Industrial and Labor Relations

Cornell Rewind: 'Above all nations is humanity'

Organized by Modesto Quiroga, Cornell’s Cosmopolitan Club first met Nov. 10, 1904, in Barnes Hall, with 60 students attending. For the next five decades, the Cosmopolitan Club fostered international awareness and elevated peaceful thoughts.

A conversation with Harry Katz, Cornell's interim provost

Harry C. Katz, dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations from 2005-14, was appointed Cornell’s interim provost effective Nov. 14. He spoke with the Chronicle Nov. 17 about his new position.

ILR's Gary Fields wins International Labor Economics Prize

Gary Fields, a member of Cornell’s economics department and the ILR School's John P. Windmuller Chair in International and Comparative Labor, won the 2014 IZA Prize in Labor Economics.

Feeling entitled leads to more creativity, study shows

An ILR School study finds that a feeling of entitlement leads to greater creativity, a finding that has implications for the work place.

Alienated voters have turned U.S. into a plutocracy

At the Conference on the Histories of Capitalism on campus Nov. 7, Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson said the U.S. is devolving into a plutocracy due to disengaged voters.

Nominations sought for new faculty fellowship

Nominations of underrepresented tenured faculty as sought for the Public Voices Fellowship, a new initiative to increase the public impact of the nation’s top thought leaders.

PC workplace boosts creativity in male-female teams

New research by the ILR School finds that a politically correct work environment leads to greater creativity among in male-female teams.

Nobel laureate promotes economic model to avoid crisis

Robert F. Engle, M.S. ’66, Ph.D. ‘69, who won the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, spoke on campus Oct. 24 about economics models that can stave off another financial crisis.

Provost names Robert Smith interim ILR dean

Provost Kent Fuchs has named Robert Smith, ILR associate dean, professor of economics and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, interim dean of the ILR School, effective Nov. 14.