Perspectives Online Companion - Spring 2012: Number 13

From the Editor

LERA Members on the Air and More

To encourage positive change and understanding of topics in the labor and employment relations realm, LERA members have participated in radio interviews on the University of Illinois WILL public radio's Focus 580 show with host David Inge. While some of the interviews took place in 2011, the topics and insights are evergreen. During each radio show, the guests entertained questions from listeners (via phone and email).

This issue of the Online Companion provides summaries of four of these interviews. Keep the conversations on these important topics going by posting your comments on the Employment Policy Research Network web site or sending your suggestions for future articles in Perspectives on Work to scass@mit.edu.

This issue also includes a brief write-up on a panel of sustainable entrepreneurship experts held at MIT in March 2012 organized by EPRN Sustainable entrepreneurship with a definite good-jobs edge is the newest EPRN research topic. It’s the brainchild of past LERA president Tom Kochan. Development of the topic is being supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the world’s largest foundation dedicated to entrepreneurship and one of the biggest foundations in the U.S. You’ll find much more on sustainable entrepreneurship including more on this expert panel, in the fall/winter issue of Perspectives on Work. Please look for your copy in September.

Finally, we have three thoughtful book reviews prepared by young LERA scholars.

Susan Cass