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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Introducing the 2026 Inaugural Incite Institute Doctoral Dissertation FellowsWe're excited to announce this year's cohort of Incite Dissertation Fellows. In keeping with Incite Institute's commitment to bringing disciplines together across the university, the Fellows Program brings together PhD candidates at the dissertation writing stage for a year of close, sustained engagement with the thinking of colleagues from disciplines other than their own. -
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Incite's Investigative Journalism Oral History Lands in Mother Jones 50th Anniversary RetrospectiveFor its 50th anniversary issue, Mother Jones turned to Incite's developing oral history archive of investigative journalism, using interviews conducted by project lead Adiel Kaplan as primary sources for its founding history. -
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Incite’s Trust Collaboratory Hosts The First Community Conversation for AI Research ProjectOn June 29, the Trust Collaboratory's TeLLLMe project gathered researchers, skeptics, and community members in Harlem for the first in a series of conversations aimed at building a more democratic, publicly accountable AI platform. -
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First PersonColumbia College Today's Alex Boncy highlights five alumni that were interviewed in the Obama Presidency Oral History.