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 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.
Latest news
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go to the Advancing Healthcare Equity for Indigenous Peoples through Community Dialogue news
Advancing Healthcare Equity for Indigenous Peoples through Community DialogueA team supported by Incite's Global Change Program (GCP) hosted a three-day event dedicated to enhancing healthcare access for Indigenous Peoples (IPs) in the Philippines.
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go to the Meet the lab tackling the global forced disappearance crisis news
Meet the lab tackling the global forced disappearance crisisThe Social Study of Disappearance Lab—which examines disappearance as a social phenomenon—joins Incite Institute.
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go to the Capturing an oral history of global investigative journalism news
Capturing an oral history of global investigative journalismSupported by Incite Institute, Columbia Journalism School researcher Adiel Kaplan is archiving the last 50 years of international investigative journalism through oral history interviews.
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go to the Introducing the 2025 Incite Institute Doctoral Dissertation Fellows news
Introducing the 2025 Incite Institute Doctoral Dissertation FellowsEleven Columbia PhD students are using everything from archaeological digs to economic modeling to tackle some of today's most pressing questions—how communities survive trauma, whether Arctic plants can keep pace with climate change, and what justice looks like in contested spaces.