Supporting Organizations

Institute for Construction Economic Research (ICERES)

http://iceres.org/

The construction industry and its stakeholders face pressing long term issues regarding workforce sustainability, safety, productivity and integration of technology. The Institute for Construction Economic Research (ICERES) supports high quality research with the goal of finding and disseminating pragmatic solutions to these and other construction issues. The Institute for Construction Economic Research undertakes non-partisan research on issues facing the industry, collaborating with existing construction researchers and attracting new investigators into the field of construction research. The Institute also works to develop a network of researchers with ongoing programs on construction issues. In addition to its work in supporting research, the Institute disseminates this research with a working paper series, a web presence, and conferences.

University of Massachusetts Amherst Labor Center

https://www.umass.edu/lrrc/

For over fifty years, the University of Massachusetts Amherst Labor Center has been one of the premiere graduate programs in Labor Studies in the United States with over 1,000 graduates in key position in the Commonwealth and nationwide. In addition to our innovative graduate programs, the UMass Amherst Labor Center has an extensive program of applied and policy research. This has includes studies of: wage theft; asbestos monitoring; temporary staffing agencies and labor law; and the state of labor and employment in Massachusetts. Most recently the Center launched a Covid-19 Workplace Project.