Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR)
Ph.D. Industrial Relations and Human Resources (Expected 2026)
· Dissertation: Organizing Passion to Power: Labor and Ally Organizing in the U.S. and Korean Video Game Industries
· Committee: Rebecca K. Givan (Chair), Tobias Schulze-Cleven, Dana Britton, and Johanna Weststar (Western University)
M.S. Industrial Relations and Human Resources (2022)
Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
M.S. Management (2019)
B.A. Business Administration and Applied Statistics (Double Major, 2016)
Employment relations in IT and creative industries; technologization of work; labor organizing and collective action; work–life spillover and identity; labor market inequality; occupational credentialing
(Peer-reviewed Journal)
Joy Kim and Jiyoon Park. "Regulations for Clinical Supervision in Social Work: Analysis of State Statutes and Clinical License Applicants." Clinical Social Work Journal (2026): 1-16.
(Book Chapters)
Naomi R. Williams and Jiyoon Park. 2024. Building Labor Solidarity Across Tenure Lines. In Claire Goldstene and Eric Jon Fure-Slocum (Eds.), Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History. University of Illinois Press.
(Book Reviews)
Jiyoon Park. 2021. Review of Millennial Feminism at Work, edited by Jane Juffer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 204 pp., ISBN: 978‐1501760280.
Rebecca K. Givan and Jiyoon Park. “Rethinking the Strike: A Comprehensive Framework.” (R & R at BJIR).
Joy Kim and Jiyoon Park. “The Effects of Occupational Certifications and Employment Settings on Childcare Employees’ Compensation in the United States.” (R & R at ECRQ).
Jiyoon Park, Maria L. Kraimer, Patrick E. Downes, and Jerry Liu. “The Impact of Social Media on Gendered Career Outcomes.” (Studies 1 and 2 completed; Study 3 in preparation).
Economic Inequality by Gender, Race, and Immigrant Status in the U.S. Information and Technology Industry Using Census Data (Data cleaning)
Labor Organizing in the U.S. and Korean Videogame Industries (Manuscript writing; Target: BJIR)
Consumer-labor Solidarity in the Korean Videogame Industry (Manuscript writing)
The Impact of Occupational Exoskeletons on Employment Relations (Manuscript writing)
Managerial Perception on Labor-management partnership in Clinical Settings (Data Analysis)
Jiyoon Park. 2026. Korean Labor Organizing in the Videogame Sector. Presented at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) 38th Annual Conference, Bordeaux, France.
Jiyoon Park. 2026. Consumer–Labor Solidarity in the Korean Game Industry: Online Activism, Industry Sexism, and the Emergence of the Korean Game Consumer Association. Presented at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) 38th Annual Conference, Bordeaux, France.
Jiyoon Park. 2026. Labor organizing in the U.S. and Korean Video Game Industries. Presented at the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) 78th Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.
Jiyoon Park. 2025. From Passion to Power: Labor Organizing in the U.S. and Korean Video Game Industries. Presented at the Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) National Conference, Washington, D.C.
Jiyoon Park. 2024. Game Worker Organizing in South Korea. Presented at the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT) Workshop: Game Worker Organizing – Regional Case Studies I, Montréal, Canada.
Jiyoon Park, Maria L. Kraimer, Patrick E. Downes, and Jerry Liu. 2024. The Cost of Me-Time: Social Media as a Window into Gendered Career Outcomes. Presented at the Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Jiyoon Park. 2024. Consumer–Labor Solidarity in the Korean Game Industry: Online Activism, Industry Sexism, and the Emergence of the Korean Game Consumer Association. Presented at the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) 76th Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
Jiyoon Park, Maria L. Kraimer, Patrick E. Downes, and Jerry Liu. 2023. Picture-Perfect Workers: Social Media as a Window into the Motherhood Penalty in Career Outcomes. Presented at the Southern Management Association (SMA) Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Jiyoon Park and Rebecca K. Givan. 2023. An Integrative Framework for U.S. Strike Studies. Presented at the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) 75th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
Tobias Schulze-Cleven, Alysa Hannon, Jacob Barnes, Jiyoon Park, and Seonghoon Hong. 2022. Bringing Critical Race Theory and Principles of Intersectionality to Bear within Industrial Relations Scholarship: Emergent Perspectives. Presented at the CRIMT Doctoral Day, Montréal, Canada.
Jiyoon Park and Seonghoon Hong. 2022. Intersectionality Research in Labor Studies and Employment Relations: A Systematic Review. Presented at the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) 74th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.
Jiyoon Park. 2022. The Interlinks between Workers' Mobility and Work Effort Struggles: The Case of the Korean Game Industry. Presented at the 40th International Labour Process Conference (ILPC), Padua, Italy.
Jiyoon Park. 2017. Managing Redundant Men? Neoliberal Governmentality of Social Enterprise in South Korea. Presented at the 10th International Critical Management Studies (CMS) Conference, Liverpool, UK.
Best Paper in Track (2023). Southern Management Association, Track 5: Careers, Social Issues, Diversity Issues, and Ethics.
Doctoral Student Teaching Excellence Award (2023). School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University.
Instructor, Rutgers University – School of Management and Labor Relations
Introduction to Labor Studies and Employment Relations (Fall 2025)
Organizational Behavior (Fall 2024 – Spring 2025)
Working Women in American Society (Spring 2022 – Spring 2023)
Teaching Assistant, Rutgers University – School of Management and Labor Relations
Working Women in American Society (Fall 2021)
Research Assistant, Rutgers University – School of Management and Labor Relations
Occupational Exoskeleton Project (Professor Helen Liu, Fall 2024 – Summer 2025)
Clinical Social Worker Project (Professors Joy Kim and Michael Joo, Fall 2023 – Fall 2024)
Childcare Credentialing Project (Professor Joy Kim, Fall 2022 – Spring 2023)
Strike Theory Literature Review (Professor Rebecca K. Givan, Fall 2020 – Spring 2021)
Faculty Contract Analysis (Professor Naomi R. Williams, Fall 2019 – Spring 2020)
Local Labor Law Enforcement Agency Project (Professors Janice Fine and Hana Shepherd, Fall 2019)
Rutgers Scholarship, Spring 2025 ($1,000)
Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) New Scholars Research Grant, 2024 ($3,000)
Rutgers Research Travel Grant, 2024 ($500)
CRIMT Mobility Funding, 2022 & 2024 ($800 each)
Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations Internal Funding, 2019–2024 (Five years stipend and tuition remission)
Organizing and Leadership
Activism in the Videogame Industry LERA session organizer (2024)
Ph.D. Student Representative, Labor Studies and Employment Relations Program, Rutgers SMLR (2022–2023)
Organizer, Future of Work Grant (Center for Global Work and Employment, Rutgers University, 2021–2022)
Student Organizer, CRIMT Doctoral Day (2022)
Professional Service
Discussant, National Assembly Forum on Online Harassment in the Video Game Industry (2024)
Ad-hoc Reviewer: Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), Academy of Management (AOM)
Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA)
Academy of Management (AOM)
The Korea Academic Society of Industrial Organization