The Pennsylvania State University
Assistant Research Professor, School of Labor and Employment Relations 2023-2024
Adjunct Instructor, School of Labor and Employment Relations 2024-2025
Cornell University
Instructor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations 2021
Cornell University
Doctor of Philosophy, Industrial and Labor Relations 2021
Master of Arts, Industrial and Labor Relations 2019
American University
Master of Arts, International Economic Relations 2006
University of Michigan
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science and Spanish 2002
EDUCATION
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
PUBLICATIONS (*denotes equal authorship)
Books
Fischer-Daly, Matthew. 2023. International Trade, Labor Relations, and Bargaining Power: International Strawberry Commodity Networks. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
*Fischer-Daly, Matthew and Christian Zlolniski. Forthcoming. “Export agribusiness, multi-modal dispossession, and livelihood reconstitution in northern Mexico.” Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos.
*Anner, Mark, Matthew Fischer-Daly, and Cirila Quintero Ramírez. 2024. “Between Labor Control and Worker Empowerment: Authoritarian Innovations and Democratic Reforms in Mexico.” Journal of Industrial Relations 66(4):578-603.
Fischer-Daly, Matthew. 2022. “Dignity and bargaining power: Insights from struggles in strawberries,” Industrial Relations Journal, 53(3): 241-260.
Fischer-Daly, Matthew. 2022. “Structuring Workers’ Bargaining Power in Mexico’s Strawberry Fields.” Global Labour Journal, 13(1): https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v13i1.4456.
Fischer-Daly, Matthew. 2021. “Human Dignity and Power: Worker Struggles Against Precarity in US Agribusiness.” Labor Studies Journal, 46(4): 369– 393.
*Anner, Mark, Matthew Fischer-Daly and Michael Maffie. 2021. “Fissured Employment and Network Bargaining: Emerging Employment Relations Dynamics in a Contingent World of Work.” ILR Review, 74(3): 689-714.
Fischer-Daly, Matthew. 2019 “Impunity of International Labor Rights Violators and Beneficiaries: The Case of Uzbekistan.” World Development Perspectives.
Book Chapters
*Kuruvilla, Sarosh, Matthew Fischer-Daly and Christopher Raymond. 2021. “Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining in Global Supply Chains.” In Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains. Sarosh Kuruvilla. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
*Kuruvilla, Sarosh and Matthew Fischer-Daly. 2021. “Are Changes in Corporate Governance the Answer?” In Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains. Sarosh Kuruvilla. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
*Katz, Harry C., Matthew Fischer-Daly, Thomas A. Kochan and Alexander J.S. Colvin. forthcoming in 2020. “Covid-19 Pandemic Labor Issues.” In An Introduction to U.S. Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations. Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan and Alexander J.S. Colvin. Ithaca: ILR an imprint of Cornell University Press.
*Ewart James, Joanna and Matthew Fischer-Daly. 2019. “Contemporary Social Movements to End Slavery – NGOs.” In The SAGE Handbook of Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery. Jennifer Bryson Clark and Sasha Poucki (Editors). London: SAGE Publications.
*Fischer-Daly, Matthew and Ana Paula de la O Campos. 2005. “Peasant and Indigenous Communities in the Amazon.” In Sister Dorothy Stang: Struggling for Sustainable Development in the Brazilian Amazon, Brigitte Bürgler, Jocelyn Farrington, Emily Hillenbrand, and Jacob Laden (editors). Washington, DC: School of International Service, American University.
Book Reviews
Fischer-Daly, Matthew. 2018. “Informal Workers and Collective Action: A Global Perspective,” by Adrienne E. Eaton, Susan J. Schurman, & Martha A. Chen. Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal.
Fischer-Daly, Matthew. 2017. “Achieving Workers’ Rights in the Global Economy,” by Richard P. Applebaum and Nelson Lichtenstein (editors). ILR Review.
Reports
Fischer-Daly, Matthew. Forthcoming. “Organizing for Life: Workers’ Rights in the Palm Oil Sector of Honduras.” Solidarity Center and the Center for Global Workers’ Rights, Pennsylvania State University.
*Anner, Mark and Matthew Fischer-Daly, with case study contributions from Sifat Amita, Katherine Maich, Samuel Okyere, and Ye Yint. (2024). “Worker Voice: What it is, what it is not, and why it matters.” Center for Global Workers’ Rights, Pennsylvania State University for the Bureau of International Labor Affairs, United States Department of Labor.
*Fischer-Daly, Matthew and Mark Anner. (2023). “Worker Voice: A Literature Review.” Center for Global Workers’ Rights, Pennsylvania State University for the Bureau of International Labor Affairs, United States Department of Labor.
*Fischer-Daly, Matthew M., Jason Judd, and Sarosh Kuruvilla. 2022. “Learning from Crisis: Apparel Industry Experts on Mitigating the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Crises.” Geneva: International Labour Office and Ithaca: Cornell University ILR School Global Labor Institute.
*Fischer-Daly, Matthew and Mark Anner. 2021. “Fighting for Work with Dignity in the Fields: Agriculture Global Supply Chains in Morocco, Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico.” Solidarity Center and the Center for Global Workers’ Rights, Pennsylvania State University.
Fischer-Daly, Matthew. 2021. “Strawberry Global Supply Chains in Mexico.” Solidarity Center and the Center for Global Workers’ Rights, Pennsylvania State University.
*Fischer-Daly, Matthew and Glenn Perusek. 2018. “The Power of Workers in Global Agriculture Supply Chains: Collective Bargaining between Confederación Democratique du Travail and Les Domaines Brahim Zniber-Diana Holding Group, Morocco.” Solidarity Center and the Center for Global Workers’ Rights, Pennsylvania State University.
*Campbell, Brian and Matthew Fischer-Daly. 2014. “The System of Forced Labor Cotton Production in Uzbekistan.” International Labor Rights Forum.
*Muradov, Bakhodyr, Alisher Ilkhamov, Matthew Fischer-Daly and Jeff Goldstein. 2014. “Uzbekistan’s Cotton Sector: Financial Flows and Distribution of Resources.” Open Society Foundations.
*Fischer-Daly, Matthew and Umida Niyazova. 2012. “A Systemic Problem: State-Sponsored Forced Labour in Uzbekistan’s Cotton Sector Continues in 2012.” The Cotton Campaign and Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights.
Fischer-Daly, Matthew. 2011. “Final Technical Progress Report: Project Cultivar – Advancing Labor Rights in Agriculture in the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Nicaragua.” Social Accountability International.
ACADEMIC TEACHING EXPERIENCE
LGWR 894: Capstone Research Project Summer 2024
The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
LGWR 560: Gender, Race, and Labor in Comparative Perspective Spring 2024
The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
LHR 400: Comparative Employment Relations Spring 2024 The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
HRER 500: International and Comparative Employment Relations Fall 2023
The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
LHR 475H: Labor in the Global Economy Spring 2023
The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
ILRLR 2050: Labor Relations Fall 2021
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
PRESENTATIONS
Conferences
“International Commodity Networks.”
Labor and Employment Relations Association 75th Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI June 2023
“Dignity & Bargaining Power: Insights from Struggles in Strawberries.”
Labor and Employment Relations Association 74th Annual Meeting, online June 2022
“Labor Control and Resistance in Strawberry International Commodity Networks June 2021
19th International Labor and Employment Relations Association World Conference, online
“Commodity Chains as Labor Control Systems: The case of strawberry production in the San Quintin Valley of Mexico.”
Labor and Employment Relations Association 72nd Annual Meeting, online June 2020
International Labor and Employment Relations Association
Regional Congress of the Americas, online June 2020
“Fissured Employment Relations and Networked Solidarity: Emerging Patterns of Bargaining in an Increasingly Contingent World of Work.” June 2019
Labor and Employment Relations Association 71st Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH
“Current Collective Bargaining in Agriculture Supply Chains.”
Labor and Employment Relations Association 70th Annual Meeting June 2018
Invited talks
"El Panorama del Empleo en El Salvador, Guatemala, y Honduras" ("The Employment Landscape in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras")
Foro de Buenas Prácticas Laborales (Good Jobs Summit), Guatemala City, Guatemala October 2024
“Worker Voice: What it is, What it is not, and Why it Matters”
American Apparel and Footwear Association annual meeting, Dearborn, MI July 2024
“Worker Voice: Case Study Demonstrations of Supportive and Impeding Mechanisms”
United States Interagency meeting, online March 2024
“Learning from Crisis: Apparel Industry Experts on Mitigating the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Crises.” February 2023
International Labour Organization and Global Labor Institute at Cornell, online
“Working Conditions in the Hotel Sector in Baja California Sur, Mexico” September 2022
Solidarity Center, UNITE HERE Local 11, UCLA Labor Center meeting, online
“Fighting for Work with Dignity in the Fields: Agriculture Global Supply Chains in Morocco, Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico.”
Solidarity Center meeting, online November 2021
“Workers’ Rights & Health & Safety in Banana, Sugar & Cotton Agribusiness.”
Spring Symposium, Center for Global Workers’ Rights, School of Labor and Employment Relations, Pennsylvania State University March 2017
“Uzbekistan: Migration, Politics and Human Rights.”
Industrial and Labor Relations School, Cornell University. October 2016
“International Labor Rights Institutions and Ending Forced Labor in the Cotton Industry.”
Industrial and Labor Relations School, Cornell University. November 2015
“Implementing Living Wages in Global Supply Chains.”
International Society of Sustainability Professionals January 2012
“Organizing for Gender Equity at Work and Society.”
11th Women’s Colloquium of the Movement of Working and Unemployed Women María Elena Cuadra, Managua, Nicaragua. March 2009
AWARDS & GRANTS
Seidman Prize for labor relations research, ILR School, Cornell University 2021
International Travel Research Grant, Einaudi Center, Cornell University 2020
Michele Sicca Research Grant, Einaudi Center European Programs, Cornell University 2020
Benjamin Miller Scholarship, ILR School, Cornell University 2019
ILR Theme Grant on Inequality and Work, ILR School, Cornell University 2019
ILR Travel Grant, ILR International Programs, Cornell University 2019
EMPLOYMENT
The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA
Assistant Research Professor, Labor and Employment Relations January 2023 – June 2024
Research Consultant, Center for Global Workers’ Rights September 2017 – December 2022
Solidarity Center AFL-CIO, Mexico Office, Mexico City, Mexico
Research Consultant June 2022-September 2022
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Research Consultant, Global Labor Institute May 2022 – August 2022
Instructor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations Fall 2021
Teaching Assistant
“Migration: Histories, Controversies, & Perspectives” (Spanish section) Fall 2021
“Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations” Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
“Comparative Labor Movements in Latin America” (Spanish section) Fall 2017
Research Assistant
Sarosh Kuruvilla, Professor of Industrial Relations, Asian Studies and Public Affairs, Summer 2017, Summer 2018
Harry C. Katz, Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining at the School of Industrial
& Labor Relations, Spring 2021, Summer 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019
Mary Jo Dudley, Director, Cornell Farmworker Program March – December 2018
International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Research Consultant June-December 2021
Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium, USA
Program Coordinator March – December 2019
International Labor Rights Forum, Washington, DC, USA
Coordinator of the Cotton Campaign to End Forced Labor in the Cotton Sector,
April 2012 – August 2016
Social Accountability International, New York, NY, USA and Managua, Nicaragua
Senior Manager, January 2010 – March 2012
Project Assistant Director, Project Cultivar January 2008 – December 2009
Executive Assistant September 2006 – December 2007
The Development Group for Alternative Policies, Washington, DC
Research Intern September 2005 - August 2006
Kenan Institute of Public Enterprise, Washington, DC
Research Intern June 2005 - August 2005
Proyecto Bibliotecas Guatemala (PROBIGUA) and Child Aid, Antigua, Guatemala
Liaison January 2004 – June 2004
Casa Americana, Valencia, Spain
Teacher October 2002 – September 2003
LANGUAGES
English, native
Spanish, fluent
REFERENCES
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE & AFFILIATIONS
Academic journal reviewer: Agriculture and Human Values; Frontera Norte; ILR Review; Labor Studies Journal; Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos since 2020
Global Labor University, Editorial Board since 2023
Labor and Employment Relations Association, Member since 2017
Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium, Board Member since 2023
BioScience Resource Project, Board Member since 2017
Available upon request