Participant Listing with Session Descriptions and Paper Abstracts (listed as: Name: Session Title; Paper Title)
The 2015 Cornell LERA roster is set! Congratulations to our 46 presenters which includes 11 ILR alumni! Find out which of your colleagues will be joining you in Pittsburgh and get a preview of their sessions and papers below.
Kyle Albert: New Perspectives on Occupational Closure (PDF, 215 KB); “Predictors of Certification Attainment - How Do They Differ from Unionization and Licensure.pdf (PDF, 69 KB)?”
Rachel Aleks: The Changing Nature of the Professional Employment Relationship: “What Professionals Want Union and Employer Characteristics in Certification Elections of Professional Workers.pdf (PDF, 63 KB)”
Ariel Avgar**: Linking Work Practices and Organizational Outcomes in the Healthcare Industry: “Superbugs vs. Outsourced Cleaners Employment Arrangements and the Spread of Healthcare-Associated Infections.pdf (PDF, 76 KB)”
John August: Work in a Democratic Society.pdf (PDF, 87 KB): “What Can We Learn from Healthcare Improvement Theory for Innovation in Collective Bargaining.pdf (PDF, 87 KB)”
Rosemary Batt: Author Meets Critics: Private Equity at Work by Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt
Bradford Bell: Benefits and Consequences of Alternative Work Arrangements: “The Consequences of Telework An Examination of Individual and Contextual Moderators.pdf (PDF, 91 KB)”
Esta Bigler: Forever Stuck Below Five Percent - Women Working in Construction Trades.pdf (PDF, 138 KB)
Diane Burton: Navigating the Dynamics of Internal and External Labor Markets: “Can They or Should They - External and Internal Influences on Human Capital Acquisition Strategies.pdf (PDF, 88 KB)”
Alexander J.S. Colvin: Dispute Resolution in Multiple Contexts.pdf (PDF, 171 KB); Strengthening the Employment Arbitration Profession: Connecting Research, Policy and Practice: “Research Perspectives.pdf (PDF, 86 KB)”; The Changing Workplace in Public Schools: Connecting Research, Policy and Practice: “Bargaining for Better Schools - A Research and Public Policy Dialogue Project.pdf (PDF, 83 KB)”
Tia Schneider Denenberg: “User-Friendly Arbitration: Helping the Process Serve the Parties”
Ileen DeVault: Advancing Worker Rights - 80 Years After Passage of the NLRA.pdf
Evren Dincer: “Skills in Reindustrializing America: Radical Restructuring of the Skill Trades in American Manufacturing”
Linda Donahue: “Trends in Worker Misclassification in New York State: Assessing the Problem and Strengthening the Solutions”
Todd Dickey: Dispute Resolution in Multiple Contexts.pdf (PDF, 171 KB): “On the Frontier with Conflict Management.pdf (PDF, 86 KB)”
Manfred Elfstrom: “Chinese Labor Unrest: Transforming the State from Below?”
Maria Figueroa: “Trends in Worker Misclassification in New York State: Assessing the Problem and Strengthening the Solutions”
Dick Fincher**: Strengthening the Employment Arbitration Profession: Connecting Research, Policy and Practice; FMCS Presents: Labor Dispute Systems Design and Capacity Building Abroad: Challenges, Best Practices and Lessons Learned
Eli Friedman: Transformation of the World of Work and Labor Movements in Asia: “Informal Work and Labor Unrest in China.pdf (PDF, 75 KB)”; Worker Representation in China.pdf (PDF, 221 KB)
Mark Gough: Dispute Resolution in Multiple Contexts.pdf (PDF, 171 KB): “Institutional and Organizational Context and Firm Adoption of Arbitration”
James Gross: Advancing Worker Rights - 80 Years After Passage of the NLRA.pdf (PDF, 217 KB): “Workers Rights, Human Rights, and the NLRA”
Richard Hurd: The Changing Nature of the Professional Employment Relationship
Sally Klingel: The Changing Workplace in Public Schools: Connecting Research, Policy and Practice
Nikolaus Krachler: The Changing Nature of the Professional Employment Relationship: “Care versus Technocracy - Professional Interests and Middle Managers in English Intensive Care Nursing.pdf (PDF, 63 KB)”
Peter Lazes: Healthcare Unions Confront the Ebola Crisis
Kwan Lee: Dispute Resolution in Multiple Contexts.pdf (PDF, 171 KB): “Institutional and Organizational Context and Firm Adoption of Arbitration”
Jae Eun Lee: Navigating the Dynamics of Internal and External Labor Markets: “Can They or Should They - External and Internal Influences on Human Capital Acquisition Strategies.pdf (PDF, 88 KB)”
David Lipsky: “Dispute Resolution in Fortune 1000 Firms: An Empirical Analysis of FLSA and Federal Discrimination Claims”
Adam Seth Litwin: Linking Work Practices and Organizational Outcomes in the Healthcare Industry: “Superbugs vs. Outsourced Cleaners Employment Arrangements and the Spread of Healthcare-Associated Infections.pdf (PDF, 76 KB)”
Michael Maffie: “Dispute Resolution in Fortune 1000 Firms: An Empirical Analysis of FLSA and Federal Discrimination Claims”
Paulo Ferreira de Souza Marzionna: Dispute Resolution in Multiple Contexts.pdf (PDF, 171 KB): “Alternative Dispute Resolution in Brazil.pdf (PDF, 75 KB)”
Kristie McAlpine: Benefits and Consequences of Alternative Work Arrangements: “The Consequences of Telework An Examination of Individual and Contextual Moderators.pdf (PDF, 91 KB)”
Chaturong Napathorn: “International Pressures, Hospital Management Model & Their Implications for Labor Market and Medical Tourism Policy in Thailand”
Can Ouyang: “A Stakeholder Explanation for The Adoption of Human Resource practices: The Role of Owner, Customer, and Regional institutions”
Jinyoung Park: Transformation of the World of Work and Labor Movements in Asia: “Politically Radical, Economically Liberal: Labor Movement in the Political Transition of Myanmar/Burma”
Katie Rainwater: Transformation of the World of Work and Labor Movements in Asia: “US Sanctions, the Solidarity Center and the Labor Movement in the Shrimp Processing Sectors of Thailand and Bangladesh”
Pamela Tolbert: Navigating the Dynamics of Internal and External Labor Markets
Lowell Turner: Advancing Worker Rights - 80 Years After Passage of the NLRA.pdf (PDF, 217 KB)
Hao Zhang: Transformation of the World of Work and Labor Movements in Asia: “Informal Work and Labor Unrest in China.pdf (PDF, 75 KB)”
**denotes ILR Alumni