The Year of the Strike (Issue 1, Spring 2019)

Abstract

The founding executive board of the Undergraduate Labor Institute at Cornell University is proud to present the inaugural issue of our research report. This Spring, fourteen undergraduate policy analysts from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations examined and researched strikes in the labor movement. Each of the four research pieces comprising this report analyze the theme through the perspectives of non-traditional labor, intersectionality, comparative labor, and barriers to strikes. In commemoration of the labor movement that was molded by the voices and efforts of worker resistance, we chose to focus this report on The Year of the Strike.