The Worker Institute brings together researchers, educators and students with practitioners in labor, business and policymaking to address issues related to confronting systemic inequality and building a fair economy, robust democracy and just society. We will share opinion, analysis, research, data, insights and training from our faculty and staff.
Mobilizing Against Inequality
ILR School Hosts “Stories of Belonging” Immigration Project Exhibit
During the week of September 16th through September 20th, the ILR Worker Institute hosted an outdoor exhibit highlighting stories like these entitled “Stories of Belonging: Central American TPS Workers and the Defiant Struggle to Stay Home in the U.S.”
The ILR School Climate Jobs Institute, the first U.S. academic institution focused on conducting research and developing policy for governments across the nation to support clean energy targets, is launching Jan. 25 in New York City.
Tristan Ivory, Assistant Professor, International and Comparative Labor, writes about the history that led to this moment and direct actions to address systemic racism and poverty.
Unison and the Filipino Care Workers Campaign, 2007
After overcoming initial differences in strategy and structure, the labor-community partnership was successful in bringing about changes to immigration policy and in integrating Filipino care workers into the labor market and the union.
The role of UK unions in the civic integration of immigrant workers
The aim of this literature review is to examine what has been published on UK unions and their role in integrating migrant workers both into unions and in wider society.
Through Polish media, associations, and social and educational events, this campaign set out to increase political participation and activism among Polish migrants.
Biography of Three Trade Unionists with a Migration Background
This paper looks at the background and experiences of three influential German trade unionists and how they came into the positions that they hold today.
The Justice for Roofers Campaign case study details the bottom up organization of Latino workers- many of which were undocumented – in an industry plagued by low wages, dangerous working conditions, and high turnover rates.
The role of US unions in the civic integration of immigrant workers
Written in 1921 at the height of the immigration wave from Eastern, Central and Southern Europe, this functional and largely descriptive work depicted the labor union as an immigrant worker mutual-aid society that provided workers with a range of social welfare and cultural benefits.
The case illustrates the success factors of the strike and the complexities of the union's role in supporting the immigrant workers' struggle and integrating them into French society.
The CFDT-Yveslines case on the "Travailleurs Sans-Papiers"
This case focuses on the work of the Departmental Unit of Yvelines (Versailles Province) of the French Democratic Confederation of Labor (CFDT-Ivelines) to advance the campaign for regularization of undocumented immigrant workers.
This case study examines CGT's leading role and the factors leading to this unprecedented social movement, including changes in representation laws that propelled persistent declines in union density, and an immigration law reform that provided the opportunity for both immigrant workers and unions to advance common goals.
The role of French unions in the civic integration of immigrant workers
Written in September 2009 as a research contribution for the book Mobilizing against Inequality: Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism, Lee Adler, Maite Tapia and Lowell Turner (eds.), Ithaca: ILR Press, 2014
The campaign, which led to the first ever contract in the industry for 2011, underscores the importance of labor-community alliances, civic participation, and the integration of culturally appropriate organizing strategies.
