorporating and controlling regional
effects
4. UNDERSTANDING THE NEW LABOR
MARKET
5. WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
6. EDUCATION POLICY
- Goetz, S.J. and A.
Rupasingha. 2003. The returns on higher education:
estimates for the 48 contiguous states. Economic Development Quarterly
17(4): 337-351. UW Libraries
electronic journal.
- Gottleib, P.D. and M.
Fogarty. 2003. Educational attainment and metropolitan
growth. Economic Development
Quarterly 17(4): 325-336. UW Libraries
electronic journal.
- Goldstein, H. and J.
Drucker. 2006. The economic development impacts of
universities on regions: do size and distance matter? Economic Development Quarterly
20(1): 22-43. UW Libraries
electronic journal.
7. INTERMEDIARIES
- Giloth, R.P. , ed.
2004. Workforce Intermediaries
for the Twenty-First Century. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press. Hard-copy
reserve @ Odegaard Library, under GEOG 566
- Osterman, P. Ch.
6: Labor market intermediaries in the modern labor market.
- Leete, L., et al. Ch.
11: Labor market intermediaries in old and new economies: a
survey of worker experiences in Milwaukee and Silicon Valley.
- Kazis, R. Ch. 3:
What do workforce intermediaries do?
8. GLOBALIZED LABOR
- Herod, A. 2001. Labor
Geographies: Workers and the
Landscapes of Capitalism. New York: Guilford
Press. Hard-copy
reserve @ Odegaard Library, under GEOG 566
- Chapter 2: Toward a
labor geography.
- Chapter 8: Thinking
locally, acting globally? The practice of international labor
solidarity and the geography of the global economy.
- MacDonald, I.T.
2003. NAFTA and the emergence of continental labor
cooperation. The American
Review of Canadian Studies 33(2): 173-196. UW Libraries
electronic journal.
- Saxenian, A. 2006.
[selected chapters from] The New
Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy.
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. Hard-copy
reserve @ Odegaard Library, under GEOG 566
9. ASSESSING THE
STATE
OF THE FIELD
copyright
James W. Harrington, Jr.
revised 22 April 2008