Research is a core component of ILR's mission.
Our faculty are social scientists whose research covers a broad range of employment and workplace topics.
Future of Work
Q&A with Jian Zou
Jian Zou, whose two-year Future of Work Fellowship began in July, is working with Professor Michael Lovenheim and Associate Professor Evan Riehl at ILR.
Negotiation and Gender Bias Among Townsend’s Research Interests
Charlotte “Charlie” Townsend, a post-doctoral associate in ILR’s Department of Organizational Behavior, joined the school in August as a Future of Work fellow. She studies gender, stereotypes, negotiations, work-family conflict, gender roles, diversity and hierarchy.
Dual Tracks to the Top: Men Often Linked With Power, Women with Status
Cornell Chronicle
Men are associated with control over people and resources, and women are aligned with respect and admiration, according to new Cornell research by Charlotte Townsend.
In 2021 the ILR School began tracking the scope of labor unrest in the United States. Today, the Worker Institute and Cornell ILR School released the first ILR Labor Action Tracker Annual Report, which presents key findings on work stoppages for 2021.
Agrarian Studies, Climate Change and the Future of work
ILR's Associate Professor Sarah Besky will collaborate with Dr. Hadia Akhtar Khan to form the Agrarian Studio Lab to research the intersection of climate change and rural workers globally.
Fighting exploitation: Innovative policy on Immigrant Workers’ Rights
ILR Professors Shannon Gleason and Kate Griffiths will work with Dr. Youbin Kang to examine the efficacy of innovative regulatory efforts to disentangle worker rights from restrictive immigration policy.
