When you attempt to participate in the replacement of your labor with AI but accidentally prove you, a human, need to do your job.

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NEW: A judge caught a court reporter making AI-generated errors in a court transcript, and put stenographers on notice for their use of AI.  "Based upon the types of errors reviewed, it appears that generative artificial intelligence may have assisted with the preparation of this transcript."

Went on Spectrum's the Big Deal show to talk about how the proposed congressional gig work portable benefits bill is just a backdoor attempt to massively expand independent contractor status and undermine labor and employment rights www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqGw...

Debate over access to benefits for gig workers | The Big Deal

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Happy to share that "Polarization and Democracy in Latin America" is out now with @uchicagopress.bsky.social and available in multiple formats. If it looks interesting, please consider requesting it at your university library! Check it out 👇 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Polarization and Democracy in Latin America

An insightful examination of Latin America’s contemporary democratic landscape and how it is marked by patterns of polarization and volatility. Although Latin American democracies have shown considera...

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NEW ANALYSIS: Federal regulatory agencies charged with enforcing wage and workplace safety conditions are taking drastically fewer actions against companies, and proposed rule changes by the administration will give workers even fewer protections. 🧵 goodjobsfirst.org/worker-prote...

Worker Protections in Freefall: The Collapse of Federal Labor Enforcement under the Second Trump Administration - Good Jobs First

Worker Protections in Freefall: The Collapse of Federal Labor Enforcement under the Second Trump Administration - Good Jobs First

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Check out Alex Kowalski's excellent new paper on robots in fulfillment warehouses. We think this is the first published paper that was first work-shopped at Cornell's new Sociology of Organizations, Labor, and Economy Seminar! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Our new chapter (#3) “Toward a Sociology of Labour Regulation and Enforcement in the Context of the Modern Fissured Workplace” in the Handbook on the Sociology of Work is out now. Excellent volume with chapters from lots of amazing people! www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

In his last hours as Mayor Eric Adams vetoed every progressive labor reform passed this month. This was not based on conviction but a corrupt man trying to add zeros to a lobbying career that won’t pan out because he has in fact zero juice.

Gotta love the student whose fake AI citation was attributed to ME!!!

Algorithmic management and AI making decisions to fire people is not only morally unexplainable but is prone to error and racial bias. NYC took a massive step forward yesterday in providing just cause protections and the right to arbitration for gig workers. www.amny.com/news/city-co...

City Council approves ‘unfair deactivations’ safeguards for rideshare drivers, delivery workers – amNewYork

The City Council approved on Thursday a pair of measures designed to bolster protections for app-based rideshare drivers and delivery workers against firings

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My old friend Alex Bores is running for Congress and gave a great interview to Odd Lots on NYS’ efforts to regulate AI open.spotify.com/episode/067Q...

Meet the Politician the AI Industry Is Trying to Stop

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Tomorrow is shaping up to be a massive day for workers’ rights in NYC with votes on just cause protections for gig workers and street vendor licensing reform. I have written reports on why both are needed. www.ilr.cornell.edu/carow/carow-... www.ilr.cornell.edu/worker-insti...

Just Cause for NYC Gig Workers Provides Human Review for Algorithmic Firings

App workers receive minimal benefits and protection. Termination decisions are made by algorithms, which are prone to error and discriminatory customer abuse. ILR Assistant Professor Andrew Wolf descr...

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Aurora borealis over Cornell on my walk home tonight.

GOP bill to destroy the NLRA www.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw...

What's happening here? "President Donald J. Trump’s bold economic agenda is delivering real results for American families — with new data from DoorDash’s State of Local Commerce report..." www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

NEW DATA: Lower Prices, Bigger Paychecks

President Donald J. Trump’s bold economic agenda is delivering real results for American families — with new data from DoorDash’s State of Local Commerce

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I wrote a policy brief on why NYC’s just cause protections for gig workers bills are needed given the prevalence of discrimination in the industry. @nytwa.bsky.social @workersjusticep.bsky.social

Just Cause for NYC Gig Workers Provides Human Review for Algorithmic Firings

App workers receive minimal benefits and protection. Termination decisions are made by algorithms, which are prone to error and discriminatory customer abuse. ILR Assistant Professor Andrew Wolf descr...

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#CornellILR's @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social, assistant professor of global labor and work, provides expert commentary on the dynamics of ethnic groups in street vending and the challenges vendors face under current regulations.

Fear and Anger Fill New York’s Canal Street After Immigration Raid

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Full moon over Cornell University at sunset. Wish I had had a better camera. And that I wasn’t standing in front of the waste water treatment plant.

Cornell University Library is hiring two Processing Archivists! Come work with us! jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

Processing Archivist (2 Positions) - Cornell University Library in Ithaca, New York, United States of America | Library & Museum at Cornell University

Apply for Processing Archivist (2 Positions) - Cornell University Library job with Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States of America. Library & Museum at Cornell University

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On Friday, the NYC Council Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection discussed a local law to amend administrative code in relation to the wrongful deactivation of app-based delivery workers. #CornellILR's @mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social submitted testimony before city council on this measure.

🚨 New Paper! 🚨 Why do employers violate employment law? Turns out the answer is radically different for small businesses, especially IBIPOC businesses whose marginallization diminishes HR capacity. We find this complicates govt enforcement efforts. Out now in IREL doi.org/10.1111/irel...

Threats to Legitimacy in Local Employment Law Enforcement Regimes Among Immigrant and Racially Marginalized Small Business Owners

U.S. municipal labor enforcement agencies find they are often inundated with complaints from small, immigrant- or minority-owned firms. This undermines these agencies' efforts to engage in strategic ....

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Call for Bordeaux 2026 Mini-Conference Theme Proposals! SASE invites scholars to propose mini-conference themes for its 38th Annual Meeting at Sciences Po Bordeaux, 1–3 July 2026 (virtual: 22–24 June) Deadline: 18 Sept 2025 Details: sase.org/news/call-fo... #SASE2026

Call for Bordeaux 2026 Mini Conference Proposals - SASE

38th Annual SASE Conference Location & Date: Sciences Po Bordeaux, France — 1–3 July 2026 Virtual events: 22–24 June 2026 Submit your mini-conference proposal by 18 September 2025 via this form What I...

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Pretty funny that both the unions and the bosses made the same calculus on endorsing Cuomo.

Teddy Schleifer@teddyschleifer.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's a fun thing that a top donor to Andrew Cuomo's super PAC just told me.

Excited about Zohran Mamdani? Read my recent book chapter about the NYTWA hungry strike which he participated in a fought endlessly with Brad Lander to win. andrewwolfsociology.com/wp-content/u...

Good book from the summer office.

And the people likely to suffer the most are not the detested cultural elites, but admin staff, grounds crew, janitors, food workers, adjuncts, lecturers, lab techs, grad students. That tenured Marxist in the English dept is keeping their job, even if their travel budget is going to be cut

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · last yr.

exhibit #317 higher ed is the largest employer in 10 states, 60 cities, dozens and dozens of counties, like Tompkins below. attacking universities is economic sabotage. ithacavoice.org/2025/06/layo...

📢 CFP: Columbia–Cornell Jr Scholars Workshop on the Political Economy of Work 🗽 Dec 5–6, 2025 in NYC! Open to early-career scholars in law, soc, econ, poli sci, history. Submit 1p abstract by Sept 15 ✅ Feedback + mentoring ✅ Travel/lodging support (if needed) 🔗 forms.gle/vDkCHyenE5yQ...

ICE recently conducted a raid of farm workers, seemingly focused on pro-union worker leaders. On Friday in New York the federal agents stopped a bus and, armed with a list, appeared to single out those who have been doing union organizing for years. theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...

“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case

“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a UFW official about an ICE raid in New York.

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BUFFALO, NY: We are mobilizing to protest the arrest and detention of a group of UFW farm worker leaders we believe are being held at the Batavia ICE detention center. We believe targeting known union supporters in the name of immigration “enforcement” is an outrage. These workers must be released.

How does local place & its socio-political & histories of racism shape gig economy algorithms? Our take out now in @bjireditor.bsky.social "‘Be Your Own Boss?’ Explaining Variation in Worker Response to the Gig Economy's Ideology in the Global North and South" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

‘Be Your Own Boss?’ Explaining Variation in Worker Response to the Gig Economy's Ideology in the Global North and South

The proponents of app-based, algorithmically mediated employment seek to create an easily transferable uniform labour process around the world. These apps classify their workers as independent contra...

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