I wrote a policy brief on why NYC’s just cause protections for gig workers bills are needed given the prevalence of discrimination in the industry. @nytwa.bsky.social @workersjusticep.bsky.social

#CornellILR's @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social, assistant professor of global labor and work, provides expert commentary on the dynamics of ethnic groups in street vending and the challenges vendors face under current regulations.

Full moon over Cornell University at sunset. Wish I had had a better camera. And that I wasn’t standing in front of the waste water treatment plant.

Cornell University Library is hiring two Processing Archivists! Come work with us! jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

On Friday, the NYC Council Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection discussed a local law to amend administrative code in relation to the wrongful deactivation of app-based delivery workers. #CornellILR's @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social submitted testimony before city council on this measure.

🚨 New Paper! 🚨 Why do employers violate employment law? Turns out the answer is radically different for small businesses, especially IBIPOC businesses whose marginallization diminishes HR capacity. We find this complicates govt enforcement efforts. Out now in IREL doi.org/10.1111/irel...

Call for Bordeaux 2026 Mini-Conference Theme Proposals! SASE invites scholars to propose mini-conference themes for its 38th Annual Meeting at Sciences Po Bordeaux, 1–3 July 2026 (virtual: 22–24 June) Deadline: 18 Sept 2025 Details: sase.org/news/call-fo... #SASE2026

Pretty funny that both the unions and the bosses made the same calculus on endorsing Cuomo.

Excited about Zohran Mamdani? Read my recent book chapter about the NYTWA hungry strike which he participated in a fought endlessly with Brad Lander to win. andrewwolfsociology.com/wp-content/u...

Good book from the summer office.

And the people likely to suffer the most are not the detested cultural elites, but admin staff, grounds crew, janitors, food workers, adjuncts, lecturers, lab techs, grad students. That tenured Marxist in the English dept is keeping their job, even if their travel budget is going to be cut

📢 CFP: Columbia–Cornell Jr Scholars Workshop on the Political Economy of Work 🗽 Dec 5–6, 2025 in NYC! Open to early-career scholars in law, soc, econ, poli sci, history. Submit 1p abstract by Sept 15 ✅ Feedback + mentoring ✅ Travel/lodging support (if needed) 🔗 forms.gle/vDkCHyenE5yQ...

ICE recently conducted a raid of farm workers, seemingly focused on pro-union worker leaders. On Friday in New York the federal agents stopped a bus and, armed with a list, appeared to single out those who have been doing union organizing for years. theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...

BUFFALO, NY: We are mobilizing to protest the arrest and detention of a group of UFW farm worker leaders we believe are being held at the Batavia ICE detention center. We believe targeting known union supporters in the name of immigration “enforcement” is an outrage. These workers must be released.

How does local place & its socio-political & histories of racism shape gig economy algorithms? Our take out now in @bjireditor.bsky.social "‘Be Your Own Boss?’ Explaining Variation in Worker Response to the Gig Economy's Ideology in the Global North and South" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Welp, the federal minimum wage is now officially a poverty wage (as in, a full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage gets paid less than the poverty line for a single person). www.epi.org/blog/the-fed...

@thecity.nyc wrote an excellent future on our new study finding problems in NYC’s street vendor enforcement and reform efforts @cornellilr.bsky.social @streetvendorproj.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/25/v...

Our new @cornellilr.bsky.social Worker Institute study finds that New York City’s street vending enforcement is a massive money loser which disproportionately criminalizes immigrants and that reform efforts have failed to meet their goals. @streetvendorproj.bsky.social hdl.handle.net/1813/116768

Happy Pub Date to THE PANDEMIC AND THE WORKING CLASS: How US Labor Navigated COVID-19 edited by Nick Juravich and Steve Striffler! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... #LaborStudies #Nonfiction #NonfictionBooks #AcademicPublishing #UniversityPress cc: @umassboston.bsky.social

🔍 #CallForParticipation: #DigiMeet2025 🔍 Doctoral & postdoc researchers - submit your work on platform governance & power! 📅 Nov 6, 2025 (virtual) 📝 Submissions by July 31, 2025 🔗Further Information here: www.cais-research.de/en/event/dig... @bidt.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

It’s publication day on this excellent new volume on the pandemic and the working class. I contributed a chapter on gig worker and street vendor organizing during the pandemic in NYC. Get 30% off with the discount code below. nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=http%3A%...

NEW: 2024 union filings are in from a host of unions, here is the data on membership changes so far: @seiu.org +101,000 @afscme.bsky.social +40,000 @unitehere.org +31,000 UFCW +18,000 @weareliuna.bsky.social +7,000 @uaw.org +5,000 @iuoe.bsky.social +4,000 @smart-union.bsky.social +4,000

Cornell ILR is recruiting a Postdoc in Global Labor and Work - focusing on AI and labor. Deadline May 15, 2025. Please circulate widely! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/program/...

The Dept of Global Labor and Work @cornellilr.bsky.social is hiring a Post Doc on the impact of AI at work. Please apply! nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

For the first time EVER in the Las Vegas Strip’s 90-year history, every casino resort is unionized. Congratulations to the @culinary226.bsky.social workers at Fontainebleau Las Vegas on their new contract!

The NYAG’s settlement with DoorDash was a huge victory for workers but without legislation protecting workers from algorithmic wage setting the problem with persist.

Hosted a screening of Union last night the incredible new doc about the fight for a union at Amazon in NYC. Natalie Monarrez one of the worker leaders did a powerful Q&A after the film. Go see this moving film about how hard it is to form a union in the U.S. @cornellilr.bsky.social

Can’t believe we lost Burawoy. Everything changed and clicked for me in grad school when I read “Manufacturing Consent.” His work and methodological approach were such an inspiration and comfort that not all Sociology had to be the same.

Building a lecture for next term around the Blake Lively sexual harassment lawsuit to explain the difference between labor and employment law. Such an interesting case of how being a union member with a CBA strengthens your employment lawsuit.

Are you going to the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology in Rabat, Morocco (6-11 July)? Did you know you can apply for a grant towards registration costs? If you're a labour researcher, you need to apply with RC44 before 31 January!! For more info, contact [email protected] #labour #unions #ISAForum25

AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler says federation will be vocal about need to overhaul guest worker visas like H-1B - an issue that divides Trump allies. “These programs are used to exploit workers to hold them hostage to corporations who just want to pay people less” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Environmental racism is racial capitalism

It is publication day! The Master's Tools shows how finance destroyed democracy and argues for "democratic ruptures" in the economy, which empower the demos to make investment decisions via sortition. Out with @versobooks.bsky.social now. Please read, engage, criticize, build and share!

The rise in retailers using gig apps to hire workers as freelancers rather than staff is extremely worrying. Shop workers end up losing out on significant employment rights. It's good to see these firms listening to our advice and ending their use of the practice.

How do customers' abusive behavior of frontline workers play out? Michael Maffie @cornelluniversity.bsky.social shows how the “five-star” evaluation system enables different forms of customer abuse & how workers resist this configuration of control. doi.org/10.1177/0019...

Happy New Year from the Labor Action Tracker team 💫 We are pleased to share our November 2024 Monthly Report. We are looking forward to bringing you continued updates from the picket line in 2025. #InSolidarity ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

In what feels like a real microcosm of the US experience I spent yet another New Years trying to calm down my panicking dog from the fireworks. Gonna start a quite people’s don’t tread on me movement.

Used this book in my social movement theory class this fall. It’s excellent as is this critical conversation about this volume.

watching a christian devotional movie being screened at my parent’s church and not only is this script terrible but a key, late film plot point is a bunch of warehouse workers eagerly taking on a 24-hour shift with no additional pay just so their boss can get a new contract

Assabet River outside of Boston hanging with some egrets

Loved this Urban renewal propaganda at the Science Center subway stop in Boston. Celebrating the destruction of a vibrant immigrant neighborhood to build a desolate car centered museum and fortress style apartments.

New from @lfelizleon.bsky.social: The @teamsters.bsky.social strikes against Amazon over the weekend not only caused meaningful disruption to business as usual, they also built a strong sense of empowerment within warehouses. inthesetimes.com/article/amaz...

Watch this movie! Support EWOC!!

Say hi to our union baristas on ULP strike across New England today!

I’m obsessed with the political economy of kids shows where only one character does every job in town.

seen on the picket line in chicago...... 😳😳💖💖💖

We just got a request to revise and resubmit from a journal where the reviewer unknowingly told us we had failed to adequately engage with our past work. 🤣

Y’all…we now have a union store INSIDE Starbucks Headquarters in Seattle! Partners at the SoDo Reserve store voted UNION YES - just HOURS after we announced that 98% of SBWU baristas authorized to strike if necessary. Our union is strong - and ready for whatever it takes 🔥

Grubhub is paying $25 million to settle charges brought by the FTC and the Illinois Attorney General. The company deceived diners about delivery costs, deceived workers about how much money they would make, and engaged in other illegal practices. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

New rival to Uber attempts to take independent contractor status seriously. Charges drivers a monthly fee to use the app and then let’s then set their own rates. Good trolling of Uber, but not clear it has the safe guards to prevent the race to the bottom with wages. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/t...