New report/working paper for the ILO - Global Case Studies of Social Dialogue on AI and Algorithmic Management. With Shruti Appalla, Dina Ginzburg, Jeonghun Kim, and Wen Li Thianhttps://www.ilo.org/publications/global-case-studies-social-dialogue-ai-and-algorithmic-management

Today at 10am EDT! @sasemeeting.bsky.social Michèle Lamont and Wolfgang Streeck - Democracy after globalism: States, social movements, and recognition claims. 10:00-11:30 EDT/ 16-17:30 CET - Wed, 2 July virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/37937/...

The Social Organization of Ideas: Translating Research into Labor Policy - Not-to-be-missed @sasemeeting.bsky.social Featured Panel Imran Chowdhury, Chair - with Pierre-Antoine Harvey, Thea Lee, @thorsten-schulten.bsky.social, and Bart Vanhercke virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/37937/...

Polanyi after Globalism - with Marguerite Mendell, @dorobohle.bsky.social, Zachariah Mampilly, and Andreas Novy. Don't miss this featured panel at @sasemeeting.bsky.social 15:00-16:30 Friday, 11 July 2025 - Room 517C Link to program: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/37937/...

AI Value Chains: from Exploitation to Organizing -- with @geoplace.bsky.social, ‪@martinkrz.bsky.social, and Uma Rani Amara - Featured panel @sasemeeting.bsky.social 08:30-10:00 Friday, 11 July, 2025 - Room 517C virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/37937/...

Save the date! @aidanregan.bsky.social will moderate a round table discussion at this year's @sasemeeting.bsky.social conference. Participation is possible online.

@sasemeeting.bsky.social featured (virtual) panel with Michèle Lamont and Wolfgang Streeck - moderated by @aidanregan.bsky.social. Democracy after globalism: States, social movements, and recognition claims. 10:00-11:30 EDT/ 16-17:30 CET - Wed, 2 July virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/37937/...

"Workers are usually not seeking to stop the march of technology," noted @vdoellgast.bsky.social, who is the Anne Evans Estabrook Professor of Employment Relations and Dispute Resolution at #CornellILR. "They just want to have some control." Read more: www.france24.com/en/live-news...

@sasemeeting.bsky.social featured (virtual) panel with Michèle Lamont and Wolfgang Streeck - moderated by @aidanregan.bsky.social. Democracy after globalism: States, social movements, and recognition claims. 10:00-11:30 EDT/ 16-17:30 CET - Wed, 2 July virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/37937/...

Reimagining Solidarity in Israel/Palestine - with Arees Bishara, Assaf Bondy, Walid Habbas, Jonathan Preminger, and Ibrahim Shikaki. Featured panel at the upcoming @sasemeeting.bsky.social annual meeting: sase.org/event/2025-m...

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/...

Great beach read: part memoire, part call to arms by Orry Mittenmayer - former app-based delivery worker and works council + union organizer in Cologne.

New paper in HRMJ: Unions help make remote work more fair - based on research in the US, Canada, and Germany: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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/...

Last was @etui.bsky.social's conference. I recommend session 1 w/Andrea Bassanini, @valepuligna.bsky.social, Uma Rani, & last session w/Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau, @vdoellgast.bsky.social, @siborelli.bsky.social Day 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iASg... Day 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PskB... (11/11)

If the EU Court cancels the minimum wage directive, the popular legitimacy of the EU will be in tatters. Workers will not understand why the many business-friendly EU governance prescriptions on wage cuts are legal while a labour-friendly directive on adequate minimum wages is not.

AI is transforming work, but workers shouldn’t be left behind. Stronger protections, human oversight, and collective bargaining can ensure AI benefits everyone—not just employers. Lessons from Germany show how worker voice shapes better workplaces. #FutureOfWork equitablegrowth.org/boosting-u-s...

New paper from @vdoellgast.bsky.social & Nell Geiser from @cwaunion.bsky.social: “policies strengthening worker rights and power are crucial to encouraging a high-road approach to AI that complements rather than replaces workforce skills.”

Join our Jan 29 webinar on 'Labor Union Responses to AI' - @cornellilr.bsky.social with speakers from the @cwaunion.bsky.social Research Dept, Meow Wolf Workers Collective, and New York Times Tech Guild. www.ilr.cornell.edu/carow/events...

Engage with this fascinating new work on unpaid labor @valepuligna.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social @oxfordunipress.bsky.social that was featured in our book review forum. A book presentation at follows on 29th January. blog.oup.com/2025/01/beyo...

Join our Jan 29 webinar on 'Labor Union Responses to AI' - @cornellilr.bsky.social with speakers from the @cwaunion.bsky.social Research Dept, Meow Wolf Workers Collective, and New York Times Tech Guild. www.ilr.cornell.edu/carow/events...

How do labor unions impact workplace safety? Ling Li and coauthors show that unionization decreased the case distribution of accidents below 2 cases per 100 full-time equivalent workers annually in larger bargaining units and manufacturing establishments. doi.org/10.1177/0019...

What are the causes of #work #intensification? Francis Green and coauthors show that #technology, organizational change, upskilling requirements and self-employment can all account for increasing work intensification. doi.org/10.1177/0019...

How can the state facilitate workforce development? Jenna Myers and Katherine Kellogg @mitsloan.bsky.social show that state actors can structure provisional goal setting and revision, encourage experimentation, and frame coordination to inspire collective action. doi.org/10.1177/0019...

Read Stephen J Frenkel's review of Wolfgang Streeck's new book @versobooks.bsky.social that provokes us into thinking how nation #states can take back control from centralized #institutions and reverse the nefarious impacts of #neoliberal thinking. doi.org/10.1177/0019...

How can we reverse the plateauing of female labor force participation & slowing down of their occupational and wage convergence with men? Francine Blau @cornellilr.bsky.social suggests that policy initiatives to address work–family issues & labor market discrimination helps. doi.org/10.1177/0019...

Is there a gendered response to technological development? Using the case of fracking, Elizabeth U. Cascio & Ayushi Narayan show that it has significantly increased relative demand for less-educated male labor and increased high school dropout rates of male teens. doi.org/10.1177/0019...

As there are more folks on Bluesky now, I’m reposting my starter pack on labor research and policy. Part 2 will be in the comments. go.bsky.app/55FK3m7

Happy New Year! Taking stock of books read… by way of asking for recommendations for 2025 reading. Fiction, biography, history, social science all welcome.

Today is the deadline - submit your papers & panels to the SASE 2025 conference in Montreal. @sasemeeting.bsky.social

RA Hire Alert: I'm hiring an RA to work with me on the economics of technological growth, innovation, & AI. The position is based at MIT (FutureTech). Please spread the word: futuretech.mit.edu/opportunitie...

🗞️ New issue of #HesaMag just out! 🤖 How can we navigate the #AI revolution in the world of work, and what are the implications for occupational health & safety? Follow the link to read it and subscribe to future issues! 🔗 etui.org/Z2A

I've been putting together a reading list of books by featured speakers across our panels and book salons at SASE Montreal 2025 - @sasemeeting.bsky.social . You can find my working list here: www.betterworldbooks.com/My/Wishlist?...

What role does #employer involvement play in workers' vocational training? Amanda Chuan and Christian Lyhne Ibsen show that as age increases, worker adaptability with #skills shows a steep decline in systems with high employer involvement in vocational training. doi.org/10.1177/0019...

Read this excellent book by Debbie Goldman - Historian and former CWA Research Director and Telecommunications Policy Director: @cwaunion.bsky.social

Explore Kevin Woojin Lee's review of Michel Anteby's new book 'The Interloper' @princetonupress.bsky.social where he unpacks how ethnographers studying work and organizations can negotiate and understand resistance from participants as a generative part of research. doi.org/10.1177/0019...

ETUI researcher Marouane Laabbas-el-Guennouni will be presenting online at this hybrid conference on the topic of #worker protection through #EcoSocial dialogue 🤝🌱 More info here 🔗 cupe3903.org/news/past-present-and-future-of-green-jobs/

#Reminder of the new award from SASE Network E: the Sabina Avdagic Early Career Scholar Prize for Best Paper in Comparative Capitalism, in memory of the late Dr. Sabina Avdagic **To be eligible you must submit a Network E paper by Dec 16 🔗 sase.org/.../announce...

"Eine #Niedriglohnbranche par excellence": Meine Einschätzung zum vorläufigen Scheitern der #Tarifverhandlungen in der #Systemgastronomie: www.mdr.de/nachrichten/...

2 weeks away! Don't forget SASE's 2025 Montreal Conference’s deadlines are earlier than previous years! 📅 For more information: sase.org/event/2025-m... #SASE #SASE2025 #SASEMontreal2025

New @etui.bsky.social book, 'Experimenting for union renewal: challenges, illustrations and lessons' - Mélanie Laroche & Gregor Murray, eds. @kurtvandaele.bsky.social www.etui.org/publications...

@sasemeeting.bsky.social is on bluesky! Submit your abstracts for SASE 2025 in Montreal: to networks on comparative capitalism, digital economy, finance and society, global value chains, postcolonialism and more…

UMass is putting on great conference on strikes next spring. They are looking for submissions from both academics and labor unions. Submit now! websites.umass.edu/strike2025/

If you have/ will have a book out on issues of #asset stranding or loss and decline in the #climate crisis more broadly and would like to have a book panel on it during our SASE Mini-Conference, please do reach out!

For those of you interested, a new starter pack for labor relations researchers.

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

Join us at ILR to study Labor Research and Policy. Applications are open for our MS ILR degree - deadline December 15: www.ilr.cornell.edu/programs/gra...

Our special section drawn from the Festschrift papers in honor of Thomas [email protected] & edited by Rose Batt @cornellilr.bsky.social, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Ann Frost & John Paul MacDuffie @uofpenn.bsky.social is out! doi.org/10.1177/0019...

TONIGHT! Don't miss this exciting lecture by Rana Arafat exploring the intersection of #news automation, #AI manipulation, and algorithmic bias in the Global South, drawing on case studies from Arab newsrooms, Gaza War, and the 2024 Indian #elections. 👉 www.weizenbaum-institut.de/veranstaltun...