Building on an emerging literature concerning algorithmic management, this article analyzes the processes by which food delivery platforms control workers and uncovers variation in the extent to which such platforms constrain the freedoms—over schedules and activities—associated with gig work.
Read MoreThis policy, authored by the Center for Oral History in 2007, clarifies which oral history activities conducted by Columbia University faculty, staff, and students require Institutional Review Board (IRB) review.
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The collection's 38 interviews document the Tunisian revolution (2010-2011) and the period of the transitional governments (2011-2014), with a particular emphasis on the technocratic government of Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa (January 2014-December 2015).
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Robert Rauschenberg is a work of collaborative oral biography that tells the story of one of the twentieth century’s great artists through a series of interviews with key figures in his life—family, friends, former lovers, professional associates, studio assistants, and collaborators.
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Focusing on the state of Kerala in southern India, we examine the conditions under which the remittances that migrants send home have an impact on the health of women left behind. Specifically, we assess the extent to which the timing of remittance sending can support women’s autonomy, and hence improve their autonomous healthcare decision-making and mobility to health facilities.
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In Working for Respect, Adam Reich and Peter Bearman examine how workers make sense of their jobs at places like Walmart in order to consider the nature of contemporary low-wage work, as well as the obstacles and opportunities such workplaces present as sites of struggle for social and economic justice.
Read MoreThis paper explores the proliferation of wearable technology, how the data might help researchers understand population health trends, and describes the concept called a “domestic health index,” or DHI, as both a promotional tool and as a valuable dataset in its own right.
Read MoreThis article uses an INCITE-created database of subscribers to the New York Philharmonic to explore how high culture became a form of socially valuable capital in late-19th-century America. The authors find support for the classic account of high culture’s purification and exclusiveness.
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This project explores Americans who identify as white or partially white think about their racial identities, along with a variety of other issues. We surveyed 850 participants in three U.S. cities and interviewed 116 of these participants.
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This collection documents the life experiences of LGBTQ individuals who are alumni of Columbia University or are otherwise affiliated with the university.
Read MoreA definitive guide to the editing and publication of oral history transcripts.
Read MoreWe combined fMRI and longitudinal social network data to test whether newly acquainted group members’ reward-related neural responses to images of one another’s faces predict their future interpersonal sentiment, even many months later.
Read MoreWe show that it is possible to induce a semantic network image of the Bible, that this structure serves as a skeletal frame for interpretation, thereby highlighting different contents as central to denominations’ religious inspirations and concerns.
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