Columbia Labor Lab - Incite at Columbia University
Columbia Labor Lab
A lab focused on working with labor organizations to restore the political and economic power of workers using social science and data.
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The Columbia Labor Lab leverages the tools of social science to understand and strengthen efforts to rebuild the economic and political power of workers.
Housed at at Incite Institute, the Labor Lab partners with unions and worker associations, affording it access to unique data and providing it opportunities to directly test the implications that follow from its work.
With its partners, the Labor Lab directly apply state-of-the-art research methods in the social sciences: large-scale surveys, interviews, field experimental designs, administrative data linking and analysis, and machine learning.
Projects led by this unit
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go to the Grocery Delivery Workers Project project
Grocery Delivery Workers Project
Advancing understandings of the grocery delivery workforce using sales data, worker reviews, surveys, and interviews.
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go to the Healthcare Unionization Study project
Healthcare Unionization Study
Evaluating the causal impact of labor organizing on health and labor market outcomes in the healthcare sector.
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go to the Summer for Respect: Organizing and Oral History project
Summer for Respect: Organizing and Oral History
Spending a summer documenting economic disenfranchisement across America through oral history interviews with workers' groups.
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go to the Workers' Health on the Line project
Workers' Health on the Line
Evaluating the effects of digital tools for enhancing workers’ collective efficacy and well-being.
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go to the As Columbia unveils official oral history of President Barack Obama, CC ’83, project leaders reflect on how they captured his ‘transformational presidency’ news
As Columbia unveils official oral history of President Barack Obama, CC ’83, project leaders reflect on how they captured his ‘transformational presidency’Originally published in the Spectator, Columbia University student Joseph Zuloaga writes about Columbia's role in the Obama Presidency Oral History. -
go to the Obama Took On Recession, Health Care and Iraq. What He Didn’t See Coming Was Trump. news
Obama Took On Recession, Health Care and Iraq. What He Didn’t See Coming Was Trump.The New York Times spotlighted Incite Institute's Obama Presidency Oral History Project, an archive of more than 450 interviews offering behind-the-scenes perspectives on the Barack Obama administration. -
go to the Presidents’ Days: From Obama to Trump news
Presidents’ Days: From Obama to TrumpThe New Yorker reviews Incite's Obama Presidency Oral History through the lens of the current Trump administration, calling it a "stark and extensive reminder of the values and the principles that are being trampled." -
go to the Barnard students and faculty take part in novel national study of American immigration courtrooms news
Barnard students and faculty take part in novel national study of American immigration courtroomsThe study, supported by a $75,000 grant from the Incite Institute at Columbia, tracks court dynamics through courtroom observation by students.