Virginia L Doellgast
Virginia Doellgast is the Anne Evans Estabrook Professor of Employment Relations and Dispute Resolution in the ILR School at Cornell University, and President of the Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics (SASE) (2024-5). Her research focuses on the comparative political economy of labor markets and labor unions, inequality, precarity, and democracy at work. She is currently studying the impact of digitalization and AI on job quality in in the ICT services and game development industries, based on comparative research in North America and Europe. Past research projects have compared labor union responses to restructuring and employer collective action in the telecommunications sector; and worker voice and well-being in call centers.
She is author of Exit, Voice, and Solidarity (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Disintegrating Democracy at Work (Cornell University Press, 2012); and co-editor of International and Comparative Employment Relations (Sage, 2021) and Reconstructing Solidarity (Oxford University Press, 2018). She has been Co-Editor of the ILR Review since 2022, and has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrielle Beziehungen, Socio-Economic Review, Transfer, Work, Employment and Society, and Work in the Global Economy. Her research has been funded by the Fulbright, DAAD (Germany), ESRC (UK), SSHRC (Canada), and the Research Council of Norway.
Professor Doellgast works with diverse international research institutes, policy organizations, and labor unions in her research, teaching, and outreach. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the at the WSI-Hans Böckler Stiftung and has been a visiting scholar at Forskningscenter for Arbejdsmarkeds- og Organisationsstudier (FAOS), Freie Universität Berlin, Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail (LEST), Max Planck Institute für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG), University of New South Wales (UNSW), and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). She was previously a faculty member at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at King’s College London. She has presented her research at over 20 practitioner meetings and conferences, including those organized by the ILO, the European Commission, and UNI-ICTS. She has been interviewed on the BBC, Deutschlandfunk, and NPR, and been quoted in Asahi, Bloomberg, Der Spiegel, Forbes, the Globe and Mail, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.