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Mark S. Anner

  • Dean and Distinguished Professor, School of Management and Labor Relations, Office of the Dean
mark.anner@rutgers.edu
848-445-4622
Janice H. Levin Building, 94 Rockafeller Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8054
Education

Ph.D., Cornell University

M.A., Stanford University


Curriculum Vitae - CV (PDF)

Expertise

  • Global Supply Chains

  • Workers' Rights

  • Garment Sector

  • Latin America

  • Worker-Driven Co-Research

Mark Anner is Dean and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR). He holds a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Stanford University. Dr. Anner's research focuses on workers' rights in global supply chains. He has been published in leading journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, The British Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Journal of Business Ethics, and Review of International Political Economy.

He is the recipient of the Susan C. Eaton Outstanding Scholar-Practitioner Award, the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award, the Luis Aparicio Emerging Scholar Prize, and the George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Dr. Anner has conducted extensive field research in Latin America, India, Bangladesh, and Vietnam. Before entering academia, he spent twelve years living in Central America and Brazil advocating for workers' rights.

Recent Publications

  • Anner, Mark. (2024). "Worker-Driven Co-Research in Global Supply Chains: Three Studies from Latin America." New Labor Forum 33 (1): 32-42.

  • Anner, Mark,  Matthew Fischer-Daly, and Cirila Quintero Ramírez. (2024) “Between Labour Control and Worker Empowerment: Authoritarian Innovations and Democratic Reforms in Mexico.” Journal of Industrial Relations.

  • Anner, Mark. (2023). "The contested terrain of global production: collective versus private labor governance on Guatemalan banana plantations." Review of International Political Economy.

  • Anner, Mark, Matthew Fischer-Daly, Sifat Amita, Katherine Maich, Samuel Okyere, and Ye Yint. (2023). "Worker Voice: What it is, what it is not, and why it matters." Center for Global Workers’ Rights, Penn State University.

  • Anner, Mark. (2022). "Power relations in global supply chains and the unequal distribution of costs during crises: Abandoning garment suppliers and workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic." International Labour Review 161 (1): 59-82.

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