Research & Policy
Cornell's experts and program centers can assist union leaders with research, consulting and technical assistance for national and local unions on union, industry, and occupational issues.
Special Topics
Age
- Hutchens, Robert. Job Opportunities for Older Workers: When Are Jobs Filled with External Hires?
- Mitchell, Olivia, Phillip Levine, and Silvana Pozzebon. Aging, Job Satisfaction, and Job Performance.
Arts and Entertainment
- New York's Big Picture: Assessing New York's Position in Film, Television and Commercial Production
- Gray, Lois and Ronald Seeber. The Industry and the Unions: An Overview
Building Trades
- A New Alliance in New York State: A Progress Report on the Labor Movement's Restructuring, Capacity Building, and Programmatic Work
- Building and Construction Trades Unions: Are They Built to Win?
- Bottom-Up Organizing in the Trades: An Interview with Mike Lucas, IBEW Director of Organizing
Communication
- Margolies, Ken. Talking vs. Communicating
- Margolies, Ken. Communicating Across Cultures
- Margolies, Ken. Creative Pressure Tactics
- Margolies, Ken. Why Contracts Can be Hard to Interpret
Disability in the Workforce
Domestic Violence
Gender
- Alvarez, Sally. Review of the book Building Movement Bridges: The Coalition of Labor Union Women
- Blau, Francine and Jed DeVaro. ILR Impact Brief- Gender, Promotion, and Raises: Sometimes the Advantage Goes to Men
- Blau, Francine and Jed DeVaro. New Evidence on Gender Differences in Promotion Rates: An Empirical Analysis of a Sample of New Hires
- Global Employment Trends for Women
- Gray, Lois. The Route to the Top: Female Union Leaders and Union Policy
- Gray, Lois. Women in Union Leadership Roles
- 2007 New York Census: The State of Women Business Leaders in New York State
Global Labor Issues
High Road Partnership
Immigration
- Aydemir, Abdurrahman and Mikal Skuterud. The Immigrant Wage Differential Within and Across Establishments
- Bridging the Gap: Training Needs Assessment of the Immigrant Workforce in Onondaga County, NY
- Chiswick, Barry, Anh Le, and Paul Miller. How Immigrants Fare Across the Earnings Distribution in Australia and the United States
Labor and Employment Law
Labor Market
- Fields, Gary. Labor Market
- Devaro, Jed, Suman Ghosh, and Cindy Zoghi. Job Characteristics and Labor Market Discrimination in Promotions: New Theory and Empirical Evidence
- DeVaro, Jed. The Labor Market Effects of Employer Recruitment Choice
- Fields, Gary. How Much Should We Care About Changing Income Inequalities in the Course of Economic Growth?
- Hammer, Tove and Ariel Avgar. It's a Paradox: Union Workers Less Satisfied but Less Likely to Quit
New York State
- New York State Department of Labor
- ILR Impact Brief – Employee or Independent Contractor? Misclassification Comes at a Price
- The Cost of Worker Misclassification in New York State
- Bridging the Gap: Training Needs Assessment of the Immigrant Workforce in Onondaga County, NY
- Greer, Ian and Lou Jean Fleron. Labor and Regional Development in the U.S.A: Building a High Road Infrastructure in Buffalo, New York.
- Fleron, Lou Jean, Howard Stanger, and Eileen Patton. Champions @ Work: Employment, Workplace Practices and Labor-Management Relations in Western New York: A Study
- Gray, Lois, Thomas Quimby and Kathy Schrier. Union-Management Training Programs in the Public Sector: The New York Experience
Working Conditions
- Levine, Linda. Coal Mine Safety and Health
- Mogensen, Vernon. Worker Safety Under Siege: Labor, Capital, and the Politics of Workplace Safety in a Deregulated World
- Brown, Nellie. Accommodating the Allergic Employee in the Workplace
- Platner, James, Debi Duke, and Susan Zucker. Negotiating Contract Language on Health and Safety: A Guide to Planning, with Sample Clauses
