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ILR Faculty Featured on New Cornell Keynotes Podcast

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JR Keller and Timothy McNutt will be featured on the recently launched eCornell Keynotes podcast, created to deliver a new audio option for audiences seeking knowledge from Cornell experts on current events and trending topics.
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ILR Faculty Featured on New Cornell Keynotes Podcast

Consistency Key to Corporate Expressions of Racial Solidarity

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Analysis of Fortune 500 company statements after the 2020 police killing of George Floyd finds that donations to social justice groups only conveyed allyship to Black Americans when seen as part of a long-term commitment to diversity, according to a new study by James T. Carter, assistant professor of organizational behavior.
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Consistency Key to Corporate Expressions of Racial Solidarity

Bronfenbrenner Partnering with HBCUs to Study Black Worker Organizing

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Kate Bronfenbrenner, Jobs with Justice and the Center for Economic Policy Research have secured a $450,000 grant from WorkRise for a project to improve economic security and mobility for low-wage workers and create a more equitable labor market in the South.
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Bronfenbrenner Partnering with HBCUs to Study Black Worker Organizing

Tompkins County Living Wage Sees an ‘Unprecedented’ Increase

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ILR researchers have calculated the 2023 living wage for Tompkins County - $18.45 per hour - is nearly 10% higher than in 2022, the highest increase in three decades.
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Tompkins County Living Wage Sees an ‘Unprecedented’ Increase

Report: Medicare Advantage Plans Cost More, Provide Less

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A new report co-authored by ILR Professor Rosemary Batt raises concerns about the growing use of private Medicare Advantage plans that are overpaid billions while providing lower quality care than traditional Medicare.
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Report: Medicare Advantage Plans Cost More, Provide Less

Downsides of Reducing the Role of Standardized Exams in College Admissions

New ILR School research suggests that less informative college admission exams can reduce the graduation rates and earnings outcomes of both high- and low-income students.
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Downsides of Reducing the Role of Standardized Exams in College Admissions

Our Faculty

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.

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Catherwood Library

The Martin P. Catherwood Library offers expert research support through reference services, instruction, online guides, and access to premier collections. The collection consists of 250,000 volumes and 1500 serial subscriptions along with essential academic and practitioner databases and special format materials such as media and microforms. While many of these resources are academic in origin, we also collect directly from unions, corporations, governments, and non-profit organizations. Additionally, we are an International Labour Organization (ILO) Partner Library.

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The Kheel Center

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

Over the years, many individuals and organizations generously donated their valuable materials to the Kheel Center. For some organizations, the center is the official repository. 

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About the Kheel Center

Undergraduate Research

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Students involved in ILR's many research opportunities develop close relationships with faculty, become authors or coauthors of published articles, and present at conferences and meetings.

 

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Centers and Institutes

Each of ILR's centers and institutes focuses on a particular workplace-related theme and provides an umbrella of support for broad research programs involving our faculty.

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Centers and Institutes

Research Resources

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ILR Press

ILR Press publishes books about workplace issues, labor, management, and social policy. Written from a variety of perspectives, these books appeal to a diverse readership that includes scholars and students throughout the social sciences; practitioners, and, increasingly, the general public. Widely regarded as the most distinguished publisher in the field, ILR Press was founded more than fifty years ago as the publishing division of the ILR School. It is an imprint of Cornell University Press.

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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 our Catherwood Library. We offer research and scholarly output, including journal articles, working papers, and reports that have been selected for inclusion in DC@ILR by the individual departments, centers, institutes, and programs within the ILR School, and deposited by authors or the staff at the Catherwood Library.

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ILR Review

The ILR Review is a peer-reviewed journal on work and employment issues. The Review is 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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