Worker Militancy

Adam Seth Litwin is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell’s ILR School and an associate editor at its flagship journal, the ILR Review. Dr. Litwin’s research, anchored in industrial relations, examines the determinants and impact of labor relations structures and technological change. His essay “Hollywood’s Deal With Screenwriters Just Rewrote the Rules Around A.I.” was published Sept. 29 in the New York Times.

Dr. Litwin has published a mix of empirical and conceptual studies intersecting the areas of labor relations and technological change in both industrial relations and medical journals, including the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, Human Resource Management, Applied Clinical Informatics, and the International Review of Psychiatry.

Dr. Litwin’s pedagogy has been recognized with an “Ideas Worth Teaching” Award from the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program and the ILR School’s Duncan M. MacIntyre Award for Exemplary Teaching. At Cornell, he teaches undergraduate and graduate core courses in labor relations and electives focused on the evolution and impact of technological change on workers, organizations, and society at large. During his 2022-2023 sabbatical, Dr. Litwin served as the J. William Fulbright Visiting Professor of Work and Organizational Studies at the University of Sydney in Australia.

Dr. Litwin joined Cornell’s ILR faculty in the fall of 2014 after serving as a standing faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, where he held appointments in the Carey Business School and the School of Medicine. Before earning his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Litwin researched industrial relations institutions in Great Britain as a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Fellow at the London School of Economics. He also put in time “inside the beltway” as a research assistant at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington.

Ellen Stutzman was the chief negotiator for the Writers Guild of America in its 2023 contract talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers for an industry-wide agreement covering television and film writers. As an assistant executive director for the Writers Guild of America West, Ms. Stutzman oversees the Guild’s Legal Services, Agency, Contracts, and Research & Public Policy programs and is a trustee of the Guild’s Health and Pension Plans.

Ms. Stutzman has been involved in six negotiations for the WGA’s minimum basic agreement. With 17 years of experience at the Guild, her work has also included strategic research for collective bargaining, organizing, and contract enforcement, as well as the development of a public policy agenda that advances the interest of writers, including support of an open internet, limits on media consolidation, and pension and health protections. Ms. Stutzman earned a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell’s ILR School and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Harry C. Katz is the Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining at Cornell University’s ILR School and the director of ILR’s Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution. He received his doctorate in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. After teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor Katz came to ILR in 1985. His areas of expertise include labor-management cooperation, labor relations, and contract negotiations.