Industrial and Labor Relations
Field Description
Cornell offers four graduate-degree programs in the field of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR): The M.P.S. (Master of Professional Studies); M.S., and Ph.D.; and the M.I.L.R. (Master of Industrial and Labor Relations).
The M.I.L.R.
Choose one of the following areas of concentration: human resources and organizations; collective representation; dispute resolution; labor-market policy; or international and comparative labor.
Students complete a minimum of 48 credits in courses and seminars, including required courses in collective bargaining, organizational behavior, labor economics, labor and employment law, human resource management, and statistics. Candidates with a law or M.B.A. degree from a U.S. institution may be able to obtain M.I.L.R. degree in two semesters. Students interested in careers in business administration may apply for a five-semester, dual-degree program at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (M.I.L.R.) and the Johnson Graduate School of Management (M.B.A.).
The M.P.S.
This degree is limited to individuals with professionally related work experience who wish to update their knowledge of current practices. Applicants for this degree are typically sponsored by their governments or organizations. Degree requirements include course work, an MPS project paper and a two-year commitment. Students may choose to study part-time in New York City in the M.P.S. (I.L.R.) New York program, or full time in residence on the Ithaca campus.
M.S. and Ph.D.
Candidates select major and minor subjects from the following areas: collective bargaining, labor law, and labor history; organizational behavior; human resource studies; international and comparative labor. One minor is selected from outside the ILR Field of Study.
Minors
Labor Economics and Economic & Social Statistics are offered as minors only. Minor subjects in fields outside ILR are encouraged. Each candidates program is supervised by a committee of faculty members chosen by the candidate. The average M.S. program requires two years; the doctoral program typically takes an additional three years.
Contact Information
Website: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/graddegreeprograms/Email: ilrgradapplicant@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 255-1522
218 Ives Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Data and Statistics
- Doctoral Program Statistics
- Research Master's Program Statistics
- Professional Master's Program Statistics
Subject and Degrees
Human Resources (Online)
Industrial and Labor Relations
- Industrial and Labor Relations (M.I.L.R.) (Ithaca)
- Industrial and Labor Relations (M.I.L.R./M.B.A. (dual degree)) (Ithaca)
- Industrial and Labor Relations (M.P.S.) (Cornell ILR NYC)
- Industrial and Labor Relations (M.S.) (Ithaca)
- Industrial and Labor Relations (M.S./Ph.D.) (Ithaca)
- Industrial and Labor Relations (Ph.D.) (Ithaca)
Concentrations by Subject
Human Resources (Online)
- human resource management
- labor relations, economics, and organizational behavior
Industrial and Labor Relations
- collective representation (M.I.L.R. only)
- dispute resolution (M.I.L.R. only)
- human resource studies (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- human resources and organizations (M.I.L.R. only)
- international and comparative labor
- labor economics (minor)
- labor market policy (M.I.L.R. only)
- labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- organizational behavior (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- social statistics (minor)
Faculty
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: international and comparative labor; labor economics
- Research Interests: labor economics; international and comparative labor
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: labor relations, law and history
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: human resource studies (M.S./Ph.D. only); international and comparative labor
- Research Interests: human resource studies; international and comparative labor
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: human resource studies (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: human resource studies
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor economics
- Research Interests: Behavioral Economics, Labor Economics, Health Economics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: international and comparative labor; labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: Research uses ethnographic and historical methods to study the intersection of nature, labor and capitalism in South Asia
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: international and comparative labor
- Research Interests: Authoritarianism, social and protest movements, state-labor relations, and the mobilization of the unemployed
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: international and comparative labor; labor economics
- Research Interests: labor economics; international and comparative labor
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: organizational behavior (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: social influence; egocentrism; moral emotions; prosocial and antisocial behavior; interpersonal relations
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: organizational behavior (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: Organizations, Labor Markets, Status, Evaluations, and Careers
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: international and comparative labor; labor economics
- Research Interests: labor economics; international and comparative labor
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: human resource studies (M.S./Ph.D. only); organizational behavior (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: human resources
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: human resource studies (M.S./Ph.D. only); organizational behavior (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: organizational behavior; human resources studies
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: collective representation (M.I.L.R. only); dispute resolution (M.I.L.R. only); international and comparative labor; labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: collective bargaining; labor history; labor law
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: human resource studies (M.S./Ph.D. only); human resources and organizations (M.I.L.R. only)
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: international and comparative labor; labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: collective bargaining; labor law; labor history; international and comparative labor
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor economics
- Research Interests: economics and social statistics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: international and comparative labor
- Research Interests: international and comparative labor
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor economics
- Research Interests: labor economics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: organizational behavior (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: Social perception and inequality in organizations and society
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: international and comparative labor; labor economics
- Research Interests: international and comparative labor; labor economics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: international and comparative labor
- Research Interests: international and comparative labor
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: low-wage workers, the role of immigrant documentation status, and legal mobilization; immigrant civic engagement and the bureaucratic processes of labor standards enforcement.
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: dispute resolution (M.I.L.R. only); labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: collective bargaining; labor law; labor history; dispute resolution
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests:
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: dispute resolution (M.I.L.R. only); international and comparative labor; labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: collective bargaining; labor law; labor history; dispute resolution; international and comparative labor
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: human resource studies (M.S./Ph.D. only); human resources and organizations (M.I.L.R. only); labor economics
- Research Interests: compensation, employee benefits; discrimination; education (organization and systems); executive compensation; human resources; incentives and performance; labor economics; wage differentials and inequality; wage systems
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: organizational behavior (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: organizational behavior
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: human resource studies (M.S./Ph.D. only); human resources and organizations (M.I.L.R. only)
- Research Interests: human resources; motivation; organizations; staffing and selection; employee retention
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor economics
- Research Interests: labor economics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: labor relations, law, and history
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: international and comparative labor
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor economics
- Research Interests: labor economics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: international and comparative labor; labor economics; labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: labor economics; collective bargaining; labor law; labor history; international and comparative labor
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: dispute resolution (M.I.L.R. only); international and comparative labor; labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: collective bargaining; labor law; labor history; international and comparative labor; dispute resolution
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: human resource studies (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: Star performers, alignment of HR systems and business strategy, and process-based perspectives of HR system design and implementation.
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: human resource studies (M.S./Ph.D. only); human resources and organizations (M.I.L.R. only)
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor economics
- Research Interests: Consequences of search frictions in labor markets, in particular regarding wage setting and assignment of workers to jobs.
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: dispute resolution (M.I.L.R. only); international and comparative labor; labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: collective bargaining; labor law; labor history; international and comparative labor, dispute resolution
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: international and comparative labor; labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: Relationship between international labor rights and broader international governance
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: organizational behavior (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: Social influence, negotiations and conflict management, power and status, cross-cultural dynamics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: collective bargaining; labor law; labor history
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: employee relations; health care industry; high performance work systems; industrial relations systems; labor and society; labor relations; unions; technology and work
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: organizational behavior (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: affirmative action;comparative labor movements;community problem solving;discrimination;diversity and inclusion;gender and families;immigration and the labor force;labor history;labor rights;organizing;rights of working people;wage differentials
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: organizational behavior (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: Diversity, equity and inclusion in organizations
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: How labor and working-class history intersects with African American and foreign relations history
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: human resource studies (M.S./Ph.D. only); international and comparative labor
- Research Interests: human resource studies; international and comparative labor
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: human resource studies (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: Employment relationship;Compensation and rewards;Turnover and retention
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Human Resources (Online): human resource management; Industrial and Labor Relations: human resource studies (M.S./Ph.D. only); human resources and organizations (M.I.L.R. only)
- Research Interests: stereotyping and inequality, creativity evaluation, motivational underpinnings of organizational attitudes and behaviors
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor economics
- Research Interests: Economic development; Economics of higher education; labor economics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: organizational behavior (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor economics
- Research Interests: Labor economics and econometrics with a specialization in population research
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: organizational behavior (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: organizational behavior
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor economics
- Research Interests: labor economics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor economics
- Research Interests: labor economics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: organizational behavior (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: organizational behavior
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: social statistics
- Research Interests: economic and social statistics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: Tax law, employment law, and policy
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: labor relations, law, and history (M.S./Ph.D. only)
- Research Interests: How organizational human resource management policies operate within different institutional contexts and in the face of globalization, migration, and demographic shifts
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Industrial and Labor Relations: human resources and organizations (M.I.L.R. only); organizational behavior (M.S./Ph.D. only)