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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In a new ILR Review book review, Dean Alex Colvin of Cornell ILR School examines Brendan Ballou’s When Companies Run the Courts and how forced arbitration became embedded in American workplaces. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0019... #ILRReview #ForcedArbitration #LaborRelations #WorkersRights
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#CornellILR's Buffalo Co-Lab has received a generous donation from James E. Miller '88 and his partner at Miller Shah LLP, James C. Shah, to fund our High Road Buffalo Fellowship program for the next 5 years. The majority of the funding will subsidize student fellows' salaries. 👏
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Miller Gift to Fund High Road Buffalo Fellowship Program for Five Years
The Buffalo Co-Lab has received a donation from James “Jim” E. Miller to fund its High Road Buffalo Fellowship program for the next five years.
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ilralex.bsky.social @ilralex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Strike data update for Labor Day!
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Re: "future visions of a world without HR people," #CornellILR's JR Keller says: "It feels like that’s almost impossible in reality. Employees want to know that there’s a trusted person with expertise that they can go to...and they’re never going to feel fully confident in having a bot do it.”
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AI Is Giving Your HR Department an Existential Crisis
Human resources professionals are usually the ones handing out pink slips. Now they could be out of work themselves if they don’t rethink their roles.
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ilralex.bsky.social @ilralex.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Congratulations to Jim DelRosso on this very well merited appointment! The Catherwood Library will be in good hands!
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Earlier this month, Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan officially declared May 7 as ILR Day in Buffalo! 🤝 Since the Buffalo Co-Lab’s founding in 1946, #CornellILR has played a vital role in western New York, working in partnership with business, union, government, education and community organizations.
Panel discussion featuring students and alumni from Cornell University ILR School and Buffalo State University, along with ILR Dean Alex Colvin and SUNY Chancellor John B. King, Jr., at an event honoring the ILR School's partnership with business, unions, government and community organizations in Buffalo and western New York State.Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan at an event honoring the ILR School's partnership with business, unions, government and community organizations in Buffalo and western New York State. At the event, Ryan declared May 7 as ILR Day in Buffalo.ILR Dean Alexander Colvin, Buffalo Co-Lab director Cathy Creighton, Buffalo Mayor Sean Ryan and SUNY staff Will Schwartz at an event honoring the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab's partnership with business, unions, government and community organizations in western New York State.SUNY Chancellor John B. King, Jr. speaking at an event honoring the ILR School's partnership with business, unions, government and community organizations in Buffalo and western New York State.
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ilralex.bsky.social @ilralex.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Jerry’s Café, opening in Spring 2027, recently released their menu at a tasting session hosted by Cornell Dining. "It includes items that they have offered at cafés around campus and have proven popular with students, faculty and staff," says #CornellILR dean @ilralex.bsky.social.
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New ILR Café Unveils Proposed Menu
Jerry's, the café in the school of Industrial and Labor Relations, plans to open in early 2027 and unveiled new menu items at a private tasting event on March 11.
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Congratulations to Michael Lovenheim, professor of economics at #CornellILR and in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, who has been appointed the next editor of the Journal of Human Resources (JHR)! Having served as coeditor since 2018, Lovenheim will assume the role of editor on July 1.
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Lovenheim Named Editor of the Journal of Human Resources
Michael Lovenheim, professor of economics at the ILR School and in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, has been appointed the next editor of the Journal of Human Resources.
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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
My book — “TROOP MOVEMENTS” — is due out in September. You can see the description & blurbs — on Bookshop, Am*zon, etc-etc. You can *PRE-ORDER* the book. If anyone may want to assign & teach it — or do a review, or an interview, or an event — please do be in touch! www.amazon.com/Troop-Moveme...
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Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II (Power, Politics, and the World)
Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II (Power, Politics, and the World) [Nagaraja, Tejasvi] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II (Power, Politics, and the World)
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Last week, we welcomed @nyslabor.bsky.social Commissioner Roberta Reardon to #CornellILR! Commissioner Reardon is a 2006 graduate of ILR's Union Leadership Institute and has been a great partner to ILR in our mission of promoting positive labor-management relations in New York State.
ILR School Dean Alexander Colvin with New York State Department of Labor Commissioner Roberta ReardonNew York State Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon visiting the Cornell University ILR SchoolNew York State Department of Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon visiting the Cornell University ILR School, speaking with faculty and staff from the Yang Tan Institute on Disability and Employment.
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Gali Racabi @gracabi.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Join us May 1st-2nd at Cornell University ILR School for a conference on Labor, Discipline, and the Carceral State. Wonderful speakers, beautiful spring in Ithaca, good vibes. events.cornell.edu/event/labor-...
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Labor, Discipline and the Carceral State
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Congratulations, Susanne Bruyère! Read more about our @cornellyti.bsky.social director's influential career and work: www.ilr.cornell.edu/news/faculty...
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ilralex.bsky.social @ilralex.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Congratulations to Adam on this well deserved honor!
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Check out Alex Kowalski's excellent new paper on robots in fulfillment warehouses. We think this is the first published paper that was first work-shopped at Cornell's new Sociology of Organizations, Labor, and Economy Seminar! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Shifting from numerical to narrative-based performance reviews can significantly impact employees’ perceptions of fairness and their likelihood of improving performance based on the feedback, according to research led by Emily Zitek, associate professor of organizational behavior at #CornellILR.
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Narrative-based performance reviews deemed fairest by employees | Cornell Chronicle
Shifting from numerical to narrative-based performance reviews can significantly impact employees’ perceptions of fairness and their likelihood of improving performance based on the feedback, accordin...
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Remembering Nick Salvatore, professor emeritus of global labor and work in #CornellILR, an award-winning historian and teacher, and a lifelong champion for working people. Salvatore, who taught at Cornell for 36 years, died Nov. 29 in Ithaca; he was 82.
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Nick Salvatore, ‘one of our foremost historians,’ dies at 82 | Cornell Chronicle
Nick Salvatore, a professor emeritus in the ILR School, an award-winning historian and teacher and lifelong champion for working people, died on Nov. 29 in Ithaca. He was 82.
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Gali Racabi @gracabi.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Thrilled to share that I’m co-organizing the Columbia–Cornell Political Economy of Work Junior Scholars Workshop; our second year organizing the junior work law scholars.
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Last month, @casssunstein.bsky.social led a timely discussion of the past, present and future of free expression at American universities when he delivered #CornellILR's annual Konvitz Memorial Lecture, titled "Free Speech on Campus."
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ILR Konvitz Memorial Lecture 2025 - Free Speech on Campus
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the ILR School's first day of classes, back on November 5, 1945! Included here are a few photos from our "ILR By the Decade" timeline, which you can view here: www.ilr.cornell.edu/ilr-80-years-de… Happy 80 years, #CornellILR! ❤️
First ILR student cohort posing for a group photo outside Cornell University's Warren Hall on ILR School's first day of classes on November 5, 1945.Quonset huts where the ILR School was temporarily located in the 1940s and 1950s.Construction workers installing the cupola atop King-Shaw Hall in the newly constructed Cornell University ILR School quad, circa 1960s.Two women sitting on a desk and chair in a room with ILR School-related posters on the wall, circa 1970s.
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ilralex.bsky.social @ilralex.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Agreed. U.S. states too.
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
#CornellILR is proud to share that the National Conflict Resolution Service (NCRS) has played an important role in helping keep Broadway’s lights on, through a new collective bargaining agreement between @actorsequity.bsky.social and The Broadway League. Read more: actorsequity.org/news/PR/2025...
Broadway street sign under two One Way signs that point in opposite directions
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Amazon reportedly plans to automate 75% of its operations. #CornellILR's Alex Kowalski says the threat of automation was always lurking, but any really big impacts had been concerns for the more distant future. "This release shows that widespread job loss could happen sooner than anticipated."
Alexander Kowalski, assistant professor of human resource studies at the Cornell University ILR School, says: “While Amazon may be able to replace some workers with machines, these machines are not inexpensive, especially considering what it takes to build new warehouses or retrofit existing ones. Hence, even if Amazon may save on wages when it introduces robots, we shouldn’t overlook the expenses it is accruing from these new technologies.”

“By making lights-out automation its main ambition, Amazon is basically saying it can’t—or won’t—fix the job quality problems that cause so many of its workers to come and go. Instead of trying to redesign work in ways that make people want to stay at Amazon, the company believes it’s easier to transform its entire logistics operations in a way that leaves humans out of the picture.”
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Cass R. Sunstein, one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars, will lead a timely discussion of the past, present and future of free expression at American universities when he delivers #CornellILR's annual Milton R. Konvitz Memorial Lectureship in American Ideals.
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Free speech on campus the focus of Konvitz Lecture | Cornell Chronicle
Cass R. Sunstein, one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars, will lead a discussion of the past, present and future of free expression at American universities when he delivers the Konvitz M...
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🚨The deadline for abstract submissions to the Harry Katz conference & special issue is coming up on October 1. 📚Guest Editors: @ilralex.bsky.social, Ariel Avgar and Danielle van Jaarsveld 📅Conference: @cornellilr.bsky.social April 11–12, 2026 🗒️For more 👉: shorturl.at/ER2XK
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
🚨 New Paper! 🚨 Why do employers violate employment law? Turns out the answer is radically different for small businesses, especially IBIPOC businesses whose marginallization diminishes HR capacity. We find this complicates govt enforcement efforts. Out now in IREL doi.org/10.1111/irel...
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Threats to Legitimacy in Local Employment Law Enforcement Regimes Among Immigrant and Racially Marginalized Small Business Owners
U.S. municipal labor enforcement agencies find they are often inundated with complaints from small, immigrant- or minority-owned firms. This undermines these agencies' efforts to engage in strategic ....
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 04/09/2025
Political Economy of Work Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at Columbia University December 5-6, 2025.  #EconSky #PoliSky #EconConf Proposal deadline 9/15 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The Labor Lab at the Center for Political Economy, Columbia University and Cornell ILR School invite submissions for the Political Economy of Work Junior Scholar Workshop to be held at Columbia University December 5-6, 2025. 

 

Participants will receive feedback on their scholarship from a senior scholar in the field, comments from fellow junior scholars, and advice about career development. Confirmed commentators include: Kate Andrias (law); Brishen Rogers (law); Hiba Hafiz (law); Alex Hertel-Fernandez (political science); Suresh Naidu (economics); and Adam Reich (sociology), with more to be added.  

 

Who Can Apply?

Scholars who write in the field of work and labor, broadly defined, in law, social science (economics, political science, sociology) or history are welcome to apply. Preference will be given to scholars without tenure, including post docs or fellows, but recently tenured scholars are welcome to apply as well. Submissions are also welcome from graduate students or law students interested in academia, as are papers from practitioners, clinicians, and writing faculty.

 

Proposal Requirements

Interested participants should submit a one-page abstract with contact information via this form by September 15 at 5pm EDT.

Please note: Presented papers must be advanced drafts of scholarly work ready for circulation by November 14, 2025.

 

Key Deadlines

September 15, 2025, at 5pm EDT: Deadline for proposal submissions
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Michael Maffie @maffie.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
🚨 I’m excited to announce that, “The Enshittification of Work: Platform Decay and Labour Conditions in the Gig Economy” is now available online ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Enshittification of Work: Platform Decay and Labour Conditions in the Gig Economy
This study investigates the mechanisms by which gig platforms degrade labour conditions over time, building on the concept of platform decay, or ‘enshittification’, initially developed in the context...
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
A new #CornellILR co-authored study shows that home care cooperatives – agencies co-owned and managed by home care workers – have key factors that appear to significantly improve the quality of care for patients. @madelinesterling.bsky.social www.ilr.cornell.edu/news/researc...
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New Research Shows Home Care Cooperative Can Improve Patient Care
Home care cooperatives – agencies co-owned and managed by home care workers – have key factors that appear to significantly improve the quality of care for patients, according to a new study co-author...
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Labor Action Tracker @laboraction.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Do you want to report a #strike or a #protest near you to the Labor Action Tracker? You can do so by clicking on the "Report a Strike" option on our website. Help us map a #picket line close to you.
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Gali Racabi @gracabi.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
📢 CFP: Columbia–Cornell Jr Scholars Workshop on the Political Economy of Work 🗽 Dec 5–6, 2025 in NYC! Open to early-career scholars in law, soc, econ, poli sci, history. Submit 1p abstract by Sept 15 ✅ Feedback + mentoring ✅ Travel/lodging support (if needed) 🔗 forms.gle/vDkCHyenE5yQ...
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Does third party interventions improve the health of bargaining relationships? Bradley Weinberg #queensuniversity shows that earlier procedures such as #conciliation and #mediation are related to a lower likelihood of relationship dissolution than subsequent ones. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Gali Racabi (@gracabi.bsky.social) is one of four Cornell faculty members to win a Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award, which recognizes the sustained and distinguished contributions of tenure-track faculty and senior lecturers to advising undergraduates. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
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Four faculty receive 2025 Carpenter Advising Awards | Cornell Chronicle
Nominations are solicited annually from all members of the academic community, the awards bestowed in recognition of the importance of undergraduate advising.
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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n
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Andrew Wolf @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
How does local place & its socio-political & histories of racism shape gig economy algorithms? Our take out now in @bjireditor.bsky.social "‘Be Your Own Boss?’ Explaining Variation in Worker Response to the Gig Economy's Ideology in the Global North and South" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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‘Be Your Own Boss?’ Explaining Variation in Worker Response to the Gig Economy's Ideology in the Global North and South
The proponents of app-based, algorithmically mediated employment seek to create an easily transferable uniform labour process around the world. These apps classify their workers as independent contra...
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ilralex.bsky.social @ilralex.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Fascinating new research on strategic HR and competitive dynamics in the gig economy from Mike Maffie and Tash Lakhani! Nice research design too, taking advantage of a change in Uber policies. Shows the value of having data collection projects active out in the field at a critical moment.
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Cornell ILR is recruiting a Postdoc in Global Labor and Work - focusing on AI and labor. Deadline May 15, 2025. Please circulate widely! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/program/...
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Cornell University, Global Labor and Work
Job #AJO29869, WDR-00051984 Postdoctoral Associate – Global Labor and Work, ILR Future of Work Program, Global Labor and Work, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Reminder: this year's Konvitz Lecture will take place on March 27 (tomorrow!) at 4:30 p.m. in 423 King-Shaw Hall (in-person) or via Zoom. More details via the link below.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
📢Call for papers for a conference and special issue honoring Harry C. Katz is now open! #⃣ Issue: Labor Relations at a Crossroads: Charting the Course Forward 🗓️Deadline: 1 Oct 2025 📝Editors: Ariel Avgar, @ilralex.bsky.social & Danielle van Jaarsveld 🔍More: shorturl.at/RtkOj
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Erica Groshen @ericagroshen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Here's my take on “The Vital Importance of Good Economic Statistics”—and the threats to them. Listen to a new @econofact.bsky.social podcast: econofact.org/podcast/the-... #econsky #statistics #economicstatistics #BLS #federalstatistics #inflation #jobsday #jobs #data #datascience
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The Vital Importance of Good Economic Statistics | Chats
A discussion with Erica Groshen on the role of the BLS, the importance of good data for decision-making, and concerns about political interference degrading the integrity of government statistics.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Does mandatory #employment #arbitration impact employee rights and remedies? Mark Gough @pennstateuniv.bsky.social shows that employee win rates in arbitration are lower than those found in state and federal #court. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
In this faculty Q&A, learn more about @anriasantiago.bsky.social, assistant professor in the Department of Global Labor and Work at #CornellILR! Anria studies the relationships between social movements, labor unions and political parties in Latin America. www.ilr.cornell.edu/news/faculty...
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Santiago Anria Q&A
Santiago Anria came to the ILR School's Department of Global Labor and Work following an assistant professorship in the Department of Political Science and Latin American Studies at Dickinson College....
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ilralex.bsky.social @ilralex.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Latest strike numbers from the Labor Action Tracker: down from last year’s recent high, but still seeing widespread strike activity - check out the report for all the details!
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Labor Action Tracker @laboraction.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🚨The Labor Action Tracker 2024 Annual Report drops tomorrow at 7am EST!🚨 Tomorrow morning we will be releasing our annual report compiling all of our 2024 work stoppage data - stay tuned to learn more about worker action in the U.S. over the past year!
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Cornell alumna Claire Deng uncovered something unexpected last summer in #CornellILR's Kheel Center: one of only two known transcripts of a Chicago 1957 speech given by Martin Luther King Jr., who had just come to national prominence, emphasizing connections between workers’ rights and civil rights.
Archival photo of Martin Luther King Jr. from the Cornell ILR School's Kheel Center
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Julie Roginsky @julieroginsky.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Big news! My nonprofit Lift Our Voices is launching a corporate rating system this year, so workers can see how transparent their company is about silencing workers. For more, read my op-ed with Gretchen Carlson in Fast Company today. www.fastcompany.com/91245276/lov...
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How transparent is your company? Our index will show which companies silence workers
The LOV index will show which companies use forced arbitration and NDAs to keep employees from talking about discrimination and harassment.
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Today, President Biden will sign a proclamation establishing the Frances Perkins National Monument to honor America’s first woman Cabinet Secretary and the longest-serving Secretary of Labor. Perkins also served as a lecturer and frequent guest at #CornellILR. 1/2 apnews.com/article/bide...htt
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Biden establishes a national monument for Frances Perkins, the 1st female Cabinet secretary
President Joe Biden has signed a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins.
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Usman Liaquat, an ILR Future of Work fellow who joined  #CornellILR's Experimental Psychology and Organizations (ExPO) Lab group this fall, researches how people perceive changes within organizations, specifically around increasing diversity in the workplace. www.ilr.cornell.edu/news/faculty...
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Behavioral Researcher Joins ExPO Lab
Usman Liaquat has joined ILR's Experimental Psychology and Organizations (ExPO) Lab as a Future of Work fellow.
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Labor Action Tracker @laboraction.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Hi Bluesky👋 We are a database of labor strikes and protests in the US, with comprehensive data on strikes since 2021. We'll be posting strike-related news and our monthly and annual reports. See you at the picket line✊
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ILR Labor Action Tracker
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