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Strategic Corporate Research

Faculty

Kate Bronfenbrenner

Kate Bronfenbrenner is the Director of Labor Education Research at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University in 1993. Bronfenbrenner's primary research and teaching interests focus on union and employer behavior in organizing, bargaining, and contract administration, strategic corporate research and comprehensive cross-border campaigns, and the impact of global trade and investment policy on workers, wages, and unions.

Robert Masciola

Robert Masciola is the deputy director for the Center for Strategic Research at the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C. From 1994 to 2004 he worked for the Service Employees International Union, providing strategic research on a variety of organizing drives focused mainly on janitors and security officers. Masciola received his undergraduate degree from Old Dominion University and a masters degree from Catholic University.

Tom Juravich

Tom Juravich is Professor of Labor Studies at the Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts--Amherst where he teaches courses in labor research, work and the labor process, contemporary labor issues, and advanced corporate research. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Massachusetts--Amherst. Juravich has written extensively on union bargaining and organizing strategies, work and the labor process, worker culture, and the history of work and labor.

David Van Arsdale

David Van Arsdale is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Joseph S. Murphy Institute, City University of New York. Van Arsdale holds a Ph.D. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

He specializes in the sociology of work, globalization, political economy, and research methods, with a particular focus on day laboring and the temporary help industry.