Electrifying the Auto Industry by 2030

Arthur Wheaton is Director of Labor Studies and works in the Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab. He also works for the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution. Professor Wheaton’s expertise includes workplace training, negotiations, costing out a contract, and conflict resolution, as well as auto and aerospace industrial relations.

Prior to joining the ILR faculty in 1999, Professor Wheaton was with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was project manager for the Labor Aerospace Research Agenda.

Author of numerous publications, Professor Wheaton earned a B.A. in Multidisciplinary Social Science with a concentration in Political Science, History, and Economics at Michigan State University. He has an MLIR from the Michigan State School of Labor and Industrial Relations.

Ian Greer is a Research Professor at Cornell University’s ILR School and Director of the ILR Ithaca Co-Lab. His research examines the intersection of industrial relations and welfare states in Europe and North America. Professor Greer is the author of several journal articles about offshoring, outsourcing, and insourcing in the auto industry, as well as privatization, active labor market policies, and immigration. His latest book is “Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). Before working at Cornell, Professor Greer worked in England at Leeds University and the University of Greenwich.

Virginia Doellgast is the Anne Evans Estabrook Professor of Employment Relations and Dispute Resolution in the ILR School at Cornell University and a Senior Research Fellow at the WSI-Hans Böckler Stiftung. Her research focuses on the comparative political economy of labor markets and labor unions, inequality, precarity, and democracy at work. Professor Doellgast is currently studying the impact of digitalization and AI on job quality in the ICT services industry and “just transitions” to e-mobility in the auto industry based on comparative research in the U.S., Canada, Germany, and Norway. She is author of “Exit, Voice, and Solidarity” (Oxford University Press, 2022) and “Disintegrating Democracy at Work” (Cornell University Press, 2012).