Bo-Yi Lee

Bo-Yi Lee

@bylee.bsky.social

Assistant Professor @ National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan🇹🇼. Industrial/employment relations, dignity, justice, and platform work. He/him 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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9 months ago
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Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab.

In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before.
www.epi.org/blog/america...

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9 months ago
The Labor Lab at the Center for Political Economy, Columbia University and Cornell ILR School invite submissions for the Political Economy of Work Junior Scholar Workshop to be held in New York, New York, at Columbia University on December 5-6, 2025. 

Participants will receive feedback on their scholarship from a senior scholar in the field, comments from fellow junior scholars, and advice about career development. Confirmed commentators include: Kate Andrias (law); Brishen Rogers (law); Hiba Hafiz (law); Alex Hertel-Fernandez (political science); Suresh Naidu (economics); and Adam Reich (sociology), with more to be added.  

Who Can Apply?

Scholars who write in the field of work and labor, broadly defined, in law, social science (economics, political science, sociology) or history are welcome to apply. Preference will be given to scholars without tenure, including post docs or fellows, but recently tenured scholars are welcome to apply as well. Submissions are also welcome from graduate students or law students interested in academia, as are papers from practitioners, clinicians, and writing faculty. 

Proposal Requirements

Interested participants should submit a one page abstract with contact information (name, institution, discipline, position, email and phone) via this form by September 15.

Please note: Presented papers must be advanced drafts of scholarly work ready for circulation by November 14, 2025. 

Key Deadlines 

September 15, 2025 at 5 pm EDT: Deadline for proposal submissions 
October 1, 2025: Decisions announced (approximately 15 papers will be selected)
November 14, 2025: Deadline for submission of full paper drafts (if selected)
 

Travel

Up to two nights of lodging provided for out-of-town participants. Additional funds are available to support travel for those who need financial assistance. Please note in your proposal if you will be requesting a stipend for travel.

Organizing Committee: Kate Andrias (Columbia Law); Alex Hertel-Fernandez (C…

"Call for Papers: Columbia-Cornell Political Economy of Work Junior Scholars Workshop"
politicaleconomy.columbia.edu/news/call-pa...

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10 months ago
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📣 Call for Papers – Special Issue of the Journal of Industrial Relations

Workplace Geopolitics: Industrial Relations and International Relations

journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

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9 months ago
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US: Major Companies Violate Gig Workers’ Rights Major digital labor platforms, also known as gig companies, operating in the United States misclassify gig workers as independent contractors, denying them labor rights.

New @hrw.org report based of interviews & survey of US-based platform gig workers:

“Low wages, algorithmic control and barriers to unionizing trap many workers in economic insecurity, even as multi-billion-dollar companies expand their market share and revenue”
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

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9 months ago

I’ve deactivated X (finally made up my mind!) and plan to be more active here instead. Looking forward to keeping up with conversations on work, employment, industrial relations, platform work, and justice!

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2 years ago
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AI Adoption in America: Who, What, and Where Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

#Econsky: @nber.bsky.social WP just dropped! Survey sent to 850,000 firms on advanced tech use, nearly 1/2 million responses, representative of 4 million firms nation-wide. Early baseline (2017). X-rayed 75,000 startups. Many cool insights into actual AI use, key correlates, geo concentration.

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2 years ago

When searching for academic positions in the UK, we often use jobs.ac.uk (or any other recommended websites?) What about academic positions in countries where English is the primary language of instruction and administration?

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2 years ago

Thanks! Seems that we’re both interested in DEI and LGBTQ+ issues! 😊

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2 years ago

A lot of work went into this. King’s guidance for staff and students on generative AI use www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

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Coming soon

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2 years ago

Hi I am Assistant Professor in Management in Taiwan, studying employment relations particularly from perspectives of gender, class and disability. Would love to connect with researchers around the world here!

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