Attending conferences is always meaningful. Even more so when your work receives recognition—this time, with two awards. Honored to receive the 2025 Early Career Award and the Sabina Avdagic Prize for Best Paper in Comparative Capitalism for my dissertation chapter @sasemeeting.bsky.social

💡New article out on strikes! I draw on interviews with ever inspiring Starbucks union activists and data from the @laboraction.bsky.social to demonstrate how workers and union activists organize different types of strikes in the United States. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Some great new research on strikes is being published these days. This latest article by @johnniekallas.bsky.social outlines how how workers organize different types of strikes in the US onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Learn about recent research by @yaminette.bsky.social & Tom Kochan of @mitiwer.bsky.social, Arrow Minster, @psdwsomuch.bsky.social, & Duanyi Yang on measuring the connection between worker voice and job quality: tinyurl.com/47mv44me

What happens when workers have less voice than they expect? Surveying 1,307 U.S. workers, we found that gaps in worker voice are tied to lower job satisfaction, poor well-being, higher burnout, turnover intentions, and stronger interest in unionizing. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Closing the term: a new version of my open access textbook, Work Law: Open Cases & Materials, is up at SSRN. I had to migrate out of Googledocs because I had reached its char. limit and moved to onedrive. Still beta mode; let me know what you think! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Industrial policy—not laissez-faire—has been the historical norm for as long as countries have pursued development. For this post, I wrote about how support for it emerged within development economics and how it was pushed aside under neoliberalism. highvalueadded.substack.com/p/the-rise-a...

Made a starter pack for those working on #SustainableWelfare, #JustTransition, and #EcoSocial Feel free to recommend (or self-recommend!) people to add. Let’s grow this network 🌱 @karabadjieva.bsky.social @tiagomramalho.bsky.social go.bsky.app/PzBGzR1

The question is whether this is really “a general strike” in a literal sense and even if it is, how long its affiliates and members will stick with it.

I set up a ‘labor research and policy’ starter pack. It’s almost at the 150 person capacity… but let me know if I should add you to a ‘part 2’ list… go.bsky.app/55FK3m7