Andrew Wolf
@mrandrewthewolf.bsky.social
Labor sociologists, assistant professor at Cornell ILR. Studies gig worker and immigrant worker organizing. PhD from UW-Madison, fmr post doc Rutgers SMLR, fmr campaigner SEIU 32BJ. Website: https://andrewwolfsociology.com/
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"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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"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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November 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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...
"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...
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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November 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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
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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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October 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
#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.
October 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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...
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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September 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Cornell University Library is hiring two Processing Archivists! Come work with us! jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...
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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.
September 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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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September 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
🚨 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...
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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
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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June 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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
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
Pretty funny that both the unions and the bosses made the same calculus on endorsing Cuomo.
Here's a fun thing that a top donor to Andrew Cuomo's super PAC just told me.
June 26, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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...
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June 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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.
June 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Good book from the summer office.
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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
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.
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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...
Layoffs, further cuts likely at Cornell as federal scrutiny continues - The Ithaca Voice
ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell University has announced impending layoffs and spending cuts for the upcoming academic year, citing federal funding cuts. It is the first time the school has announced […]
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June 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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
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📢 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...
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...
May 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
📢 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...
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...
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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...
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.
theintercept.com
May 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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...
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...
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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.
We believe targeting known union supporters in the name of immigration “enforcement” is an outrage. These workers must be released.
May 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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.
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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May 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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....
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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...
April 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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...
April 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
@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...
Our new @cornellilr.bsky.social Worker Institute study finds that New York City’s street vending enforcement is a massive money loser which disproportionately criminalizes immigrants and that reform efforts have failed to meet their goals. @streetvendorproj.bsky.social hdl.handle.net/1813/116768
Evaluating the Regulation and Reform Implementation of Street Vending Laws in New York City
Street vending has long been an important entry point to the local labor market for New York City’s immigrant communities. Thousands of New Yorkers build their livelihoods around servicing our tourist industries and provide fresh food to our communities. Recently New York City engaged in a series of reform efforts aimed at lifting barriers to accessing vendor permits and attempts to limit the criminalization of street vending in the City. This report evaluates the regulatory environment which street vendors face investigating the implementation of these reform efforts and the disparate impacts and costs of vending enforcement.
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April 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Our new @cornellilr.bsky.social Worker Institute study finds that New York City’s street vending enforcement is a massive money loser which disproportionately criminalizes immigrants and that reform efforts have failed to meet their goals. @streetvendorproj.bsky.social hdl.handle.net/1813/116768
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Happy Pub Date to THE PANDEMIC AND THE WORKING CLASS: How US Labor Navigated COVID-19 edited by Nick Juravich and Steve Striffler!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
#LaborStudies #Nonfiction #NonfictionBooks #AcademicPublishing #UniversityPress
cc: @umassboston.bsky.social
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
#LaborStudies #Nonfiction #NonfictionBooks #AcademicPublishing #UniversityPress
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April 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Happy Pub Date to THE PANDEMIC AND THE WORKING CLASS: How US Labor Navigated COVID-19 edited by Nick Juravich and Steve Striffler!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
#LaborStudies #Nonfiction #NonfictionBooks #AcademicPublishing #UniversityPress
cc: @umassboston.bsky.social
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
#LaborStudies #Nonfiction #NonfictionBooks #AcademicPublishing #UniversityPress
cc: @umassboston.bsky.social
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🔍 #CallForParticipation: #DigiMeet2025 🔍
Doctoral & postdoc researchers - submit your work on platform governance & power!
📅 Nov 6, 2025 (virtual)
📝 Submissions by July 31, 2025
🔗Further Information here: www.cais-research.de/en/event/dig...
@bidt.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Doctoral & postdoc researchers - submit your work on platform governance & power!
📅 Nov 6, 2025 (virtual)
📝 Submissions by July 31, 2025
🔗Further Information here: www.cais-research.de/en/event/dig...
@bidt.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
🔍 #CallForParticipation: #DigiMeet2025 🔍
Doctoral & postdoc researchers - submit your work on platform governance & power!
📅 Nov 6, 2025 (virtual)
📝 Submissions by July 31, 2025
🔗Further Information here: www.cais-research.de/en/event/dig...
@bidt.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Doctoral & postdoc researchers - submit your work on platform governance & power!
📅 Nov 6, 2025 (virtual)
📝 Submissions by July 31, 2025
🔗Further Information here: www.cais-research.de/en/event/dig...
@bidt.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
It’s publication day on this excellent new volume on the pandemic and the working class. I contributed a chapter on gig worker and street vendor organizing during the pandemic in NYC. Get 30% off with the discount code below. nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=http%3A%...
April 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It’s publication day on this excellent new volume on the pandemic and the working class. I contributed a chapter on gig worker and street vendor organizing during the pandemic in NYC. Get 30% off with the discount code below. nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=http%3A%...
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NEW: 2024 union filings are in from a host of unions, here is the data on membership changes so far:
@seiu.org +101,000
@afscme.bsky.social +40,000
@unitehere.org +31,000
UFCW +18,000
@weareliuna.bsky.social +7,000
@uaw.org +5,000
@iuoe.bsky.social +4,000
@smart-union.bsky.social +4,000
@seiu.org +101,000
@afscme.bsky.social +40,000
@unitehere.org +31,000
UFCW +18,000
@weareliuna.bsky.social +7,000
@uaw.org +5,000
@iuoe.bsky.social +4,000
@smart-union.bsky.social +4,000
March 31, 2025 at 9:45 PM
NEW: 2024 union filings are in from a host of unions, here is the data on membership changes so far:
@seiu.org +101,000
@afscme.bsky.social +40,000
@unitehere.org +31,000
UFCW +18,000
@weareliuna.bsky.social +7,000
@uaw.org +5,000
@iuoe.bsky.social +4,000
@smart-union.bsky.social +4,000
@seiu.org +101,000
@afscme.bsky.social +40,000
@unitehere.org +31,000
UFCW +18,000
@weareliuna.bsky.social +7,000
@uaw.org +5,000
@iuoe.bsky.social +4,000
@smart-union.bsky.social +4,000
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Cornell ILR is recruiting a Postdoc in Global Labor and Work - focusing on AI and labor. Deadline May 15, 2025. Please circulate widely! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/program/...
Cornell University, Global Labor and Work
Job #AJO29869, WDR-00051984 Postdoctoral Associate – Global Labor and Work, ILR Future of Work Program, Global Labor and Work, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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March 31, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Cornell ILR is recruiting a Postdoc in Global Labor and Work - focusing on AI and labor. Deadline May 15, 2025. Please circulate widely! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/program/...
The Dept of Global Labor and Work @cornellilr.bsky.social is hiring a Post Doc on the impact of AI at work. Please apply! nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Cornell University, Global Labor and Work
Job #AJO29869, WDR-00051984 Postdoctoral Associate – Global Labor and Work, ILR Future of Work Program, Global Labor and Work, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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March 31, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Dept of Global Labor and Work @cornellilr.bsky.social is hiring a Post Doc on the impact of AI at work. Please apply! nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...