Past Events

In late February 2018, the "Bargaining for the Common Good in Higher Education Convening” brought together over 200 labor, community and racial justice leaders representing 50 campuses across the country to strategize about common good bargaining and organizing.

RCCS "Speaking of China" Lecture Series

Co-Sponsored by Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies

Held at the Convene Meeting Center in New York, NY on February 8, 2018, attendees heard from industry experts ​​​on topics ranging from ESPP Fundamentals to design considerations, expensing ESPPs, employee communications and more. SMLR's Joseph Blasi was the keynote speaker.

Faculty Lunchtime Program on The Transnational Challenge of Union Organizing.

During the Sociotechnical Systems Roundtable Inc. (STS) 2017 Annual Roundtable, "Designing Collaborative Ecosystems," attendees explored the practice of building collaborative ecosystems in the healthcare sector as well as in other fields to broaden the understanding of collaborative ecosystems' general principles and methods. 

SMLR's Center for Global Work and Employment held a workshop on August 30, 2017 at the Goethe-Institut in San Francisco to probe the changing politics of Germany’s social market economy.

Conference at Renmin University in Beijing on Crowdwork.

SMLR Professor Mingwei Liu, co-director of the Center for Global Work and Employment, and Can Ouyang, Ph.D. student at Cornell University, won the Best Paper Award in Emerging Economies Research of the Academy of International Business (AIB).