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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 8d

🚨Our new issue is out with free online access until October 31!

In this issue, authors explore #worker #voice and resistance in #China, impacts of #employer policies in #Germany and the #US and child-related #earnings penalty of mothers in #France.

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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 1d

🚨New article published:
How do #techworkers organize? JS Tan @mitiwer.bsky.social, Natalia Luka @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social and Emily Mazo @columbiauniversity.bsky.social show how periods of workplace activism precede heightened labor activism for tech workers.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 1d

How does the environment for #labor #organizing impact union #elections? Henry Farber @princeton.edu shows that a deteriorating environment will lead #unions not only to contest fewer elections but also focus on larger potential #bargaining units.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 2d

What do #professionals want in terms of #labor unions? Using #union #election reports as evidence, Rachel Aleks
#CornellNolan shows that developing a #campaign #strategy unique to professional #workers' #identity is important.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 3d

Does low wealth constrain long-distance #migration? Peter McHenry #williamandmary shows that differential #wealth holdings do not explain why #minority groups and the less-educated are unlikely to undertake long-distance moves.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 8d

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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you for your feedback and repost! The article is about how the introduction of robots lead workers to find strategies for staying afloat. We wanted people to check out the article and it looks like telepathic androids did the trick🙂. But seriously, we will work on finding great pictures.

ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 8d

How does #state change its role in industrial relations? Using France as the case, Bruno Amable #PSE argues that the Right reformed labor law whereas the Left relied on decentralized bargaining with the social partners.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 10d

How does #austerity impact #gender equality? Jill Rubery
#ManchesterUniversity shows that women face cuts in #employment opportunities in high skilled and low skilled #jobs as well as decline in publicly funded care facilities as a result of austerity measures.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 10d

Is #credit status a good signal of #worker #productivity? Andrew Weaver #MIT shows that the character-related portion of credit status is not a significant predictor of worker productivity.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 14d

Where do workers shift when they lose their jobs to #automation? Giuseppe Di Giacomo and Benjamin Lerch
#USI_university show that show that 8% of workers enroll in college, about 10% claim disability benefits, and nearly 40% retire early.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 16d

🚨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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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 18d

Do employers prefer #RemoteJobs? Piotr Lewandowski and coauthors #IBSWarsaw how that only employers with positive views on remote work productivity and high-quality talent management value remote work in the same way workers do.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 21d

How does increased worker #voice benefit #wages? Dylan Nelson @uofillinois.bsky.social and
@natewilmers.bsky.social @mitsloan.bsky.social show that worker voice pays earnings premium that is attributable to increased #productivity and greater worker bargaining #power.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 23d

Read Francis Kuriakose's review of Max Papadantonakis'
#CSUMB new book published by @templeunivpress.bsky.social that demonstrates how highly #skilled tech developers face #precarity due to systemic #inequities and #technological change in the #USA.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 28d

Explore Xinming Deng's (@michiganstateu.bsky.social)
review of Ya-Wen Lei's new book @princetonupress.bsky.social that examines China's digital development and #automation in a labor intensive context.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · Sep 10

What is the impact of holding multiple #jobs for a long time? Johanna Muffert and Regina T. Riphahn @fau.de
show that beneficial long-term effects are largest for disadvantaged groups such as #women, those with low #earnings or low #education.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · Sep 9

Read Anh Dao Truc Lam's #LERIllinois book review of
@ericblanc.bsky.social's #RutgersUniversity new book
@ucpress.bsky.social that argues how worker-to-worker #unionism led to a resurgence of the labor movement in the United States in recent times.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · Aug 27

How do #earning differences between organizations affect the provision of employer-led #training? Christian Pfeifer
@leuphana.bsky.social shows that firms with larger intra-firm #wage compression are more likely to cover all direct and indirect training #costs.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · Aug 25

What is the state of employer-paid #training in the US?
Jeffrey Waddoups @unlv.edu shows that there is a 28% decline in the incidence of training between 2001-2009 and the pattern was evident across occupation, education, age, job-tenure, and demographic groups.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · Aug 21

His prize-winning article “Top-Down and Bottom-Up Formalization: Waste Pickers’ Struggles for Labor Rights in São Paulo and Bogotá" was published in the ILR Review.
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Top-Down and Bottom-Up Formalization: Waste Pickers’ Struggles for Labor Rights in São Paulo and Bogotá - Manuel Rosaldo, 2024

Many labor scholars and practitioners see the regulation of informal work as necessary to protect the world’s most vulnerable workers from market predation. Thi...

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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · Aug 21

🏆Congratulations to Manuel Rosaldo @pennstateuniv.bsky.social for winning The Distinguished Scholarly Article Award 2025 presented by the
@asanews.bsky.social Section on #Labor and Labor Movements!

ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · Aug 20

Is transnational regulation effective? Matthew Amengual
@ox.ac.uk and Laura Chirot #MIT show that transnational initiatives are effective when #unions mobilize to activate state institutions and transnational regulators resolve ambiguities.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · Aug 19

How is US unemployment rates related to #immigration work authorization outcomes? Ben Rissing @cornellilr.bsky.social and Emilio Castilla #MITSloan show that immigration approvals are less likely when unemployment is high only when such evaluations are audited.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · Aug 19

How do employer control practices lead to worker #resistance? Using the Chinese case, Yuequan Guois @wzb.bsky.social
shows that contradictory work control practices create the basis, grievance, and mentality for workers’ acts of resistance.
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨Our August issue of the ILR Review is now published with free online access until August 24.

This issue covers policy-relevant topics from #workersafety and #hiring #discrimination to #childcare, #education, and #training policy.

Read the issue here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/ilra/78/4