@ilralex.bsky.social
Congratulations to Adam on this well deserved honor!
Congratulations to #CornellILR's Adam Seth Litwin, who has been named the Stephen H. Weiss Junior Fellow for 2026! 👏 The fellowship honors tenured associate professors who, in addition to being successful early-career researchers, have a record of commitment to undergraduate teaching and mentoring.
February 2, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Congratulations to Adam on this well deserved honor!
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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!
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We think this is the first published paper that was first work-shopped at Cornell's new Sociology of Organizations, Labor, and Economy Seminar!
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January 6, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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...
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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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.
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...
news.cornell.edu
January 5, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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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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.
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.
news.cornell.edu
December 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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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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.
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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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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."
ILR Konvitz Memorial Lecture 2025 - Free Speech on Campus
YouTube video by Cornell ILR
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November 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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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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: https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ilr-80-years-decade
Happy 80 years, #CornellILR! ❤️
Included here are a few photos from our "ILR By the Decade" timeline, which you can view here: https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ilr-80-years-decade
Happy 80 years, #CornellILR! ❤️
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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: https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ilr-80-years-decade
Happy 80 years, #CornellILR! ❤️
Included here are a few photos from our "ILR By the Decade" timeline, which you can view here: https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ilr-80-years-decade
Happy 80 years, #CornellILR! ❤️
Agreed. U.S. states too.
Federal government plans to follow Ontario’s lead, prohibit non-competition clauses in employment contracts.
The rest of country should similarly ban non-competes. As I explain in this article, most non-compete clauses are illegal anyways and they are bad policy:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The rest of country should similarly ban non-competes. As I explain in this article, most non-compete clauses are illegal anyways and they are bad policy:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Non-Competition Clauses in Canadian Employment Law and the Doctrine of Inequality of Bargaining Power
In 2021, the Ontario government legislatively prohibited most non-competition clauses, the first Canadian government to take this step. The move was unexpected
papers.ssrn.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Agreed. U.S. states too.
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#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...
Read more: actorsequity.org/news/PR/2025...
October 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
#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...
Read more: actorsequity.org/news/PR/2025...
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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."
October 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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."
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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.
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...
news.cornell.edu
October 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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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🚨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
📚Guest Editors: @ilralex.bsky.social, Ariel Avgar and Danielle van Jaarsveld
📅Conference: @cornellilr.bsky.social April 11–12, 2026
🗒️For more 👉: shorturl.at/ER2XK
September 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
🚨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
📚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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🚨 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...
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 ....
doi.org
September 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
🚨 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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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...
#EconSky #PoliSky #EconConf
Proposal deadline 9/15
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
September 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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...
#EconSky #PoliSky #EconConf
Proposal deadline 9/15
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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🚨 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/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🚨 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/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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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...
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...
www.ilr.cornell.edu
July 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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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📢 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...
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...
May 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
📢 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...
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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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...
doi.org/10.1177/0019...
May 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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...
doi.org/10.1177/0019...
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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...
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.
news.cornell.edu
May 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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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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
May 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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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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....
‘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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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....
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.
🚨 Exciting new research in Human Resource Management! In this article, my coauthor Tashlin Lakhani and I explore strategic human resource management in the gig economy. 🚗
Check it out here: doi.org/10.1002/hrm....
Check it out here: doi.org/10.1002/hrm....
Human Resource Management in New Service Arrangements: Extending the Ability, Motivation, Opportunity Framework Into the Gig Economy
This article investigates how human resource (HR) practices affect organizational outcomes in one of the newest areas of service work: the gig economy. Combining theory on multi-sided markets and str....
doi.org
April 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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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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/...
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
academicjobsonline.org
March 31, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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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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.
Elizabeth Anderson, who specializes in moral, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, social epistemology and the philosophy of economics and the social sciences, will deliver this year’s #CornellILR Konvitz Lecture on March 27.
Details/registration: www.ilr.cornell.edu/news/public-...
Details/registration: www.ilr.cornell.edu/news/public-...
Puritan Work Ethic, Capitalism to be Discussed in Konvitz Lecture
Elizabeth Anderson, who specializes in moral, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, social epistemology and the philosophy of economics and the social sciences, will deliver this year’s Ko...
www.ilr.cornell.edu
March 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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.