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The Worker Institute publishes its research and analysis in reports, policy briefs and articles highlighted below. Explore our research on themes of Low Wage and Precarious Work, Equity at Work, and the Future of Care Work here. For more on these initiatives, visit the Research page.

Engaging in Wage Policy; Elimintaing the Tipped Wage

Worker Institute Senior Associate Linda Donahue presented testimony she co-authored with ILR faculty members Shannon Gleeson and Kati Griffith today in front of the New York State Wage Board in Buffalo supporting the elimination of the tipped wage rate in the state.
Tipped Wage
Engaging in Wage Policy; Elimintaing the Tipped Wage

"ILR Opened Doors"

Authored by Lois Gray and Maria Figueroa of the Worker Institute, "Women's Committees in Worker Organizations: Still Making a Difference" is the newest in a series of collaborations between the ILR School and the Berger-Marks Foundation.
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"ILR Opened Doors"

Still Making a Difference

The Berger-Marks Foundation announces the release of its newest report, “Women’s Committees in Worker Organizations: Still Making a Difference,” written by Lois Gray and Maria Figueroa of the Worker Institute at Cornell,
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Still Making a Difference

Restrictions to Interest Arbitration

, ILR lecturer Lee Adler and Cornell ILR senior Ariel Kaplan have researched whether these proposals would be of help to New York's governmental entities that are truly in financial distress. Adler and Kaplan conclude that the changes would not offer financial relief to these communities.
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Restrictions to Interest Arbitration

Family Wages: The Roles of Wives and Mothers in U.S. Working-Class Survival Strategies, 1880-1930

This paper argues that we need to rethink our evaluation of the economic roles played by ever-married women in working-class families
Working mother with kids
Family Wages: The Roles of Wives and Mothers in U.S. Working-Class Survival Strategies, 1880-1930

Love Song to the UAW

In 1937 autoworkers boldly grasped the means of production, gained recognition from General Motors, and proceeded to build the kind of institutional power that transformed history. It’s an incredibly seductive story. Perhaps too seductive.
Walter Reuther (Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University)
Love Song to the UAW