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This site is an attempt at unifying my personal and professional on-line resources. It pulls together alot of disparate information about topics that most people don't usually associate with one another. These are subjects with which I am engaged on a day to day basis, so to me the links seem quite natural. At the very least, I hope that visitors to the site will come across some things that they haven't seen before, and maybe even learn some things that the didn't know. Its definitely a work in progress, so please forgive the pages under construction and the broken links. If you find something that needs fixing, or want to get more information about anything you see on this site, contact me at:



Recent work

Meatpacking Health and Safety - Provides an analysis of the health and safety record of Tyson Fresh Meats in Pasco, WA (read executive summary).

The Economic Impact of the Boston Living Wage Ordinance - One of the first quantitative assessments of the employment impact of city living wage ordinances.

Defining a Global Living Wage - Provides a methodology for defining and measuring a living wage in a global context, with empirical example from Mexico.


Land Distribution in China - Provides the first analysis of changes in rural land distribution during the reform era.

Workplace Transformation - Analyzes the links between workplace transformation and Cumulative Trauma Disorders (CTDs) in this paper.

The Economic Impact of Living Wage Ordinances - Provides a literature review of the existing research on the economic effects of living wage ordinances

 

Mark D. Brenner

I am currently an Assistant Research Professor at the Political Economy Reserach Institute, located at the University of Massachusetts.

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