Graphic of the 71st annual LERA meeting.

ILRies Converge at LERA

The 71st annual meeting of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) will be held this week in Cleveland and, once again, the ILR School will have a robust presence with 19 presenters speaking on a range of topics.

The conference will feature four days of intense learning and skill building at over 80 workshops and sessions, with more than 400 presentations. Among the presenters will be ILR Associate Professor Adam Seth Litwin, who has attended the conference every year since 2003.

“I always return from LERA with new ideas and new collaborations,” says Litwin. “Even with the diversity in methodologies and ideologies at Cornell, my thinking benefits immeasurably from regular exposure to scholars from other programs.”

LERA is the singular organization in the country where professionals interested in all aspects of labor and employment relations network to share ideas and learn about new developments, issues and practices in the field. Founded in 1947, LERA provides a unique forum where the views of representatives of labor, management, government and academics, advocates and neutrals are welcome.

“Between Cornell faculty, Ph.D. student and alumni attendees, there is no institution as well-represented as ours in the LERA ranks,” adds Litwin. “That stands to reason because the academic world sees us as the center of gravity for work and employment research, and the professional world sees us as the premier training ground for those wanting to practice in the field.”

ILRies Presenting At LERA

  • Rachel Aleks – Unions' Response to #MeToo
  • Ariel C. Avgar – Drawing the Line: How Workplace Experiences Influence Individual Perceptions of Sexual Harassment
  • Rosemary Batt and John Kallas – Institutional Legacies and Social Unionism in Healthcare: Bringing Employers Back In
  • Kate Bronfenbrenner, Xavier Eddy, Hannah Simmerman and Kyle Friends – Outsourcing in the Trump Era: Losing Jobs and Communities in Media Silence
  • Hassan Enayati – Minimizing Discrimination and Maximizing Inclusion: Lessons from the Federal Workforce and Federal Subcontractors
  • Matthew Fischer-Daly – Toward a Framework for Studying Employment Relations in a Contingent and Global Economy
  • Ian Greer – Partial Platformisation in Live Music: Consequences and Limits of Uneven Digitalization in a Locally-bounded Service Market
  • Erica Groshen – Preparing U.S. Workers and Employers for an Autonomous Vehicle Future
  • JR Keller – Managerial Mobility and its Effect on Subordinates' Career Outcomes
  • Sarosh C. Kuruvilla – Uncovering the Audit Consulting Industry: Audit Fraud and Labor Practices in Global Supply Chains
  • Adam Seth Litwin – The Impact of Recent Technological Change on Healthcare Delivery
  • Sean O'Brady – Partnering Against Insecurity? A Comparison of Markets, Institutions, and Worker Risk in Canadian and Swedish Retail
  • Jinyoung Park and Jin Sun Bae — Are Wages Lower in Factories Producing for European Brands? A Qualitative Inquiry of a Survey of Myanmar's Garment Workers
  • Matthew Saleh – Global Perspectives on Employment for People with Disabilities

 

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