Tuesday | Conference Activities • 6/1/2021 |
11 - 11:45 am | National Chapter Advisory Council (NCAC) Meeting—Committee Stream
Co-Chairs: William Canak, Middle Tennessee State University (ret.) and Bonnie Castrey, Dispute Resolution Services |
12 ‑ 12:45 pm | Membership Committee Meeting—Committee Stream
Co-Chairs: Cyndi Furseth, Portland General Electric (ret.) and David Lewin, University of California, Los Angeles |
1 ‑ 1:45 pm | Development Committee Meeting—Committee Stream
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2:30 ‑ 3:15 pm | 74th Annual Meeting Program Committee Meeting—Committee Stream
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3:30 ‑ 4:15 pm | Editorial Committee Meeting—Committee Stream
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4:30 ‑ 5:15 pm | LERA Diversity and Inclusion Committee Meeting—Committee Stream
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6 ‑ 7:30 | Executive Board Meeting—Link Distributed Manually
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Saturday | Conference Activities • 6/5/2021 |
10:30 ‑ 10:45 am | Audio Visual Test Session: Open to All—Plenary Stream
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11 ‑ 11:30 am | Featured Speaker: TBA Government |
11:45 am ‑ 12:45 pm | |
1.1 Labor in Global Supply Chains Part I: Disruptions to the Status Quo (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 1
Presenters: Chunyun Li, London School of Economics and Political Sciences and Sarosh C. Kuruvilla, Cornell University—The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Apparel Supply Chain Workers: Surveys of Better Work Factories
Shane Godfrey, University of Cape Town and Khalid Nadvi, University of Manchester—Uneven Regional Development, Labour Regimes and Regional Value Chains: The Southern African Garment Sector
Jette Steen Knudsen, Tufts University—A Procedures and Outcomes Paradox After Rana Plaza: Support for Labor Rights by U.S. Companies and the U.S. Government
Drusilla Brown, Laura Babbitt and Ana Antolin, Tufts University and Negin Toosi, California State University—Fair Recruitment along the Bangladesh-Qatar Migration Corridor | |
1.2 Online Facilitation: Input and Engagement in a Virtual World—Breakout Stream 2
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1.3 Legal and Policy Issues Surrounding Remote Work—Breakout Stream 3
Panelists: Elise Gould (inv.), Economic Policy Institute—Who is Working Remotely, Who Isn't, and What Are the Trends | |
1.4 Reducing Wage Theft Requires Joint Employer and Vicarious Liability—Breakout Stream 4
Panelists: Mark Erlich, Harvard University—Construction: The Original Gig Workers and the Growth of Wage Theft and other Illegal Employment Practices
Alacoque Hinga Nevitt, Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia—Illegal Worker Misclassification: Payroll Fraud in the District of Columbia Construction Industry | |
1.5 LERA Best Papers I: Age (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Sebastian Fossati and Joseph Marchand, University of Alberta—First to $15: Alberta's Minimum Wage Policy on Employment by Wages, Ages, and Places
Michael Collins, Jennifer Gregory and Kathleen McQueeney, U.S. Government Accountability Office—Income Inequality and Work at Older Ages | |
1.6 Work and Employment under COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan—Breakout Stream 6
Panelists: Nobuyuki Yamada, Komazawa University—Pandemic and Its Influences on Workers: Some Experiences in Japan
Koji Takahashi, The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training—Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Non-standard Employees in Japan | |
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2.1 Labor in Global Supply Chains Part II: Activism and Media in Supply Chains (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 1
Presenters: Yanhua Bird, Boston University; Jodi Short, University of California, Hastings; and Michael Toffel, Harvard University—Corporate Responses to Social Activism: A Resource Reconfiguration Perspective
Eddy Malesky, Duke University and Layna Mosley, Princeton University—Where are the Droids We Are Looking For? Automation Decisions in Developing Country Firms
Erin Leitheiser, Copenhagen Business School; Jette Steen Knudsen, Tufts University; and Jeremy Moon, Copenhagen Business School—Global North and Global South Evaluations of Supply Chain Governance: Media Portrayals of Post-Rana Plaza Safety?Initiatives
Mark Anner, Pennsylvania State University—Three Labor Mechanisms for Addressing Decent Work Governance Gaps in Global Value Chains | |
2.2 Challenges to Police Reform and Community Oversight in the Context of Labor Relations—Breakout Stream 2
Timothy L Davis, Burke, Williams, & Sorenson, LLP
Holly E. Oliva-Van Horsten, International Union of Police Associations, AFL-CIO | |
2.3 The Collaborative Enterprise: Implications for Work Systems, Employee Voice, Enterprise Success, and Trust—Breakout Stream 3
Panelists: Donald Phillibert, MD, NYC Health, Jacobi Medical Center and Gul Bahtyiar, MD, NYC Health, Woodhull—Building Trust and Engagement for Improved Patient and Staff Experience | |
2.4 The Impact of COVID-19 on Worker Rights and Protections—Breakout Stream 4
Panelists: James Brudney, Fordham University—Safety and Health Challenges Facing Frontline Essential Workers Under COVID-19
Renee M Gerni, Service Employees International Union—Health Care Sector Workers' Actions to Secure Rights During COVID-19
Karen Tynan, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.—Counseling Employers in Meatpacking and other Industries During COVID
Christiane Benner, IGMetall Union—Negotiation of Union-Industry Protocols Within the German Co-determination System | |
2.5 LERA Best Papers II: COVID-19 Part A (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Dina Bishara and Ian Greer, Cornell University—More Relevance, Less Power? Trade Unionism After COVID-19
Danielle Lamb, Ryerson University; Rafael Gomez, University of Toronto; and Milad Moghaddas, Ryerson University—Unions, COVID-19 Risk, and Pandemic Pay Premia: Evidence from the Canadian Labour Force Survey | |
2.6 Evidence and Advocacy for a Non-competitive Labor Market (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 6
Presenters: Kate Bahn, The Washington Center for Equitable Growth—Wage Discrimination and the Exploitation of Workers in the U.S. Labor Market
Ioana Elena Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania—Boosting Wages When U.S. Labor Markets are not Competitive
Ellora Derenoncourt, University of California Berkeley; Clemens Noelke and David Weil, Brandeis University—Spillovers From Voluntary Employer Minimum Wages | |
2:15 ‑ 3 pm |
Kimberly A. Lawrence, CVS Health Corporation
Rebecca Dixon, National Employment Law Project |
3:15 ‑ 4:15 pm | |
3.1 Labor in Global Supply Chains Part III: Firms and the Economics of Labor Compliance (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 1
Presenters: Raymond Robertson, Texas A&M University—Efficiency and Working Conditions: Evidence from Indonesian Garment Factories
Anil Verma, University of Toronto—The Role of Shop-floor Industrial Relations in Labour Standards Compliance: Qualitative Evidence from Garment Factories
Matthew Amengual, University of Oxford and Greg Distelhorst, University of Toronto—Order Overload? Demand Spikes and Labor Compliance in Global Supply Chains
Sarosh C. Kuruvilla, Cornell University and Chunyun Li, London School of Economics and Political Sciences—A View from the Other Side: Purchase Orders and Workforce Arrangements at Supplier Factories | |
3.2 Ethical Considerations of a Wrongful Termination Claim Through the Lens of the Virtual Hearing—Breakout Stream 2
Panelists: Anne-Marie Vercruysse Welch, Clark Hill, PLC—Ethical Issues Presented when a Termination Meeting is Secretly Recorded
M. Catherine Farrell, Pierce, Farrell, Tafelski & Wells, P.C.—Dealing with Challenges at the Hearing in a Virtual World | |
3.3 Organizing Young Workers—Breakout Stream 3
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3.4 COVID-19 and How Teachers Unions and School Districts Responded to the Pandemic—Breakout Stream 4
Anna Marie Chavez (invited), chief executive officer of the National School Boards Association
Alec MacGillis (invited), Journalist at ProPublica | |
3.5 LERA Best Papers III: COVID-19 Part B (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Abay Asfaw, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health—Occupation and Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Infection Rates
Lifei Chen and Christine Riordan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—People or Markets? An Empirical Examination of Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis Among Large U.S. Firms
Françoise Carré, University of Massachusetts-Boston and Chris Tilly, University of California, Los Angeles—How COVID-19 Has Shifted Retailers' Technological Trajectory and Resulting Impacts on Job Quality
Rebecca Wolfe and Jeff Nicklas, University of California, San Francisco—"You Can Start to Roll With the Punches": Parenting, Adaptability, and COVID-19 | |
3.6 Workplace Abuses and Economic Incentives to Speak Out (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 6
Presenters: Matthew Knepper, University of Georgia and Gordon Dahl, University of California, San Diego—Why is Sexual Harassment Underreported? The Value of Unemployment Amid the Threat of Retaliation
Matthew S. Johnson and Amanda Grittner, Duke University—When Workplace Oversight and Immigration Enforcement Collide: Does Deterring Worker Complaints Worsen Workplace Safety?
Alison Morantz, Stanford University; Aaron Sojourner, University of Minnesota; and Evan Starr, University of Maryland—Nondisclosure Agreement Enforceability and Sexual Harassment Complaints
Jing Cai, University of Maryland and Shing-Yi Wang, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania—Improving Management through Worker Evaluations: Evidence from Auto Manufacturing
Ian M. Schmutte, University of Georgia and Conrad Miller, University of California, Berkeley—Why Are Larger Employers More Racially Diverse? | |
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4:15 ‑ 5:15 pm | |
4.1 LERA Best Posters (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 1
Presenters: Elizabeth Arnold, Director, Berkeley Research Group and Chester Hanvey, Berkeley Research Group—Remote Work During COVID: What Factors Drive Hourly Employee Compliance with Timekeeping Requirements?
Stephen Havlovic, Laurentian University and Charles G. Smith, Otterbein College—The Impact of Collective Bargaining and Geographic Location on the Pay Rates of Professional Nurses: A Longitudinal Analysis (1970-1993)
Jiaming Zheng, Beijing Huaxia Jianlong Mining Science & Technology Co. Ltd—The Effect of Job-Housing Condition on Employees' Well-being: From the Perspective of Work-Life Balance
Tom Zaniello, Northern Kentucky University and National Labor College—The Precariat in Epidemic Cinema
Jiaojiao Qu, Taiyuan University of Technology and Xia Cao, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics—Exploring the Profiles of Perceived Job Insecurity for Non-standard Employees in China: A Pilot Study with LPA
Joey Soehardjojo and Rick Delbridge, Cardiff University—The Contestation of Dominance Effects in HR Practice Transfer: The Role of Meso-level Actors in Mediating Japanese-Indonesian Joint Ventures
Mengjie Lyu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—"Good" Jobs and "Bad" Jobs in Chinese State Sector: Examining the Power of "Bianzhi (Official Staffing Quota)" | |
4.2 Tips for Embracing Diversity in Selecting Neutrals for Labor and Employment Disputes (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 2
Rebekah Ratliff, President - Capital City Mediations, LLC | |
4.3 Strategies for Organizing Undergraduate Student Workers and Building Cross-Rank Worker Solidarity (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 3
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4.4 Adversarial or Collaborative: Are Both Effective?—Breakout Stream 4
Presenters: John Kallas, Cornell University—The Resurgent Strike: Union Revitalization Through Militant Identity
Justin Vinton, Rutgers University—Middle Management in Education: A Bottom Up Approach to Collaborative Partnership | |
4.5 LERA Best Papers IV: Gender (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Vidya Atal, Orkideh Gharehgozli and Luis San Vicente Portes, Montclair State University—The Pro-cyclical Unemployment Gender Gap: A Household Occupational Portfolio Choice?
Alyson Jane Gounden Rock, McGill University—A Narrative Review of Gender in the Field of IR Grounded in Its History
Auret van Heerden, Equiception and Kamila Hamza Ahmed, Intrinsic Consultancy—Has Participation in the Global Value Chain Empowered Female Factory Workers in Ethiopia? | |
4.6 Labor Market Effects of Occupational Regulation (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 6
Presenters: Janna Johnson, University of Minnesota—Occupational Licensing, Trailing Spouses, and Labor Market Attachment
Alicia Plemmons, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville—Occupational Regulation and Ethnic Enclaves
Darwyyn Deyo, San Jose State Univesity—Locked Out: The Labor Market Effects of Licensing Bans for Criminal Records
Nicholas Carollo, University of California, Los Angeles—The Impact of Occupational Licensing on Earnings and Employment: Evidence from State-Level Policy Changes
Brad Larsen, Stanford University
Michele Pellizzari, University of Geneva | |
5:30 ‑ 490 | |
Sunday | Conference Activities • 6/6/2021 |
10:30 ‑ 10:45 am | Audio Visual Test Session: Open to All—Plenary Stream
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11 am ‑ 12 pm | |
5.1 Labor and Democracy—Breakout Stream 1
Presenters: Wilma B. Liebman, LERA President-Elect and Program Chair—Industrial Democracy in the U.S. Past and Present
Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara—Sectoral Bargaining in the U.S., Historical Roots of 21st Century Renewal
Kenneth Roberts, Cornell University—Labor and Democracy: Constructing, Deepening and Defending Citizenship Rights
Chanda Chungu, University of Zambia—Labour and Challenges to Democracy: Selective African Perspectives on Labour Rights as Enhancers of Democratic Governance | |
5.2 The Impact of COVID-19 on Problem-solving, Collective Bargaining, Mediation, and Life Itself: Tools and Techniques for Coping in the U.S. and Abroad—Breakout Stream 2
Co-Chairs: Eileen B. Hoffman, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and Sarah Morgan, International Labour Organization Office for the United States Panelists: Kevin J. Wagner, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service—Use of Various Remote Platforms for Dispute Resolution | |
5.3 Future of Work: Information, Surveillance, and Workplace Control in the New Economy—Breakout Stream 3
Presenters: Kathryn Zickuhr, Washington Center for Equitable Growth—The Future of Worker Surveillance
Alexandra Mateescu, Data & Society Research Institute—Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance in the Domestic Care Industry
Luke Elliott-Negri, CUNY Graduate Center; Ruth Milkman, City University of New York Graduate Center; Kathleen Griesbach and Adam Reich, Columbia University—Back to the Future! Algorithmically-obscured Piece Rate Pay and Worker Resistance in the Gig Economy
Jasmine Hill, Stanford University—Good Jobs, Bad Intel: How Racial Inequality Persists in the Information Age Discussant: TBA TBA | |
5.4 LERA Competitive Papers I (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 4
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5.5 LERA Best Papers V: Race (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Virginia Parks and Ian Ross Baran, University of California Irvine—How Structural and Frontline Practices in a Union-Public Sector Job Training Program Matter for Racial and Gender Equity
Jesse Wursten, KU Leuven and Michael Reich, University of California, Berkeley—Do Minimum Wages Still Reduce Racial Inequality? Are White Workers Hurt?
Phela I. Townsend, Rutgers University—Being Black and Building Power: How Identity Shapes Worker Strategic Action in Crises
James A. Gross, Cornell University—Taking the Human Right to Work Seriously : Confronting Racism and Inequality in the United States | |
12:15 ‑ 1:15 pm | |
6.1 Jointly Managing Through A Pandemic: How to Run a People Intensive Manufacturing Operation During a Pandemic—Breakout Stream 1
Panelists: Shaun Whitehead, Ford Motor Company, Director of Manufacturing, Transmissions—Manufacturing Perspective | |
6.2 We're Not Immune: Implicit Bias Among Workplace Neutrals (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 2
Sandra Gangle, Retired Arbitrator | |
6.3 Centering Unequal Workplace Power: The Key to Restoring Economic Fairness, Freedom, Democracy, and Racial/Gender Equity—Breakout Stream 3
Jenny Yang, Urban Institute | |
6.4 LERA Competitive Papers II (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 4
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6.5 LERA Best Papers VI: Technical Change Part A (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Trevor Quan, Faun Rice and Mairead Matthews, Digital Think Tank by ICTC—Responsible Innovation in Canada and Beyond: Understanding and Improving the Social Impacts of Technology
Laurence Ales, Christophe Combemale, Erica Fuchs and Kate S. Whitefoot, Carnegie Mellon University—How It's Made: A General Theory of the Labor Implications of Technological Change
Mark Stuart and Simon Joyce, University of Leeds—New Technology and Industrial Relations: A Review and Reappraisal | |
1:45 ‑ 2:45 pm | |
7.1 Union Responses to New Technology—Breakout Stream 1
Brendan Danaher, Transport Workers Union of America—Union Responses To Technology in the Transportation Sector | |
7.2 Reflective Mediation Practice and Conflict Theory: Improving Mediation Outcomes Through a Better Understanding of the Varied Approaches to Conceptualizing Conflict (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 2
Todd Dickey, Syracuse University | |
7.3 Capital and Labor After Trump (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 3
Presenters: Michael Hillard, University of Southern Maine and Richard McIntyre, University of Rhode Island—Why Is There So Much Talk of Stakeholderism, and So Little of It?
Steven Greenhouse, Author and Former New York Times Reporter—Making Sense of White Industrial Workers and the 2020 Election
Wilma B. Liebman, LERA President-Elect and Program Chair—"Business, Labor, and the Divided (or United) Government After Trump"? | |
7.4 LERA Competitive Papers III (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 4
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7.5 LERA Best Papers VII: Technical Change Part B (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Larry Liam Ching Liu, Princeton University—The Relationship between Job Quality and Automatability of Occupations
Andrew Weaver and Suyeon Kang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Employer-Provided Training and Technical Change
Jonathan F Harris, New York University School of Law—Compensating and Retraining Workers Displaced through Automation
Turner Cotterman, Mitchell Small and Erica Fuchs, Carnegie Mellon University—Transitioning to Electrified PowerTrains: Labor and Environmental Manufacturing Outcomes | |
3 ‑ 4 pm | LERA General Membership Meeting—Plenary Stream
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4:15 ‑ 4:30 pm | Virtual Happy Hour, sponsored by MIT and Univ. of Toronto—All Streams
Wilma B. Liebman, LERA President-Elect and Program Chair |
Monday | Conference Activities • 6/7/2021 |
10 ‑ 10:15 am | Audio Visual Test Session: Open to All—Plenary Stream
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10:30 ‑ 11:15 am |
Fred Redmond, United Steelworkers
Johnna Torsone (invited), Pitney Bowes |
11:15 am ‑ 12:15 pm | |
8.1 LERA Award Winners Roundtable—Breakout Stream 1
Co-Chairs: Paul F. Clark, Pennsylvania State University and Janice Bellace, University of Pennsylvania | |
8.2 The Impact of COVID-19 on Workers and Businesses (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 2
Presenters: Kourtney Koebel and Dionne Pohler, University of Toronto—Labor Markets in Crisis: The Double Liability of Low-Wage Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Alycia Damp, Shannon Potter and Dionne Pohler, University of Toronto—COVID-19 and Organizations: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Jordan Lewis-Morden and Dionne Pohler, University of Toronto—Co-operatives in a Time of Crisis: The Impact of Banking with a Credit Union During COVID-19 on Business Viability | |
8.3 Weathering COVID Without Work (Symposium)—
Breakout Stream 3
Presenters: Alex Bartik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Marianne Bertrand and Feng Lin, University of Chicago; Jesse Rothstein and Matt Unrath, University of California, Berkeley—Measuring the Labor Market at the Onset of the COVID-19 Crisis
Bradley L. Hardy, American University; Charles M. Hokayem, Centre College; and Stephen Roll, Washington University in St. Louis—Racial Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes Due to COVID-19
Daniel Schneider, Harvard Kennedy School; Kristen Harknett, University of California, San Francisco; and Annette Gailliot, Harvard Kennedy School—The Consequences of Unemployment for Service Sector Workers during COVID-19
Anna Gassman-Pines and Elizabeth O. Ananat, Duke University—Identifying Effects of Jobs with Unpredictable Scheduling on Worker and Family Well-being: Evidence from Multiple Approaches | |
8.4 Where is Critical Race Theory in the Field of Industrial Relations?—Breakout Stream 4
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8.5 LERA Best Papers VIII: International Part A (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Lorenzo Frangi, University of Québec at Montréal and Tingting Zhang, Merrimack College—Global Union Federations in Affiliates' Websites: Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces at Play in Organizational Identity
Marissa Brookes, University of California, Riverside—Transnational Labor Campaigns: How Many, Where, and When?
Lorenzo Frangi, University of Québec at Montréal; Jack Fiorito, Florida State University; and Tingting Zhang, Merrimack College—Still Two Different Twins? Union Attitudinal and Behavioral Insights Across the USA-Canada Border | |
11:15 am ‑ 12:15 pm | NCAC Chapter Representatives Meeting—Committee Stream
Co-Chairs: William Canak, Middle Tennessee State University (ret.) and Bonnie Castrey, Dispute Resolution Services |
12:30 ‑ 1:30 pm | |
9.1 Will COVID-19 Change U.S. Labor-Management Relations For Good?—
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9.2 Racial Economic Inequality in the American South and Regional Economic Policy (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 2
Presenters: Robert Manduca, University of Michigan—The Intersection of Racial and Regional Economic Inequality
Gbenga Ajilore, Center for American Progress—Southern State Economic Development and Racial Inequality
Chris Becker, Stanford University—Historical Lessons From the American South for Addressing Regional Inequality
Jaimie Worker, Economic Policy Institute—Preempting Progress: State Interference in Local Policymaking Prevents People of Color, Women, and Low-income Workers from Making Ends Meet in the South | |
9.3 How Fair Workweek Laws are Addressing the Economic Challenges and Harms Caused by Growing Part-time Worker Underemployment in the U.S.—Breakout Stream 3
Presenters: Lonnie Golden, Penn State Abington and Jaeseung Kim, University of South Carolina—The Involuntary Part-time Work and Underemployment Problem in the U.S. Panelists: Autumn Weintraub, SEIU 32BJ—The Role of New York City's Fair Workweek Law in Safeguarding the Economic Security of Retail and Fast Food Workers
Rachel Deutsch, The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD)—How Fair Workweek Laws Across the U.S. are Addressing Part-time Worker Underemployment | |
9.4 Faculty Voice in Campus Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis: An International Perspective—Breakout Stream 4
Presenters: Greg J. Bamber, Monash University (Melbourne) and Alison Barnes, The National Tertiary Education Union—Australian Faculty Union's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Rafael Gomez, University of Toronto—Dealing with COVID at a Large Canadian University With a Strong Faculty Union
Ana Lopes, University of the West of England and Sue Abbott, Newcastle University—The Response of UK Faculty Unions to the COVID-19 Crisis
Rebecca Kolins Givan, Rutgers University—Rutgers' Faculty Union's Role in Giving Faculty, Other Workers, and the Community a Voice in COVID-19 Planning
Paul F. Clark, Pennsylvania State University—What Happens When a Large University Without a Faculty Union Addresses the Pandemic?: You Get a Top Down Plan | |
9.5 LERA Best Papers IX: International Part B (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Joey Soehardjojo, Cardiff University and Guglielmo Meardi, Scuola Normale Superiore—Tracing Power and Influence in Institutional Diversity: Competing HR Models in Japanese and Indonesian Joint Ventures
Juliana Brandao, Holly Gibbs, Jane Collins and Lisa Naughton, University of Wisconsin-Madison—Using Public and Private Initiatives to Confront Modern Slavery: Lessons From Cattle Production in Pará, Brazil
Weihao Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—The Effects of Populism on Management Views of Employee Consultation: Evidence from European Workplaces
Salil Sapre, Michigan State University—Going Global but Staying Local: The Mechanics of a Local Labor Control Regime in Export-Oriented Garment Manufacturing in India | |
12:30 ‑ 1:30 pm | NCAC Chapter Administration Workshop—Committee Stream
Co-Chairs: William Canak, Middle Tennessee State University (ret.) and Bonnie Castrey, Dispute Resolution Services |
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3 ‑ 4 pm | |
10.1 Teaching Employment Relations and Collective Bargaining in Higher Education—Breakout Stream 1
Michael David Maffie, Pennsylvania State University
Tamara Lee, Rutgers University
Christine Riordan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
10.2 Labor Market Opportunity and Economic Security for Native Americans (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 2
Presenters: Randall Akee, University of California, Los Angeles; Emilia Simeonova, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School; and Maggie R. Jones, United States Census Bureau—Do Cash Transfers During Childhood Reduce Racial Income Inequality in Adulthood? Evidence from American Indian Casino Cash Transfers
Blythe George, University of California, Berkeley—Conceptions of Work and "the Body": Implications for the Labor Market Preferences of World Renewal Men with Criminal Records
Jeffrey Burnette, Rochester Institute of Technology—Challenges of Collecting Education Data for Native Communities | |
10.3 Labor Studies and the Future of Work(ers)—Breakout Stream 3
Presenters: Tobias Schulze-Cleven and Todd Vachon, Rutgers University—Revaluing Work(ers): Toward a Democratic and Sustainable Future
Saul Rubinstein, Rutgers University and John McCarthy, Cornell University—Scaling Collaborative School Reform
Michelle Van Noy, Heather McKay and Alysa Hannon, Rutgers University—Challenging Neoliberal Education Policy from Within the Paradigm
Martin Krzywdzinski, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) | |
10.4 Impacts of COVID-19 on App-based Work and Worker Organization—Breakout Stream 4
Panelists: Andrew Wolf, University of Wisconsin, Madison—COVID-19 and the Fissured Workplace: How Declining Employment Standards Socialized Corporate Risk and Made the COVID-19 Pandemic Worse
Magally A. Miranda Alcazar, University of California, Los Angeles—Coronavirus, Care, and the Future of Work
Nantina Vgontzas, AI Now Institute, New York University—Striking for Control: COVID-19, Climate, and Abolition at Amazon | |
10.5 LERA Best Papers X: Nature of Work Part A (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Jenna E. Myers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Whose Interest Is It? Worker Value Selling for the Representation of Low-powered Stakeholders During Technology Development
Xincheng Qiu and Eric Jincheng Huang, University of Pennsylvania—Labor Misallocation with Precautionary Saving
Jeongrock Kim, Tasneem Omar Ava, Jalana Ellis, Daniela Febres and Amanda Klavert, University of Toronto—Retooling the Double-Edged Sword: Exploring the Impact of Functional Heterogeneity on Informal Cross-Functional Collaboration | |
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11.2 Competition and Institutions in Labor Markets (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 2
Presenters: Anna Stansbury and Gregor Schubert, Harvard University and Bledi Taska, Burning Glass Technologies—Employer Concentration and Outside Options
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and Eric Posner, University of Chicago—Labor Monopsony and the Limits of the Law
Michael Lipsitz, Federal Trade Commission and Mark Tremblay, Miami University—Noncompete Agreements through the Lens of Antitrust | |
11.3 Teacher Compensation, Education, and Unequal Opportunity (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 3
Presenters: Eunice Hahn, University of Utah—Teacher Compensation and Student Performance: Evidence from National Data on Districts' Finances and Standardized Test Scores
Patrice Mareschal and Jeffrey H. Keefe, Rutgers University—Better Pay and Unequal Educational Opportunity
Sylvia A. Allegretto, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute—Trends in the Teacher Wage and Compensation Penalties Through 2019 | |
11.4 Broadening the Scope and Strategies of Organizing, Collective Action, and Solidarity: Emerging Scholarship and Insights for Practice (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 4
Presenters: Andrew Minster, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Disrupting the Rhythm of the Night: Collective Action Among Nightlife Entertainers During COVID-19
Carla Lima Aranzaes, Christian Ibsen, Maite Tapia and Phillip DeOrtentiis, Michigan State University—Solidarity with Temporary Workers?
Benjamin Aaron Kreider, Brandeis University—A Tale of Two Campaigns: Opportunities and Challenges for Collaboration between Immigrant Worker Centers and Unions | |
11.5 LERA Best Papers XI: Nature of Work Part B (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Chia-Hao Ho and Constantine Manolchev, University of Exeter—Bullying in the Fabric Life: A Spatial Conceptualisation of Bullying in the UK Health Sector
Yea Hee Ko, University of Wisconsin-Madison—Unpacking the Challenges and Opportunities of Personal Specialization
Bulin Zhang and Xiangmin (Helen) Liu, Rutgers University—To Gain Knowledge and Support: The Online Discussion Topics for Ride-hailing Platform Workers - A Text Mining Perspective | |
Tuesday | Conference Activities • 6/8/2021 |
10:30 ‑ 10:45 am | Audio Visual Test Session: Open to All—Plenary Stream
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11 am ‑ 12 pm | Featured Speakers: Oren Cass, American Compass—The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America |
12:15 ‑ 1:15 pm | |
12.1 Technology and the Future of Work—Breakout Stream 1
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12.2 Labor Contestation at Walmart Brazil and Limits of Global Diffusion in Latin America: Authors Meet Critics—Breakout Stream 2
Presenters: Katiuscia Galhera, Dourados Federal University—Uneasy Co-Existence: Conflictual Cooperation and Repressive Familialism at Walmart Brazil
Scott B. Martin, Columbia University—Divergent National Patterns of Labor Contestation Surrounding Walmart: Comparisons with Argentina, Chile, and Mexico
Joao Paulo Candia Veiga, Universidade de Sao Paulo—Analyzing Walmart's Competitive Decline and Exit from Brazil: Labor Claims and Failures of Global Diffusion
Chris Tilly, University of California, Los Angeles | |
12.3 Political Parties as Employment Relations Actors (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 3
Presenters: Ryan Lamare, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and John W. Budd, University of Minnesota—The Changing Engagement of Political Parties in Industrial Relations: A Comparative, Longitudinal Analysis of Political Party Manifestos
Marick Masters, Wayne State University and Raymond F. Gibney, Penn State Harrisburg—The Role of Unions in Democratic Presidential Politics
Arianna Tassinari, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies - MPIfG—Disintermediation or Marriages of Convenience? Anti-System Parties and Social Concertation on Southern Europe | |
12.4 LERA Best Papers XII: Law and Regulations Part A (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 4
Presenters: Stacy A. Hickox and Alia Sloan, Michigan State University—Perspectives on the Hiring Process from both Employers and Applicants with a Criminal Record
Aibak Hafeez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Resolving Discrimination Claims in a Post-dispute Voluntary Arbitration System: An Empirical Analysis of the Securities Industry
Assaf Shlomo Bondy, University of California, Los Angeles and Jonathan Preminger, Cardiff University—Embracing Juridification, Renewing Collective IR: Collective Response to the 'Employment Rights Regime' | |
12.5 LERA Best Papers XIII: Labor Unions and Employee Voice Part A (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Mark R Reiff, University of California at Davis—The Union as a Basic Institution of Society
Hye Jin Rho, Michigan State University and Christine Riordan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Exercising Voice in the Decentralized Work of Travel Nursing
Youngrong Lee, University of Toronto—Navigating the Aftermath of Capital Mobility in the Gig Economy: Understanding the Impact on Gig Workers and their Resistance in Ontario, Canada
Lisa Kresge, University of California, Berkeley—Union Collective Bargaining Agreement Strategies in Response to Data-Driven Technologies | |
12.6 Building the Just Purchasing Consortium: Institutional Food Purchasing and the Protection of Workers (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 6
Panelists: Mark Pearce, Workers Rights Institute, Georgetown University—Legal and Contractual Aspects of University Procurement
Sapna Thottathil (invited), Associate Director of Sustainability, University of California—Workers Rights within the Context of the Broader Movement for Sustainable Institutions
Ravi Anupindi (invited), Center for Value Chain Innovation, University of Michigan—Aligning Universities Commitment to Human Rights with the Business Side of Campus Operations
Patrick Dixon, Georgetown University—The Acute Challenges to Workplace Safety within the Food Production Sector | |
1:30 ‑ 2:30 pm | |
13.1 Fast Food Franchising and Low wage Work: A Multi-disciplinary Research Project (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 1
Presenters: Tashlin Lakhani and Rosemary Batt, Cornell University—How Do Franchise Brand Requirements and Control Mechanisms Affect Pay and Working Conditions in Franchisee Units?
Kati Griffith, Cornell University and Andrew Elmore, University of Miami—Franchisor Power as Employment Control
Can Ouyang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University—Is Growth a Blessing or an Obstacle? Effect of Franchise Growth on Franchisees' Investment in Human Resource Management
Lance Compa, Cornell University and Tony Royle, University of York—Command Central: A Comparative Analysis of McDonald's Franchising and Collective Bargaining in Five Countries
John A. Gordon, Pacific Management Consulting Group | |
13.2 Comparative Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis on Work and Employment Relations (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 2
Presenters: Heather Connolly, University of Manchester and Paul Stewart, Grenoble Ecole de Management—"We're All in it Together, We All Suffer the Same": COVID-19 and the Persistence National Variations in Employment Regulation in France and the UK
Martin Behrens, Boeckler Foundation and Andi Pekarek, University of Melbourne—Delivering the Goods? German Industrial Relations Institutions During the COVID-19 Crisis
David Peetz, Griffith University; Sean O'Brady, McMaster University; Johanna Weststar, Western University; Rae Cooper and Marian Baird, University of Sydney—Contradictions of Control and Insecurity During the COVID-19 Crisis in Australian and Canadian Universities
Christian Ibsen, Michigan State University; Ryan Lamare, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Hye Jin Rho, Michigan State University; Christine Riordan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Maite Tapia, Michigan State University—Do Institutions Mitigate Risks for Exposed Workers during COVID? Evidence from a Cross-National Survey of Danish and American Workers | |
13.3 Putting Labor's Capital to Work (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 3
Tom Croft, Steel Valley Authority—Harnessing Labor's Capital to Make a Better World: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach
Randy Kinder, AFL-CIO Investment Trust Corporation—Investing in the Real World: Competitive Returns, Creating Jobs | |
13.4 LERA Best Papers XIV: Law and Dispute Resolution (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 4
Presenters: Adam D.K. King, Leah Vosko and Olena Lyubchenko, York University and Veldon Coburn, Institute of Indigenous Research and Studies—Exploring the Origins of "the Core of Indianness": Four B Manufacturing v The United Garment Workers of America (1979)
David Nash and Deborah Hann, Cardiff University—Ships Passing in the Night? Strategic Human Resource Management and Alternative Dispute Resolution in the U.K.
John Revitte and Robert F. Banks, Michigan State University—Dispute Resolution Among the 14 Big Ten Universities Regarding Their Non-Union Faculty and Academic Staff Grievances | |
13.5 LERA Best Papers XV: Labor Unions and Employee Voice Part A (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Eric Benjamin Blanc, New York University—Rank-and-File Organizing and Digital Mobilizing in the 2018 Teachers' Strikes
Rachel Aleks, University of Windsor and John Kallas, Cornell University—Starting Off on the Right Foot: How Organizing Tactics Affect First Contract Negotiations
Andrew Keyes, Florida State University; Zachary A. Russell, Xavier University; and Jack Fiorito, Florida State University—Workplace Instrumentality, Prosocial Instrumentality, and Union Satisfaction | |
13.6 The Role of Education and Training in the Economic Recovery (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 6
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2:45 ‑ 3:45 pm | |
14.1 Data Work and Multi-Stakeholder Consortia: Transformational Developments Accelerated by the COVID Pandemic—Breakout Stream 1
Panelists: Matt Mayernick, National Center for Atmospheric Research—Launching a Consortium -- The Council of Data Facilities
Michael David Maffie, Pennsylvania State University—Collaboration in Contested Terrain -- the NYC Uber Drivers
Susan Winter, University of Maryland | |
14.2 Humanitarian Crisis at Sea: The Failure of Labor Governance to Protect Seafarers—Breakout Stream 2
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14.3 Essential Infrastructure: Leveraging Worker Voice and Employer Engagement in Pandemic Response—Breakout Stream 3
Panelists: Rebecca Hanson, SEIU UHW & Joint Employer Education Fund/Shirley Ware Education Center—SEIU UHW & Joint Education Fund: Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Adine Forman, Hospitality Training Academy—Hospitality Training Academy: Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Luis Sandoval, Building Skills Partnership—Building Skills Partnership: Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic | |
14.4 LERA Best Papers XVI: Labor-Management Relations (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 4
Presenters: Rafael Gomez, University of Toronto; Alex Bryson, University College London; and Akshay Mohan, University of Toronto—Trust and Cooperation in Labor-Management Relations
Salil Gadgil, University of California, Los Angeles Anderson and Jason Sockin, University of Pennsylvania—Caught in the Act: How Corporate Scandals Hurt Employees
Lian Zhou, Guangdong University of Technology; Chunyun Li, London School of Economics and Political Sciences; Mingwei Liu, Rutgers University; Long Zhang, Hunan University; and Jonathan Booth, London School of Economics and Political Science—Employee-Organization Relationships and Workplace Deviance: A Marxist Perspective
Antonio Falato, Federal Reserve Board; Hyunseob Kim, Cornell University; and Till M. von Wachter, University of California, Los Angeles—Shareholder Power and the Decline of Labor | |
14.5 LERA Best Papers XVII: Wages (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Anil Verma, University of Toronto—Low Wage Work: Can Workers Escape Low Wages? Recent Evidence from a Survey & Implications for Policy
Matthew Hinkel, Michigan State University—Misclassified Information: The Effect of Prevailing Wage Laws on Informal Construction Employment
Zhengxiong Yang and Shiwei Zhang, Jilin University and Mingwei Liu, Rutgers University—Crossover Design and the Evaluation of the Labor Market Effects of Minimum Wages in China | |
14.6 LERA Best Papers XVIII: Labor and Employment Relations (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 6
Presenters: Gabrielle Pepin, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research—The Effects of Child Care Subsidies on Paid Child Care Participation and Labor Market Outcomes
Rosemary Batt, Cornell University and Eileen Appelbaum, Center for Economic and Policy Research—Ownership Structures and Financial Strategies in Hospitals: Evidence from Private Equity Owned and Non-Profit Systems
Martin St-Arnaud and Pier-Luc Bilodeau, Universite Laval—Construction Labour Referral in the Province of Quebec after the Prohibition of Union Hiring Halls: A Realist Evaluation
Sarah Soroui and Douglas Soorian Nevins, Brandeis University – Placeless Workforce Development? Exploring the Implications of Virtual Workforce Development Services for Local Workforce Policy |