Casey Platkin

Casey is a senior from the San Francisco Bay Area studying Industrial and Labor Relations with a minor in Law & Society. On campus, he is involved with the Scheinman Conflict Resolution Club, the Cornell Workplace Review, Cornell Undergraduate Economic Review, the Cornell Student Assembly, and the LOGOS Philosophy Journal. Off-campus, he has interned in various governmental and research positions, including the U.S. Senate HELP Committee and the Economic Policy Institute. Casey also spent his junior year abroad studying Politics & Philosophy at the University of Oxford, where he served as editor of the university’s undergraduate political theory journal and rowed for the Lady Margaret Hall Boat Club. After spending the previous summer as a research assistant for the ICS Last-Mile Delivery Project, Casey is writing a senior honors thesis examining the evolution of internal labor markets in the U.S. last-mile delivery sector. 

ILR Senior Honors Thesis: The Evolution of Careers: Amazon’s Disruption of Internal Labor Markets in the ‘Last Mile’ 
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