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Virginia Doellgast

@vdoellgast.bsky.social
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Professor ILR School - Global Labor and Work. Unions & AI in telecoms, game development, ICT industry. Co-Editor ILR Review.

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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
New report/working paper for the ILO - Global Case Studies of Social Dialogue on AI and Algorithmic Management. With Shruti Appalla, Dina Ginzburg, Jeonghun Kim, and Wen Li Thianhttps://www.ilo.org/publications/global-case-studies-social-dialogue-ai-and-algorithmic-management
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Global case studies of social dialogue on AI and algorithmic management
This working paper explores how social dialogue is shaping the use of AI and algorithmic tools in workplaces across five continents. Through case studies, it highlights how worker representatives are ...
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Today at 10am EDT! @sasemeeting.bsky.social Michèle Lamont and Wolfgang Streeck - Democracy after globalism: States, social movements, and recognition claims. 10:00-11:30 EDT/ 16-17:30 CET - Wed, 2 July virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/37937/...
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The Social Organization of Ideas: Translating Research into Labor Policy - Not-to-be-missed @sasemeeting.bsky.social Featured Panel Imran Chowdhury, Chair - with Pierre-Antoine Harvey, Thea Lee, @thorsten-schulten.bsky.social, and Bart Vanhercke virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/37937/...
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Polanyi after Globalism - with Marguerite Mendell, @dorobohle.bsky.social, Zachariah Mampilly, and Andreas Novy. Don't miss this featured panel at @sasemeeting.bsky.social 15:00-16:30 Friday, 11 July 2025 - Room 517C Link to program: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/37937/...
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
AI Value Chains: from Exploitation to Organizing -- with @geoplace.bsky.social, ‪@martinkrz.bsky.social, and Uma Rani Amara - Featured panel @sasemeeting.bsky.social 08:30-10:00 Friday, 11 July, 2025 - Room 517C virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/37937/...
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Democracy Challenged @democracychall.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Save the date! @aidanregan.bsky.social will moderate a round table discussion at this year's @sasemeeting.bsky.social conference. Participation is possible online.
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
@sasemeeting.bsky.social featured (virtual) panel with Michèle Lamont and Wolfgang Streeck - moderated by @aidanregan.bsky.social. Democracy after globalism: States, social movements, and recognition claims. 10:00-11:30 EDT/ 16-17:30 CET - Wed, 2 July virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/37937/...
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
@sasemeeting.bsky.social featured (virtual) panel with Michèle Lamont and Wolfgang Streeck - moderated by @aidanregan.bsky.social. Democracy after globalism: States, social movements, and recognition claims. 10:00-11:30 EDT/ 16-17:30 CET - Wed, 2 July virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/37937/...
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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"Workers are usually not seeking to stop the march of technology," noted @vdoellgast.bsky.social, who is the Anne Evans Estabrook Professor of Employment Relations and Dispute Resolution at #CornellILR. "They just want to have some control." Read more: www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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US labor unions fight to contain AI disruption
As artificial intelligence threatens to upend entire sectors of the economy, American labor unions are scrambling to protect workers, demand corporate transparency, and rally political support—an uphi...
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
sure - I added you to 'part 2': go.bsky.app/6t5fHp4
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Reimagining Solidarity in Israel/Palestine - with Arees Bishara, Assaf Bondy, Walid Habbas, Jonathan Preminger, and Ibrahim Shikaki. Featured panel at the upcoming @sasemeeting.bsky.social annual meeting: sase.org/event/2025-m...
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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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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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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Great beach read: part memoire, part call to arms by Orry Mittenmayer - former app-based delivery worker and works council + union organizer in Cologne.
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
New paper in HRMJ: Unions help make remote work more fair - based on research in the US, Canada, and Germany: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Last was @etui.bsky.social's conference. I recommend session 1 w/Andrea Bassanini, @valepuligna.bsky.social, Uma Rani, & last session w/Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau, @vdoellgast.bsky.social, @siborelli.bsky.social Day 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iASg... Day 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PskB... (11/11)
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Future of work: reclaiming the value of work in the digital economy (day 1)
YouTube video by ETUI
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
If the EU Court cancels the minimum wage directive, the popular legitimacy of the EU will be in tatters. Workers will not understand why the many business-friendly EU governance prescriptions on wage cuts are legal while a labour-friendly directive on adequate minimum wages is not.
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Washington Center for Equitable Growth @equitablegrowth.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
AI is transforming work, but workers shouldn’t be left behind. Stronger protections, human oversight, and collective bargaining can ensure AI benefits everyone—not just employers. Lessons from Germany show how worker voice shapes better workplaces. #FutureOfWork equitablegrowth.org/boosting-u-s...
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Boosting U.S. worker power and voice in the AI-enabled workplace
Policies strengthening worker rights are crucial to boosting a high-road approach to an AI-enabled workplace that complements rather than replaces worker skills.
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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New paper from @vdoellgast.bsky.social & Nell Geiser from @cwaunion.bsky.social: “policies strengthening worker rights and power are crucial to encouraging a high-road approach to AI that complements rather than replaces workforce skills.”
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Join our Jan 29 webinar on 'Labor Union Responses to AI' - @cornellilr.bsky.social with speakers from the @cwaunion.bsky.social Research Dept, Meow Wolf Workers Collective, and New York Times Tech Guild. www.ilr.cornell.edu/carow/events...
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AI and the Future for Workers: Labor Union Responses to Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is being adopted across sectors, with profound implications for workers. Join us for a conversation with researchers and organizers from the Cornell School of Industrial Labor ...
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Join our Jan 29 webinar on 'Labor Union Responses to AI' - @cornellilr.bsky.social with speakers from the @cwaunion.bsky.social Research Dept, Meow Wolf Workers Collective, and New York Times Tech Guild. www.ilr.cornell.edu/carow/events...
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AI and the Future for Workers: Labor Union Responses to Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is being adopted across sectors, with profound implications for workers. Join us for a conversation with researchers and organizers from the Cornell School of Industrial Labor ...
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Engage with this fascinating new work on unpaid labor @valepuligna.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social @oxfordunipress.bsky.social that was featured in our book review forum. A book presentation at follows on 29th January. blog.oup.com/2025/01/beyo...
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
okay, done!
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
How do labor unions impact workplace safety? Ling Li and coauthors show that unionization decreased the case distribution of accidents below 2 cases per 100 full-time equivalent workers annually in larger bargaining units and manufacturing establishments. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
What are the causes of #work #intensification? Francis Green and coauthors show that #technology, organizational change, upskilling requirements and self-employment can all account for increasing work intensification. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
How can the state facilitate workforce development? Jenna Myers and Katherine Kellogg @mitsloan.bsky.social show that state actors can structure provisional goal setting and revision, encourage experimentation, and frame coordination to inspire collective action. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Read Stephen J Frenkel's review of Wolfgang Streeck's new book @versobooks.bsky.social that provokes us into thinking how nation #states can take back control from centralized #institutions and reverse the nefarious impacts of #neoliberal thinking. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
How can we reverse the plateauing of female labor force participation & slowing down of their occupational and wage convergence with men? Francine Blau @cornellilr.bsky.social suggests that policy initiatives to address work–family issues & labor market discrimination helps. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Is there a gendered response to technological development? Using the case of fracking, Elizabeth U. Cascio & Ayushi Narayan show that it has significantly increased relative demand for less-educated male labor and increased high school dropout rates of male teens. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Here is part 2: go.bsky.app/6t5fHp4
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
As there are more folks on Bluesky now, I’m reposting my starter pack on labor research and policy. Part 2 will be in the comments. go.bsky.app/55FK3m7
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Okay, you’re in part 2
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Okay, you’re added to part 2.
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
You were already in there… in part 2
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Sure! I’ve just added you to part 2.
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Indeed-looks like a great book.
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Thanks! Both look great…
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year! Taking stock of books read… by way of asking for recommendations for 2025 reading. Fiction, biography, history, social science all welcome.
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Today is the deadline - submit your papers & panels to the SASE 2025 conference in Montreal. @sasemeeting.bsky.social
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Danial Lashkari @ldaniall.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
RA Hire Alert: I'm hiring an RA to work with me on the economics of technological growth, innovation, & AI. The position is based at MIT (FutureTech). Please spread the word: futuretech.mit.edu/opportunitie...
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FutureTech
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ETUI @etui.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
🗞️ New issue of #HesaMag just out! 🤖 How can we navigate the #AI revolution in the world of work, and what are the implications for occupational health & safety? Follow the link to read it and subscribe to future issues! 🔗 etui.org/Z2A
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
And please remember to submit your panel & paper proposals by December 16 - one week to go.
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
with books by @martinkrz.bsky.social @geoplace.bsky.social @dorobohle.bsky.social and many more...
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I've been putting together a reading list of books by featured speakers across our panels and book salons at SASE Montreal 2025 - @sasemeeting.bsky.social . You can find my working list here: www.betterworldbooks.com/My/Wishlist?...
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Wishlist | Better World Books
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
What role does #employer involvement play in workers' vocational training? Amanda Chuan and Christian Lyhne Ibsen show that as age increases, worker adaptability with #skills shows a steep decline in systems with high employer involvement in vocational training. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Read this excellent book by Debbie Goldman - Historian and former CWA Research Director and Telecommunications Policy Director: @cwaunion.bsky.social
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ETUI @etui.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
go.bsky.app/PB949GM
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Explore Kevin Woojin Lee's review of Michel Anteby's new book 'The Interloper' @princetonupress.bsky.social where he unpacks how ethnographers studying work and organizations can negotiate and understand resistance from participants as a generative part of research. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
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ETUI @etui.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
ETUI researcher Marouane Laabbas-el-Guennouni will be presenting online at this hybrid conference on the topic of #worker protection through #EcoSocial dialogue 🤝🌱 More info here 🔗 cupe3903.org/news/past-present-and-future-of-green-jobs/
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Past, Present, and Future of Green Jobs: Policies, Strategies, and Alternatives - CUPE 3903
Check out the following information about this upcoming conference on December 6th and 7th that CUPE 3903 is sponsoring, and make sure to register and fill out their contact form! […]
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SASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics @sasemeeting.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
#Reminder of the new award from SASE Network E: the Sabina Avdagic Early Career Scholar Prize for Best Paper in Comparative Capitalism, in memory of the late Dr. Sabina Avdagic **To be eligible you must submit a Network E paper by Dec 16 🔗 sase.org/.../announce...
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Announcement: Sabina Avdagic Early Career Scholar Prize for Best Paper in Comparative Capitalism - SASE
In memory of the late Dr. Sabina Avdagic, the SASE Network E (Comparative Capitalisms) is pleased to announce the establishment of the Sabina Avdagic Early Career Scholar Prize for Best Paper in Compa...
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