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.

  • Personnel
    • Adam Reich Director
    • Patrick Youngblood Research Manager
  • Learn More laborlabcu.org

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.

To learn more, visit the Columbia Labor Lab.

Projects led by the Center

  • 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.

     Funded by United Food and Commercial Workers
  • 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. 

     Funded by JPAL-MIT, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Urban Institute, and Washington Center for Equitable Growth
  • 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.

     In partnership with Organization United for Respect at Walmart

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