Through teaching, research and outreach, ILR generates and shares knowledge to solve human problems, manage and resolve conflict, establish best practices in the workplace and inform government policy.
New York City
Kheel Exhibit Honors Labor Champion “Ahead of Her Time”
Workers’ rights advocate Frances Perkins led state and federal policy changes throughout her career, which included teaching at the ILR School.
Research-based data and policy analysis on a range of issues impacting New York’s workers, unions and employers are the focus of the ILR School’s second annual Labor Day report.
NYC Food Delivery Workers Face a ‘Harrowing World’
Cornell Chronicle
New York City’s app-based delivery workers regularly face nonpayment or underpayment, unsanitary or unsafe working conditions and the risk of violence, according to a new ILR School report.
Professors Combine Methods and Expertise to Increase Understanding Around Inequality
Shannon Gleeson and Kati Griffith are researching how immigrants think about their rights at work and how immigration status impacts their ability to make claims on those rights.
At 20, Alum’s Strategy for Beauty Business Defies Retail Trends
Forbes
"We were the first national neighborhood beauty store where customers could receive personalized, educational and friendly advice," alum Barry Beck tells Forbes.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cites Professor Colvin’s research on the impact of mandatory arbitration for more than 60 million workers.
Brilliant Economist Impacted Millions of American Workers
Alan Krueger ’83, whose research, teaching and public service shaped the way people think about a range of topics, was known for extraordinary contributions to modern economics.
Erica Smiley, a graduate of the National Labor Leadership Initiative, co-leads the grassroots organization “Jobs for Justice,” and chooses strategies to further collective bargaining in the rapidly changing economy of work.
Barry Beck ’90, co-founder and COO of Bluemercury, Inc., led the Entrepreneurship at Cornell Summit and said that converging diverse voices leads to greater discovery and business growth.
