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 the Center
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go to the Grocery Delivery Workers Project project
Grocery Delivery Workers ProjectAdvancing 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.
Latest news
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go to the Center for the Study of Social Difference seeks proposals for new working groups news
Center for the Study of Social Difference seeks proposals for new working groupsThe Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University welcomes proposals for new working groups to begin in Fall 2025. -
go to the Incite's new Hard Questions grants seed bold Columbia initiatives news
Incite's new Hard Questions grants seed bold Columbia initiativesOur new grants seed up to $75,000 for Columbia Arts and Sciences research initiatives that tackle hard questions with innovative, risky, and promising approaches. -
go to the Who profits when prison life becomes reality TV? news
Who profits when prison life becomes reality TV?As the popularity of incarcerated reality shows have increased, one grassroots organization is working to expose and dismantle the exploitation of incarcerated individuals as a result of what they call the “prison-televisual complex.” -
go to the How Nashville artists are taking their fight for equity to the airwaves news
How Nashville artists are taking their fight for equity to the airwavesIn a city where just twenty large arts organizations receive roughly 80% of public arts funding, a grassroots collective is creating their own media platform to tell the story that local outlets won't.