Reports
Director of the NYU Wagner Labor Initiative Terri Gerstein has authored numerous articles and reports on labor-related topics, both in her current position and in her prior work as director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Center for Labor and a Just Economy.
Quick Fixes to Lock in Wins for Workers: How States Can Preserve New Federal Protections, (co-author Paul Sonn), National Employment Law Project, November, 26, 2024.
How Local Government Can Stand Up for Workers When States Try to Stand in Their Way, (co-author LiJia Gong), Local Progress and NYU Wagner Labor Initiative, September 2, 2024.
Policies for states and localities to fight oppressive child labor, Economic Policy Institute and NYU Wagner Labor Initiative, February 27, 2024.
- Localities take action to protect workers, Labor Day Report 2023 (co-author Vishal Reddy), Economic Policy Institute, Harvard Center for Labor and a Just Economy, Local Progress, September 4, 2023.
- Power in partnership: How government agencies and community partners are joining forces to fight wage theft (co-author Rachel Deutsch), Economic Policy Institute and Harvard Center for Labor and a Just Economy, June 8, 2023.
- A Role for State Attorneys General in a Just Transition, (co-authors Bethany Davis Noll and Tiernaur Anderson), Harvard Labor and Worklife Program and State Energy and Environmental Impact Center, NYU School of Law, December, 2022.
- The role of local government in protecting workers' rights, (co-author LiJia Gong), Economic Policy Institute, Harvard Labor and Worklife Program, Local Progress, June 13, 2022. Related: One page checklist on how local government can advance workers' rights.
- How district attorneys and state attorneys general are fighting workplace abuses, Economic Policy Institute and Harvard Labor and Worklife Program, May 17, 2021.
- Workers’ rights protection and enforcement by state attorneys general, Economic Policy Institute and Harvard Labor and Worklife Program, August 27, 2020.
- Protecting Workers Through Publicity: Promoting Workplace Law Compliance Through Strategic Communication, (co-author Tanya Goldman), Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) and Harvard Labor and Worklife Program, June 2020.
- How States and Localities Can Protect Workplace Safety and Health, (co-authors Jane Flanagan and Patricia Smith), Harvard Labor and Worklife Program and National Employment Law Project, May 15, 2020.
- State and local labor standards enforcement during COVID-19, (co-author Jane Flanagan), Economic Policy Institute and Harvard Labor and Worklife Program, April 28, 2020.
- Confronting Misclassification and Payroll Fraud: A Survey of State Labor Standards Enforcement Agencies (co-author Mark Erlich), Harvard Labor and Worklife Program, June 2019.
- State attorneys general can play key roles in protecting workers’ rights, (co-author Marni von Wilpert), Economic Policy Institute, May 7, 2018.