Mike Locker

The Chicago Manufacturing Renaissance initiative and the organization behind its creation, the Center for Labor and Community Research, will be the subject of our next Field Guide to Investing in a Regenerative Economy. After having been written off as a declining, noncompetitive sector, manufacturing is now rising on the radar screens of policymakers, social justice advocates, and a new breed of environmentalists who see it as both a catalyst for economic revival in America and as offering the solution to many of our ecological and societal ills.     

As part of our research for the upcoming field study we stopped by the offices of Locker Associates in lower Manhattan, just a few blocks from Zuccotti Park.  Mike Locker is a long-time advisor to manufacturing companies and labor on corporate restructuring and buyouts, and has conducted hundreds of feasibility studies for troubled companies and industries over the years.