Virginia Doellgast is the Anne Evans Estabrook professor of employment relations and dispute resolution in the Industrial and Labor Relations School at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the comparative political economy of labor markets and labor unions, inequality, precarity, and democracy at work. She is currently studying the impact of digitalization and AI on job quality in the telecommunications and game development industries. She is author of Exit, Voice, and Solidarity (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Disintegrating Democracy at Work (Cornell University Press, 2012), coeditor of International and Comparative Employment Relations (Sage, 2021) and Reconstructing Solidarity (Oxford University Press, 2018), and coeditor of the ILR Review.
Doellgast works with international universities and research institutes, policy organizations, and labor unions in her research, teaching, and outreach. She is a senior research fellow at the WSI-Hans Böckler Stiftung in Germany and was previously a faculty member at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at King’s College London in the UK. She was president of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) in 2024–25.