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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​

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