ILR Review

Explore Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld's review of the new book by Russell Lansbury and @ProfMarianBaird that uses evidence from #Australia and #Sweden to argue for #socialsecurity, #health & #community for #retirees. Essential reading for the future of work. doi.org/10.1177/001979…

Revisiting the Hamermesh, Genadek, and Burda study (2021), William A. Darity, Jr. @DukeU and coauthors' rejoinder to their original critique defend the decomposition tools that show how time‑use differences do not drive #racial #earnings gaps . doi.org/10.1177/001979…

🚨New: Read Stephen Frenkel's review of Anna-Lena Wolf's @unibern new book @ILRpress that uses an #ethnographic lens to show how tea #plantation #workers, #managers and companies think about justice and transgression in the global supply chain. doi.org/10.1177/001979…

🚨Out now: Read Ayaj Rana's @cornellilr review of the new book @BloomsburyBooks by @james_muldoon_, Mark Graham, and @CallumCant1 @Essex_EBS @UniofOxford that exposes the global, precarious #workforce behind today’s #AI systems. doi.org/10.1177/001979…

New research by Sazid Ahmad, Chunyun Li and Sarah Ashwin @LSEnews shows that supervisors' respectful treatment of #garment workers significantly reduces their turnover intentions & the effect is stronger when worker participation committees are in place. doi.org/10.1177/001979…

🚨 Our March 2026 issue is out now. 🔎Dive into new research, bold ideas, and great reads. 🗓️ Free online access of all articles and book reviews till March 18th! …sagepub-com.proxy.library.cornell.edu/toc/ilr/current

🚨Just out! Using 200M job postings, new research by @SasserModestino @Northeastern and coauthors shows rapid educational upskilling within #occupations, driven by #software #skills, left non‑college #workers behind during the Great Recession of 2008. doi-org.proxy.library.cornell.edu/10.1177/001979…

🚨Out now! @mattbeane @Ucsb shows how centuries of human skill‑building shape what AI can (and can’t) do for us in his new book @HarperCollins. A sharp timely take on the future of work. Read @shrutiappalla's (@cornellilr) review here👇. doi-org.proxy.library.cornell.edu/10.1177/001979…

🚨 Our January issue is out now. 🔍Dive into fresh research, bold ideas, and great reads. 🆓All articles and book reviews are free online until February 15. …sagepub-com.proxy.library.cornell.edu/toc/ILR/current

For anyone invested in building humane, empowering #workplaces, this book is a call to design technology that strengthens #worker #agency and #wellbeing.

Read Stefan Ivanovski's (@cornellilr) review of @TaraBehrend's (@michiganstateu) new book published by @CambridgrPress that conveys a refreshingly pragmatic message to let #AI handle the speed and scale, and let people do what only people can. doi-org.proxy.library.cornell.edu/10.1177/001979…

But the real story is the gap between how much #workers value remote flexibility and how costly employers believe it is — and those numbers are far apart. doi-org.proxy.library.cornell.edu/10.1177/001979…

This study on remote #work is such a fascinating little reality check. After surveying over 10,000 workers and 1,500 employers in Poland, @ptrlewandowski Katarzyna Lipowska and Mateusz Smoter, from from @ibs_warsaw, find that #hybrid beats fully #remote.

🚨 Final call - the deadline January 31, 2026. 🗓️Call for Papers for A Special Issue on Organizational Perspectives on an Aging Workforce 💻Edited by Peter Berg, @ProfMarianBaird, Matthew Piszczek & Nate Zettna For more 👇archive.ilr.cornell.edu/sites/default/…

If you haven’t explored the article yet, now’s the perfect time to dive in and join the discussion. doi-org.proxy.library.cornell.edu/10.1177/001979…

Moments like this highlight the impact of the research our authors are producing and the conversations they’re sparking beyond the page.

One of our recently published articles on tech worker activism by JS Tan, Natalia Luka and Emily Mazo just caught the attention of @nytimes — and we couldn’t be more thrilled. nytimes.com/2025/12/26/bus…

Happy to see this out in print at @ILRReview 🎉 doi.org/10.1177/001979… We show that robots in the US ⬇️ men’s labor-force participation, and investigate workers' channels of adjustment Where do displaced workers go? #econtwitter #Automation #Robots #earlyretirement [1/3]

🚨Out now! Read Joseph Sobieralski's review @ERAUWorldwide of Ted Reed's book @McFarlandCoPub that traces an insider's view of unions' victories, losses and leadership and brings out the role of labor organizations in the #airline industry. doi-org.proxy.library.cornell.edu/10.1177/001979…

🚨New article📢 How do households adapt to seasonal #joblessness? John Coglianes @federalreserve and Brendan M. Price show that US workers experience recurrent separations spaced 12 months apart and incur large earnings losses. doi-org.proxy.library.cornell.edu/10.1177/001979…