Andrew Wolf

Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. (Published 2017)

I’m doing it after Gali saying how well it went for him. I’m assigning this the first day so they know why. www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/b...

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

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. 🧵
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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!

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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!

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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!!!

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

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...

Meet the Politician the AI Industry Is Trying to Stop

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...

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...

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.

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Aurora borealis over Cornell on my walk home tonight.

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

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

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..."

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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...

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

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

#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.

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.

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

Andrew B. Wolf, assistant professor of global labor and work at the Cornell University ILR School, says: “Unlike traditional jobs where workers are disciplined by managers, app delivery workers are being terminated by algorithms and AI systems with no human oversight. Research shows these algorithmic firings are often triggered by racist customer ratings or algorithmic glitches. The just cause protection bill ensures human review of automated termination and provides an innovative path for workers to access City provided arbitration ensuring a fair hearing.”

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.

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 ....

🚨 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...

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...

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
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#SASE2026

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

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

📢 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)

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“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.

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.

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group of supporters outside an ICE detention center

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.

‘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...

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....

Welp, the federal minimum wage is now officially a poverty wage (as in, a full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage gets paid less than the poverty line for a single person). www.epi.org/blog/the-fed...

@thecity.nyc wrote an excellent future on our new study finding problems in NYC’s street vendor enforcement and reform efforts @cornellilr.bsky.social @streetvendorproj.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/25/v...