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Shannon Marie Gleeson

People/Faculty
Edmund Ezra Day Professor, Labor Relations, Law and History
Global Labor and Work
Chairperson
Global Labor and Work
Shannon Gleeson
Overview

Shannon Gleeson is the Edmund Ezra Day Professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Brooks School of Public Policy. Her books include Legalized Inequalities: Immigration and Race in the Low-Wage Workplace (with Kate Griffith, Darlène Dubuisson, and Patricia Campos-Medina, Russell Sage Foundation Press, Forthcoming 2025), Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston (with Els de Graauw, Temple University Press, 2024), Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power (with Xóchitl Bada, University of California Press, 2023), Precarious Claims: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States (University of California Press, 2016), and Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston (Cornell University Press, 2012).