IWER

IWER Faculty Publications

Recent Books

Shaping the Future of Work: A Handbook for Action and a New Social Contract.

Kochan, Thomas, and Lee Dyer. New York, NY: Routledge, 2021.

Faculty: Thomas Kochan
Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do about It.

Kelly, Erin L. and Phyllis Moen. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 2021 Paperback Edition.

Faculty: Erin Kelly
Creating Good Jobs: An Industry-Based Strategy.

Osterman, Paul (Ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020.

Faculty: Paul Osterman
A Field in Flux: Sixty Years of Industrial Relations.

McKersie, Robert B. Cornell, NY: Cornell Publishing, 2019.

Recent and Forthcoming Journal Articles

"Book Review: Our Least Important Asset."

Osterman, Paul. Review of Our Least Important Asset: Why the Relentless Focus on Finance and Accounting Is Bad for Business and Employees, by Peter Cappelli. ILR Review, August 2024.

Faculty: Paul Osterman
"The Fulfillment Center Intervention Study: Protocol for a Group-Randomized Control Trial of a Participatory Workplace Intervention."

Kelly, Erin L., Kirsten F. Siebach, Grace DeHorn, and Megan Lovejoy. PLoS ONE Vol. 19, No. 7 (2024): e0305334.

Faculty: Erin Kelly
"Points of Departure: Family Leave Policy and Women’s Representation in Management in U.S. Organizations."

Mun, Eunmi, Shawna Vican, and Erin L. Kelly. Social Forces Vol. 2024, No. soae080 (2024).

Faculty: Erin Kelly
"“Drafting a Letter” for People Dealing with Harassment or Bullying."

Rowe, Mary. Journal of the International Ombuds Association Vol. 16, No. 2 (2023): 1-17.

Faculty: Mary Rowe
"Using Organizational Values and Mission to Guide Strategic Planning."

Rowe, Mary. Journal of the International Ombudsman Association Vol. 16, No. 2 (2023): 1-5.

Faculty: Mary Rowe
"Employee Cardiometabolic Risk Following a Cluster-Randomized Workplace Intervention From the Work, Family and Health Network, 2009–2013."

Berkman, Lisa F., Erin L. Kelly, Leslie B. Hammer, Frank Mierzwa, Todd Bodner, Tay McNamara, et al. American Journal of Public Health Vol. 113, No. 12 (2023): 1322-1331.

"BELONGING: The Feeling That We 'Belong' May Depend in Part on 'Affirmations'."

Rowe, Mary. Journal of the International Ombudsman Association Vol. 16, No. 2 (2023): 1-7.

Faculty: Mary Rowe
"Tackling the UK’s Regional Economic Inequality: Binding Constraints and Avenues for Policy Intervention."

Stansbury, Anna, Dan Turner, and Ed Balls. Contemporary Social Science Vol. 18, No. 3-4 (2023): 318-356.

Faculty: Anna Stansbury
"How Do Employer Practices Affect Economic Mobility?"

Kelly, Erin L., Hazhir Rahmandad, Nathan Wilmers, and Aishwara Yadama. ILR Review Vol. 76, No. 5 (2023): 792-832.

"The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem."

Stansbury, Anna, and Robert Schultz. Journal of Economic Perspectives Vol. 37, No. 4 (2023): 207-230.

Faculty: Anna Stansbury
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Recent Book Chapters and Cases

"Why do Biologists and Chemists do Safety Differently? The Reproduction of Cultural Variation through Pragmatic Regulation."

Silbey, Susan. In The New Pragmatist Sociology: Inquiry, Agency, and Democracy, edited by Christopher Winship, Isaac Reed, and Neil Gross, 256-304. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2022.

"The Importance of Bystanders in Threat Assessment and Management."

Borum, Randy, and Mary Rowe. In International Handbook of Threat Assessment, edited by J. Reid Meloy and Jens Hoffmann, 423-437. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021. Download Preprint.

"Improving Job Quality In Long Term Care."

Osterman, Paul. In Creating Good Jobs: An Industry-Based Strategy, edited by Paul Osterman, 115-144. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020.

Faculty: Paul Osterman
"Chapter 8: Productivity and Pay: Is the Link Broken."

Stansbury, Anna, and Lawrence H. Summers. In Facing Up to Low Productivity Growth, edited by Adam S. Posen and Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Washington, D.C.: Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2019. SSRN Preprint.

Other Recent Publications

"Bystander Reporting Helps Prevent Mass Violence."

Cilke, Taylor and Mary Rowe. CREST Security Review, October 2024.

Faculty: Mary Rowe
"What It Takes to Form a Union — and Where to Begin."

Kochan, Thomas and John S. Ahlquist. Harvard Business Review, October 7, 2024.

Faculty: Thomas Kochan
"Vote Yes to Let Workers in the Rideshare Sector Unionize."

Kochan, Thomas. CommonWealth Beacon, October 2, 2024.

Faculty: Thomas Kochan
"Why CEOs Should Want Better Enforcement of Labor Law."

Stansbury, Anna. The Hill, September 12, 2024.

Faculty: Anna Stansbury
"Good Labor Day News: Young Workers Driving Union Activism. We Need Them to Keep Momentum."

Kochan, Thomas. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 2024.

Faculty: Thomas Kochan
"More Autonomy for Frontline Workers Supports Higher-Paying Jobs."

Dylan Nelson, Nathan Wilmers, and Letian Zhang (W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research). Kalamazoo, MI: August 2024.

Faculty: Nathan Wilmers
"The Rise of the 'Union Curious'."

John S. Ahlquist, Jake Grumbach, and Thomas Kochan. July 2024.

Faculty: Thomas Kochan
"The US Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem."

Stansbury, Anna. VoxEU, November 9, 2023.

Faculty: Anna Stansbury
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