Honoring Alice Cook

Jennifer Curtin, left, from Monash University, Australia, is applauded by Edward Lawler, dean of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Nov. 21, in the Statler Terrace, at a dinner launching a conference honoring the work of the late Alice Cook on women and unions. Cook was a former ILR professor whose efforts to improve the situation of working women influenced generations of scholars and activists. Curtin, an authority on women and trade unions, delivered the conference's keynote speech, "Beyond Borders: Women, Unions and the Challenge of Globalization." The event attracted experts on women and labor worldwide as well as current and former chairs of the New York State Assembly's Committee on Labor, Susan John (D-131st Dist.) and Catherine Nolan (D-37th Dist.), and Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton (D-125th Dist.). Frank DiMeo/University Photography