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Doellgast Research Offers Insight into AI Protections for Workers

Taking lessons from Germany and Norway, Professor Virginia Doellgast demonstrates how different tactics can be used to protect workers from algorithmic management and AI technology abuses.
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Doellgast Research Offers Insight into AI Protections for Workers

Pros and Cons of Affirmative Action at an Elite Brazilian University

New research by Assistant Professor Evan Riehl shows that affirmative action can have benefits for students from disadvantaged backgrounds but also unintended spillover effects that negatively impact a university’s other students.
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Pros and Cons of Affirmative Action at an Elite Brazilian University

Climate Change Threatens Fashion Industry

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Extreme heat and flooding are threatening key international apparel hubs, with four countries vital to the fashion industry facing losses of 1 million jobs and $65 billion in earnings by 2030, according to two new reports out of the Global Labor Institute at Cornell University.
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Climate Change Threatens Fashion Industry

Recipients Can Recognize – And Correct – Positive Bias

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Those who benefit from racial profiling and other types of favoritism are more likely to recognize it and take corrective action if their attention is drawn to the victims of that bias, according to new research by Associate Professor Emily Zitek.
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Recipients Can Recognize – And Correct – Positive Bias

Researchers Prefer Same-Gender Co-Authors, Study Confirms

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Researchers are more likely to pen scientific papers with co-authors of the same gender, according to research by Y. Samuel Wang, assistant professor of statistics and data science.
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Researchers Prefer Same-Gender Co-Authors, Study Confirms

Keller Research Wins Best Paper

The Academy of Management’s Careers Division has named a paper co-authored by an ILR associate professor as best published paper.
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Keller Research Wins Best Paper

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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