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Maria Figueroa

Director, Labor and Policy Research at ILR School

Assistant professor, at CBS Executive

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  • ILR School
  • CBS Executive

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ILR School

Overview

Maria C. Figueroa is Director of Labor and Policy Research at the Worker Institute, Cornell University-School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Maria''s work has involved applied research and technical assistance in the area of low wage and contingent (or precarious) work. She has worked in several projects commissioned by unions, employer groups, government agencies, and private foundations. Maria has more than 25 years of experience in labor and industry research, having worked as a senior analyst and researcher for national and international organizations, including the Teamsters union and the United Nations.

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Maria C. Figueroa, Jeffrey Grabelsky, Ryan Lamare. 2013. Community Workforce Agreements: A Tool to Grow the Union Market and to Expand Access to Lifetime Careers in the Unionized Building Trades, Labor Studies Journal . 38(1).
  • Maria C. Figueroa, Damone Richardson. 2004. Consolidation and Labor in Arts and Entertainment: a Peek at Clear Channel, WorkingUSA . 8(1):83-97.

Book Chapters

  • Maria C. Figueroa. 2017. Building a Green New York: Construction Unions and Community Alliances. in Unions and the City . Ithaca: Cornell ILR Press, 2017. Ian MacDonald.
  • Maria C. Figueroa, Lois Gray. 2017. Film Production Unions Enter New York Politics. in Unions and the City . Ithaca: Cornell ILR Press, 2017. Ian MacDonald.
  • Maria C. Figueroa, Peter Michael Lazes, Arun Karpur, Liana Katz. 2012. Using Adaptive and Disruptive Change Strategies to Create an Integrated Delivery System: Montefiore Medical Center''s Experience. in Organizing for Sustainable Health Care. United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing, 2012. Susan A. Mohrman, Abraham B. Shani. (21)
  • Maria C. Figueroa, Peter Michael Lazes, Arun Karpur, Liana Katz. 2012. Using Adaptive and Disruptive Change Strategies to Create an Integrated Delivery System: Montefiore Medical Center''s Experience. in Organizing for Sustainable Health Care. United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing, 2012. Susan A. Mohrman, Abraham B. Shani. (21)

Professional Activities

  • The Green Jobs/Green New York Policy: Lessons Learned. Presented to LERA. Portland, Oregon. 2014.
  • New York Working Women: Socio-Economic Indicators. Presented to AFL-CIO Workforce Development Institute and Cornell ILR-Labor Program. New York City. 2012.
  • Labor issues Affecting Latinos in NYS. Presented to League of United Latin American Citizens. Albany. 2009.
  • The Effects of Technological and Organizational Changes on Employment and Labor Management Relations in the Electronic Media Industry.. Presented to Sloan Foundation. Boston, MA. 2008.

Honors and Awards

  • Leadership Award, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, NYC Chapter.
  • Community Service Award, Teamsters Hispanic Caucus-NY Chapter. 2015

### Areas of Expertise

Art, media, entertainment

Construction

Immigration and the Labor Force

Industry Studies

Organizing

Unions

CBS Executive

Presentation

Maria Figueroa is Assistant Professor in Governance of Innovation for Climate and Sustainability. She is currently Post-Doc Fellow working on the Sustainability of Public Private Partnerships at the Department. She conducts research on comparative assessments of effectiveness of alternative policy instruments and organizational forms influencing innovation for climate and sustainability. She is interested in forms of government intervention that can favour social entrepreneurship in energy innovation particularly in the transport sector;  and also in the development of comparative analytical frameworks to strengthen knowledge building processes necessary to meet the challenges of a democratic transition to low carbon sustainable society.

She is involved in a number of large international studies dealing with global energy and climate challenges. She has been a Lead author to the Transport Chapter of the Fifth Assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and worked as Convenient Lead Author in the Global Energy Assessment published by Cambridge 2012. She co-edited the book “A New Sustainability Agenda” published by Ashgate in 2010.

Primary research areas

  • Governance, Organizing models & policy conditions for Sustainability and deep Climate
  • Climate and Sustainability Knowledge Dissemination regimes at the institutional and firm level
  • Societal acceptance of Energy Transport Technology Innovation and Mobility Services
  • Socio-Technical change for Sustainable Energy in developing countries
  • Sustainability in Public Private Partnerships

Courses

Supervision

I currently supervise 2 PhD students

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