Adam Seth Litwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 272025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Seth Litwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam Seth |
| FAMILY NAME | Litwin |
| SIGNATURE | LITWIN A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3130-814X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Technology Makers as De Facto Work Designers in American Healthcare
Artificial intelligence (AI) usually enters organizations as a tool whose work-design implications appear only after implementation. This study shifts the analytic starting point upstream to examine how healthcare AI “makers,” through market-facing narratives, frame AI as suitable for adoption in a regulated, professionally governed field. We ask how technology makers construct and legitimate work-design scripts before organizational implementati…
Varieties of AI Regulations: The United States Perspective
labor and employment law; labor–management relations; labor market regulation; digital technology; labor market institutions; artificial intelligence
What do unions do… for temps? Collective bargaining and the wage penalty
Does collective bargaining lift wages for contingent workers? Well‐worn theory suggests that temps at a covered employer earn less than otherwise similar “perms,” but still fare better than they would in a nonunion workplace. Our analysis of a national sample of matched employee–employer data first disposes of the universality of this conventional wisdom. Then, it allows us to test an alternative, contingent theory of the mitigating impact of col…
A Forum on Emerging Technologies
As part of ILR Review's new special series "Novel Technologies at Work," this article introduces a forum composed of five industry studies that examine the drivers and impact of recent and impending technological change. Each of the studies, condensed from longer reports published over the past two years, relies on interviews with sectoral actors and other primary data to determine the relevant technologies confronting workers and managers and th…
Paying the Price for a Broken Healthcare System: Rethinking Employment, Labor, and Work in a Post-Pandemic World
Even before the word pandemic reentered the lexicon, pressures stemming from institutional and technological change challenged policymakers and provider organizations to rethink core features of the manner in which we deliver healthcare. This essay introduces a special issue devoted to the consequences of change on the healthcare sector's varied stakeholders. It does so in the context of our eventual, post-coronavirus reemergence and a renewed in…
Superbugs versus Outsourced Cleaners: Employment Arrangements and the Spread of Health Care-Associated Infections
On any given day, about one in 25 hospital patients in the United States has a health care-associated infection (HAI) that the patient contracts as a direct result of his or her treatment. Fortunately, the spread of most HAIs can be halted through proper disinfection of surfaces and equipment. Consequently, cleaners-"environmental services" (EVS) in hospital parlance-must take on the important task of defending hospital patients (as well as staff…
Cleaning Up: How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients , by D. Zuberi
Researchers sensitive to the plight of low-wage workers in advanced industrialized economies have long sought to convey the magnitude of the problem by retelling sorrowful tales of worker exploitation.Sadly, even their most sympathetic readers have numbed to these accounts.Author Dan Zuberi has found a clever way to transcend this apathy in his new monograph based on about 100 interviews plus behind-the-scenes observations of the impact of hospit…
Justice or Just between Us? Empirical Evidence of the Trade-off between Procedural and Interactional Justice in Workplace Dispute Resolution
In this article, the authors examine the relationship between an employer's implementation of a typical dispute resolution system (DRS) and organizational justice, perceived compliance with the law, and organizational commitment. They draw on unique data from a single, geographically expansive, U.S. firm with more than 100,000 employees in more than 1,000 locations. Holding all time-constant, location-level variables in place, they find that the …
Technological Change at Work: The Impact of Employee Involvement on the Effectiveness of Health Information Technology
The link between employee involvement (EI) and organizational performance is not clear-cut, and the diffusion of information technology (IT) in the workplace complicates this relationship. The author argues that new technologies offer an important avenue by which EI can improve firm performance. He also contends that those studies that do consider EI in the context of technological change may be focusing exclusively on workplace-level features of…
Technological Change at Work: The Impact of Employee Involvement on the Effectiveness of Health Information Technology
The link between employee involvement (EI) and organizational performance is not clear-cut, and the diffusion of information technology (IT) in the workplace complicates this relationship. The author argues that new technologies offer an important avenue by which EI can improve firm performance. He also contends that those studies that do consider EI in the context of technological change may be focusing exclusively on workplace-level features of…
Justice or Just between Us? Empirical Evidence of the Trade-off between Procedural and Interactional Justice in Workplace Dispute Resolution
In this article, the authors examine the relationship between an employer's implementation of a typical dispute resolution system (DRS) and organizational justice, perceived compliance with the law, and organizational commitment. They draw on unique data from a single, geographically expansive, U.S. firm with more than 100,000 employees in more than 1,000 locations. Holding all time-constant, location-level variables in place, they find that the …
Paying the Price for a Broken Healthcare System: Rethinking Employment, Labor, and Work in a Post-Pandemic World
Even before the word pandemic reentered the lexicon, pressures stemming from institutional and technological change challenged policymakers and provider organizations to rethink core features of the manner in which we deliver healthcare. This essay introduces a special issue devoted to the consequences of change on the healthcare sector's varied stakeholders. It does so in the context of our eventual, post-coronavirus reemergence and a renewed in…
Superbugs versus Outsourced Cleaners: Employment Arrangements and the Spread of Health Care-Associated Infections
On any given day, about one in 25 hospital patients in the United States has a health care-associated infection (HAI) that the patient contracts as a direct result of his or her treatment. Fortunately, the spread of most HAIs can be halted through proper disinfection of surfaces and equipment. Consequently, cleaners-"environmental services" (EVS) in hospital parlance-must take on the important task of defending hospital patients (as well as staff…
Varieties of AI Regulations: The United States Perspective
labor and employment law; labor–management relations; labor market regulation; digital technology; labor market institutions; artificial intelligence
A Forum on Emerging Technologies
As part of ILR Review's new special series "Novel Technologies at Work," this article introduces a forum composed of five industry studies that examine the drivers and impact of recent and impending technological change. Each of the studies, condensed from longer reports published over the past two years, relies on interviews with sectoral actors and other primary data to determine the relevant technologies confronting workers and managers and th…
Cleaning Up: How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients , by D. Zuberi
Researchers sensitive to the plight of low-wage workers in advanced industrialized economies have long sought to convey the magnitude of the problem by retelling sorrowful tales of worker exploitation.Sadly, even their most sympathetic readers have numbed to these accounts.Author Dan Zuberi has found a clever way to transcend this apathy in his new monograph based on about 100 interviews plus behind-the-scenes observations of the impact of hospit…
Technological Change at Work: The Impact of Employee Involvement on the Effectiveness of Health Information Technology
The link between employee involvement (EI) and organizational performance is not clear-cut, and the diffusion of information technology (IT) in the workplace complicates this relationship. The author argues that new technologies offer an important avenue by which EI can improve firm performance. He also contends that those studies that do consider EI in the context of technological change may be focusing exclusively on workplace-level features of…
Cleaning Up: How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients , by D. Zuberi
Researchers sensitive to the plight of low-wage workers in advanced industrialized economies have long sought to convey the magnitude of the problem by retelling sorrowful tales of worker exploitation.Sadly, even their most sympathetic readers have numbed to these accounts.Author Dan Zuberi has found a clever way to transcend this apathy in his new monograph based on about 100 interviews plus behind-the-scenes observations of the impact of hospit…
Justice or Just between Us? Empirical Evidence of the Trade-off between Procedural and Interactional Justice in Workplace Dispute Resolution
In this article, the authors examine the relationship between an employer's implementation of a typical dispute resolution system (DRS) and organizational justice, perceived compliance with the law, and organizational commitment. They draw on unique data from a single, geographically expansive, U.S. firm with more than 100,000 employees in more than 1,000 locations. Holding all time-constant, location-level variables in place, they find that the …
Superbugs versus Outsourced Cleaners: Employment Arrangements and the Spread of Health Care-Associated Infections
On any given day, about one in 25 hospital patients in the United States has a health care-associated infection (HAI) that the patient contracts as a direct result of his or her treatment. Fortunately, the spread of most HAIs can be halted through proper disinfection of surfaces and equipment. Consequently, cleaners-"environmental services" (EVS) in hospital parlance-must take on the important task of defending hospital patients (as well as staff…
Paying the Price for a Broken Healthcare System: Rethinking Employment, Labor, and Work in a Post-Pandemic World
Even before the word pandemic reentered the lexicon, pressures stemming from institutional and technological change challenged policymakers and provider organizations to rethink core features of the manner in which we deliver healthcare. This essay introduces a special issue devoted to the consequences of change on the healthcare sector's varied stakeholders. It does so in the context of our eventual, post-coronavirus reemergence and a renewed in…
What do unions do… for temps? Collective bargaining and the wage penalty
Does collective bargaining lift wages for contingent workers? Well‐worn theory suggests that temps at a covered employer earn less than otherwise similar “perms,” but still fare better than they would in a nonunion workplace. Our analysis of a national sample of matched employee–employer data first disposes of the universality of this conventional wisdom. Then, it allows us to test an alternative, contingent theory of the mitigating impact of col…
A Forum on Emerging Technologies
As part of ILR Review's new special series "Novel Technologies at Work," this article introduces a forum composed of five industry studies that examine the drivers and impact of recent and impending technological change. Each of the studies, condensed from longer reports published over the past two years, relies on interviews with sectoral actors and other primary data to determine the relevant technologies confronting workers and managers and th…
Varieties of AI Regulations: The United States Perspective
labor and employment law; labor–management relations; labor market regulation; digital technology; labor market institutions; artificial intelligence
Technology Makers as De Facto Work Designers in American Healthcare
Artificial intelligence (AI) usually enters organizations as a tool whose work-design implications appear only after implementation. This study shifts the analytic starting point upstream to examine how healthcare AI “makers,” through market-facing narratives, frame AI as suitable for adoption in a regulated, professionally governed field. We ask how technology makers construct and legitimate work-design scripts before organizational implementati…
Business (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Health care (4 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Labour economics (3 works)