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Our flexible, interdisciplinary major lets students pursue a wide range of academic interests and careers.

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Study the workplace comprehensively with the world's highest concentration of workplace faculty.

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Invest in your career by learning from instructors who blend world-leading research with business-tested practicality.

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Every ILRie Has a Story

The AFL-CIO/Cornell-ILR Union Leadership Institute prepares labor professionals to advance workers’ rights in New York state.

 

 

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ILR School Events

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Broadband for All? Mapping and Discussing Progress and Remaining Challenges Across NYS

Join Rusty Weaver, Director of Research, ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, and community leaders in broadband accessibility for a virtual presentation of the new Digital Equity Portal and a discussion on what progress has been made since the pandemic and what still needs to happen.
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Broadband for All? Mapping and Discussing Progress and Remaining Challenges Across NYS

Tracking Worker Militancy with the Labor Action Tracker

High-profile strikes and protests have recently garnered national attention. Yet, are worker actions increasing? If so, what demands are being made, and how can we understand their effectiveness? In 2021, researchers at Cornell's School of Industrial Labor Relations sought to provide the answers to these questions through the Labor Action Tracker. The Labor Action Tracker can be used as a comprehensive database of strike and labor protest activity across the United States to better inform and support labor movement activists, policymakers, and scholars about the state of US labor actions today. Please join the Center for Applied Research on Work in conversation with the Labor Action Tracker project leads and special guest Daniel Perez, State Economic Analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, as they discuss the genesis of the tool, how to use it, how it compares to other labor action trackers around the world, and what they see in the data.
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Tracking Worker Militancy with the Labor Action Tracker

2024 Future of Care Work Convening: Forging Connections Across Care

The Worker Institute will host the 2024 Future of Care Work Convening, bringing together advocates, care workers, labor leaders, scholars, and organizers committed to placing care workers' needs and voices at the center of discussions on the future of care work. Building on the energy of the first convening, this year’s speakers, panels, and action sessions will focus on care as a public good, innovative examples of raising standards across care sectors, and building connections across care providers and recipients and paid and unpaid care work.

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2024 Future of Care Work Convening: Forging Connections Across Care

Future of Work Fellowships

The ILR Future of Work fellowship program supports postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students who work with our world-leading faculty on innovative and impactful research projects.

This fellowship program is designed to promote the benefits of strong collaboration between newer researchers and resident faculty members in studying impactful topics related to the future of work. Fellows and their faculty sponsors alike are enabled to address challenging research questions and break out of any stereotypes or default thinking around the future of work.

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“My time at the ILR School helped me understand both labor and management perspectives, which has proven to be a solid foundation for my career.”
Rob Manfred, Commissioner of Major League Baseball

A Banner Day!

ILR Spotlight

On May 7, the ILR School officially unveiled its new ceremonial banner. The redesign reflects the school’s contemporary, global breadth while staying true to ILR’s founding principles.

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Catherwood Library

The Martin P. Catherwood Library is the most comprehensive resource on labor and employment in North America, offering expert research support through reference services, instruction, online guides and access to premier collections.

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ILR in the News

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Best Paper Award Won by Yang-Tan Researchers

Jennifer D. Brooks and Sarah von Schrader investigated how access to remote work for people with disabilities has been affected since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Best Paper Award Won by Yang-Tan Researchers

ILRie Helps Fencing Club to National Title

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Riley Xian ’25 co-captained the Cornell men's fencing club team as it captured the USACFC national title, the program's first since 2018.
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ILRie Helps Fencing Club to National Title

Broadband for All? Mapping and Discussing the Progress, Challenges Across NYS

Community partners, policymakers and the public are invited to join Rusty Weaver, ILR Buffalo Co-Lab research director, for a virtual presentation of the newly updated New York State Digital Equity Portal from noon to 1:30 p.m. May 24.
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Broadband for All? Mapping and Discussing the Progress, Challenges Across NYS

Four Faculty Receive 2024 Carpenter Advising Awards

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Associate Professor Emily Zitek is one of four Cornell faculty members to receive the Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award, which recognizes sustained and distinguished contributions of faculty members to advising undergraduates.
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Four Faculty Receive 2024 Carpenter Advising Awards

Campus Life

A view of student life at Cornell University's ILR School in Ithaca, NY.

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Day four of #seniorspotlights with Kevin Diaz! #Cornell #Cornellilr #graduationcountdown #cornell2024 #graduation

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Day three of #seniorspotlights with Evelyn Cao! #Cornell #Cornellilr #graduationcountdown #cornell2024 #graduation

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Day two of #seniorspotlights with Lauren Elmer! #Cornell #Cornellilr #graduationcountdown #cornell2024 #graduation

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Kicking off day one of #seniorspotlights with Daniella Portnoy! #Cornell #Cornellilr #graduationcountdown #Cornel|2024 #graduation

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Happy Thursday, ILRies! Don’t forget to take time to relax and de-stress during finals 🐻 #cornelluniversity #cornellilr #ilrschool

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Happy Last Day of Classes, everyone! Cheers to a wonderful semester! #cornell #ILR #cornellilr

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