





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).


SMLR and East China University of Science and Technology Launch Master Courses Certificate Program.


Talk by Mingwei Liu.




SMLR’s Center for Global Work and Employment welcomed Christine Gerber and noted German researcher Martin Krzywdzinski from the Berlin Social Science Center to talk about the crowdworking platform economy and what it means for the future of work.


SMLR, Jobs With Justice, and a coalition of labor and community organizations shared workplace best practices with nurses from across the United States.


Jean Whelan, Ph.D., RN, from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing, described and discussed the role played by professional nurse organizations and other groups in developing the structure and conventions of nurses' work in the early twentieth century.