CUPPA | UPP Faculty - Nik Theodore

Nik Theodore Ph.D.,
Associate Professor & CUED Director

Nik Theodore is Director of the Center for Urban Economic Development and an Assistant Professor in the Urban Planning and Policy Program.

BA, Macalester College (1986); MUPP, University of Illinois at Chicago (1989); PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago (2000).

Courses

Research

Economic development, labor markets, urban policy.

Publications

N. Brenner, J. Peck, and N. Theodore (2011) “¿Y después de la neoliberalización? Estrategias metodológicas para la investigación de las transformaciones regulatorias contemporáneas.” Urban NS1: 21-40.*

N. Theodore, J. Peck, and N. Brenner (2011) “Neoliberal Urbanism: Cities and the Rule of Markets,” in G. Bridge and S. Watson, eds., A New Companion to the City, 15-25. London: Blackwell.

N. Theodore (2010) Realigning Labor: Toward a Framework for Collaboration between Unions and Day Labor Worker Centers. Neighborhood Funders Group.

N. Brenner, J. Peck, and N. Theodore (2010) “After Neoliberalization?” Globalizations 7(3): 327-345.*

Doussard, M., J. Peck, and N. Theodore. 2009. After Deindustrialization: Uneven Growth and Economic Inquality in ‘Postindustrial’ Chicago. Economic Geography 85 (2): 183-207. Publisher's link.

Theodore, Nik, J. Peck, and N. Brenner. 2009. Urbanismo Neoliberal: La Ciudad y el Imperio de los Mercados. Temas Sociales 66: 1-12. [Santiago, Chile]

Theodore, Nik, A. Valenzuela, and E. Meléndez. 2008. Day Labor Worker Centers: New Approaches to Protecting Labor Standards in the Informal Economy. UIC Center for Urban Economic Development.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/uclairle/Valenzuela12/

Brenner, N., J. Peck, and N. Theodore. 2008. City as Policy Lab. Area #6.
http://www.areachicago.org/p/issues/city-as-lab/city-policy-lab/

Theodore, Nik, A. Valenzeula, E. Meléndez, and A.L. Gonzalez. 2008. Day Labor and Workplace Abuses in the Residential Construction Industry: Conditions in the Washington, DC Region. The Gloves Off Economy: Workplace Standards at the Bottom of America’s Labor Market, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. pp. 91-109.

Peck, J. and N. Theodore. 2008. Carceral Chicago: Making the Ex-offender Employability Crisis. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32 (2): 251-281. Publisher's link.

H. Cordero-Guzman, N. Martin, V. Quiroz-Becerra, and N. Theodore. 2008. Voting with their Feet: Nonprofit Organizations and Immigrant Mobilization. American Behavioral Scientist 52 (4): 598-617. Publisher's link.

* J. Peck, N. Theodore, and K. Ward (2005) "Constructing markets for temporary labour: employment liberalisation and the internationalisation of the staffing industry," Global Networks 5(1): 1-26

* S. Srivastava and N. Theodore (2005) "A Long Jobless Recovery: IT Labor Markets after the Bursting of the High-Tech Bubble," Working USA 9(1).

* J. Peck and N. Theodore (2004) "Cycles of Contingency: The Temporary Staffing Industry and Labor Market Adjustment in the U.S." in J. Burgess and J. Connell, eds., International Developments in Temporary Work . London: Routledge.

* N. Theodore (2004) "Made in America: Discourses of Labor Market Flexibility and Workfare" in V. Eick, M. Mayer, and J. Sambale, eds., Moving from Welfare to Work: Nonprofits and the Workfare State in Berlin and Los Angeles , pp. 21-33. Berlin: Freie Universität.

* C. Mehta and N. Theodore (2004) "Revolving Doors: Temp Agencies as Accelerators of Churning in Low-Wage Labor Markets" in L. Simmons, ed., Welfare, the Working Poor, and Labor , pp. 90-104. Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe.

* N. Theodore (2003) "Political Economies of Day Labor: Regulation and Restructuring of Chicago's Contingent Labor Markets," Urban Studies 40(9): 1811-1827.

* C. Mehta and N. Theodore (2003) "Organizing Temps: Representational Rights and Employers' Responsibilities Under Sturgis/Jeffboat ," Working USA 7(3): 21-43.

* N. Brenner and N. Theodore, eds (2002) Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in North America and Western Europe. London: Blackwell.

* N. Theodore (2003) "Political Economies of Day Labor: Regulation and Restructuring of Chicago's Contingent Labor Markets," Urban Studies 40(2): in press.

* C. Mehta and N. Theodore (2002) "Paying the Price for Flexibility: Unemployment Insurance and the Temporary Staffing Industry," Working USA 6(3): in press.

* N. Theodore and J. Peck (2002) "The Temporary Staffing Industry: Growth Imperatives and Limits to Contingency," Economic Geography 78(4): 463-493.

* N. Brenner and N. Theodore (2002) "Cities and the Geographies of 'Actually Existing Neoliberalism' " Antipode 33(3): 349-379.

* N. Brenner and N. Theodore (2002) "From the 'New Localism' to the Spaces of Neoliberalism," Antipode 33(3): 341-347.

* J. Peck and N. Theodore (2002) "Temped out? Industry Rhetoric, Labor Regulation, and Economic Restructuring in the Temporary Staffing Business," Economic and Industrial Democracy 23(2): 143-175.

* R. Weber and N. Theodore (2002) "Introduction: Focus Section on Low-Wage Labor Markets," Economic Development Quarterly 16(4): 291-293.

* N. Theodore and J. Peck (2001) "Searching for 'Best Practice' in Welfare-to-Work: The Means, the Method and the Message," Policy & Politics 28(1): 81-94.

* J. Peck and N. Theodore (2001) "Exporting Workfare/Importing Welfare-to Work: Exploring the Politics of Third Way Policy Transfer," Political Geography 20: 427-460.

* J. Peck and N. Theodore (2001) "Contingent Chicago: Restructuring the Spaces of Temporary Labor," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 25(3): 471-496.

* N. Theodore (2001) "Welfare Reform, Work Requirements and the Geography of Unemployment," Urban Geography 22(5): 490-492.

* N. Theodore and R. Weber (2001) "Changing Work Organization in Small Manufacturers: Challenges for Economic Development," Economic Development Quarterly 15(4): 367-379.

* J. Peck and N. Theodore (2000) "Beyond 'Employability' " Cambridge Journal of Economics 24(6): 729-749.

* C. Mehta and N. Theodore (2000) "Winning Union Representation for Temps: An Analysis of the NLRB's M.B. Sturgis and Jeffboat Division Ruling," Working USA 4(3): 37-58.

* J. Peck and N. Theodore (2000) "Work First: Welfare-to-Work and the Regulation of Contingent Labour Markets," Cambridge Journal of Economics 24(1): 119-138.

* N. Theodore and J. Peck (1999) "Welfare-to-Work: National Problems, Local Solutions?" Critical Social Policy 19(4): 485-510.

* J. Peck and N. Theodore (1999) "Otrabalho Eventual: Crescimento e Reestruturação da Indústria de Empregos Temporários em Chicago," Revista Latinamericana ds Estudios del Trabajo 5(10): 135-159.

* N. Theodore and S. Salmon (1999) "Globalising Capital, Localising Labour: The Discursive Manipulation of Scale in Philips' Struggle for Corporate Profitability," Space and Polity 3(2):153-169.

* J. Peck and N. Theodore (1998) "The Business of Contingent Work: Growth and Restructuring in Chicago's Temporary Employment Industry," Work, Employment and Society 12(4): 655-674.

* N. Theodore and V.L. Carlson (1998) "Targeting Job Opportunities: Developing Measures of Local Employment," Economic Development Quarterly 12(2): 137-149.

* V.L. Carlson and N. Theodore (1997) "Employment Availability for Entry-Level Workers: An Examination of the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis in Chicago," Urban Geography 18(3): 228-243. * N. Theodore (1995) "Measuring the Impact of Set-Aside Programs on the Minority Business Sector," International Journal of Public Administration 18(7): 1115-1140.

Contact
theodore@uic.edu
Room 238
312-355-1340; 996-8378

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