Overview
ILR Worker Institute Research Fellowship Program
At its heart, the Worker Institute views its work as a contribution to reversing the growing inequality, now at historic levels, which undermines the economic and social sustainability of a vibrant democratic society. The Institute provides the nation’s most comprehensive education, training, research, and organizational support for union leaders and worker advocates. Worker Institute research fellows, sometimes in small teams, will have the opportunity to work directly with Ithaca-based faculty and ILR labor extension faculty based in NYC.
The fellowship program’s goal is to provide ILR students with a unique opportunity to contribute to important projects concerning workers and unions, expand their research skills, learn about potential career paths and interact with faculty, labor leaders and other fellows.
The main selection criteria include a strong academic record and a demonstrated interest in one of the Worker Institute’s research areas.
The ILR Labor Action Tracker – This project builds a database and interactive map visualization that captures labor strike and protest activity in the United States. Given serious shortcomings in official sources of data, we compile information from existing databases, traditional media, and social media to document a variety of workplace-based actions. The primary research responsibilities for the research fellow will be to gather data on strikes and protests and enter them into the database. Our research group meets regularly to discuss strike and protest events, and to continually refine our methodology. - with Johnnie Kallas, Eli Friedman and Deepa Kylasam Iyer.
Award notifications for Fall 2024 fellows will be announced sometime by August 2024.
