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We host more full-time faculty involved in teaching and research that spans the broad range of work and employment disciplines than any other educational institution like us.

Bringing Sociology to Organizational Behavior: Pamela Tolbert Reflects on Her ILR Career

Pamela Tolbert recently retired after a career at the ILR School that has featured research, teaching, mentorship and more. Known for leading the development of institutional organizational theory, Tolbert became the Lois S. Gray Professor of ILR and Social Sciences in the Department of Organizational Behavior in 2010.
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Bringing Sociology to Organizational Behavior: Pamela Tolbert Reflects on Her ILR Career

A Career about Disability, Work and Leisure: LaWanda Cook

LaWanda Cook, who recently retired from ILR, reflects on her career, the importance of the whole person and why leisure matters.
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A Career about Disability, Work and Leisure: LaWanda Cook

Tove Helland Hammer ’69, First Female Editor of ILR Review, Dies at 80

Tove Helland Hammer, A&S ’69, professor emerita of organizational behavior in the ILR School and the first female editor of the ILR Review, died on Sept. 12 in Ithaca. She was 80.
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Tove Helland Hammer ’69, First Female Editor of ILR Review, Dies at 80

Our world-class faculty study work at every level, in disciplines such as sociology, history, law, HR studies and anthropology. Our research influences public policy, informs business strategy and organizational design, and improves professional practices, implementing new approaches to help the world understand work.

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Catherwood Library

The Martin P. Catherwood Library, housed within and serving the ILR School, offers one of the most comprehensive labor and employment collections in North America, reflecting ILR’s status as the leading institution in the field of Industrial and Labor Relations.

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The Kheel Center

The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives collects, preserves and makes accessible special collections pertaining to the history of the workplace and labor relations.

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DigitalCollections@ILR

DigitalCollections@ILR offers electronic access to unique material that encompasses every aspect of the workplace, as a service of Catherwood Library.

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ILR Press

ILR Press publishes books about workplace issues, labor, management and social policy. Widely regarded as the most distinguished publisher in the field, ILR Press is the publishing division of the ILR School and is an imprint of Cornell University Press.

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ILR Review

The ILR Review is a peer-reviewed journal on work and employment issues, published by SAGE Publications. It is dedicated to international and interdisciplinary research that advances new theory, presents novel empirical work and informs organizational and public policy.

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Future of Work Fellowships

Supporting Innovative Scholarship

The Future of Work Fellowship program offers research opportunities to promising scholars who seek to create understanding of the future of work, labor and employment.

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