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Virginia Doellgast is the Anne Evans Estabrook Professor of Employment Relations and Dispute Resolution in the ILR School at Cornell University and a Senior Research Fellow at WSI-Hans Böckler Stiftung. Her research examines the relationship between labor market and collective bargaining institutions, inequality, and job quality, with a focus on the U.S. and Europe. She is the author of Disintegrating Democracy at Work and co-editor of Reconstructing Solidarity. Her forthcoming book Exit, Voice, and Solidarity compares labor responses to restructuring (outsourcing, downsizing, and performance management) in the telecommunications industry. She is currently studying the impact of digitalization and AI on job quality in the ICT services industry and ‘just transitions’ to e-mobility in the auto industry, based on comparative research in the U.S., Canada, Germany, and Norway.