Adam Reich - Incite at Columbia University

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Adam Reich specializes in economic and cultural sociology.

He is the author of four books, the most recent of which is Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart (Columbia, 2018), co-authored with Peter Bearman. Reich is the co-director (with Suresh Naidu) of the Columbia Labor Lab. During the 2022–2023 academic year, Reich is a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Projects

  • go to Apprenticeship and Re-entry
    Apprenticeship and Re-entry
    Evaluating the economic and criminal legal impacts of building trades pre-apprenticeship programs for people returning from incarceration. Funded by Arnold Ventures
  • go to Carceral Labor in the Auto Industry
    Carceral Labor in the Auto Industry
    Examining how prison labor affects wages and working conditions across Alabama's automotive supply chain.
    In Partnership with Jobs to Move America
  • go to Domestic Health Index
    Domestic Health Index
    Developing a domestic health index using data from wearable technologies. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • go to Grocery Delivery Workers 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 Healthcare Unionization Study
    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 Identifying Latent Leaders
    Identifying Latent Leaders
    Using predictive modeling to identify potential organizers and activists within union membership data. In Partnership with SEIU Local 32BJ and Communications Workers of America
  • go to Organizing for New York
    Organizing for New York
    Conducting the first comprehensive study of organizers across social justice struggles in New York City. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • go to Summer for Respect: Organizing and Oral History
    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
  • go to Workers' Health on the Line
    Workers' Health on the Line
    Evaluating the effects of digital tools for enhancing workers’ collective efficacy and well-being. Funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Related Works

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    Adam Reich, Hana Shepherd, "Relational Organizing Curriculum", September 1, 2025

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    Adam Reich, Hana Shepherd, "United for Retail: Care & Support for Retail Workers", September 1, 2025

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    Hana Shepherd, Rebecca Roskill, Suresh Naidu, Adam Reich, "Workplace Networks and the Dynamics of Worker Organizing", Sociological Science, August 28, 2025

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    Arindrajit Dube, Suresh Naidu, Adam Reich, "Power and Dignity in the Low-Wage Labor Market: Theory and Evidence from Wal-Mart Workers", National Bureau of Economic Research, September 1, 2024

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    Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Suresh Naidu, Adam Reich, "Schooled by Strikes? The Effects of Large-Scale Labor Unrest on Mass Attitudes toward the Labor Movement", Perspectives on Politics, June 2, 2021

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    Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Suresh Naidu, Adam Reich, Patrick Youngblood, "Quantitative Tools for Service Sector Organizing", New Labor Forum, February 8, 2021

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    Peter Bearman, Adam Reich, "Distinguished Book Award", Columbia University Press, September 26, 2019

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    Luke Elliott-Negri, Kathleen Griesbach, Ruth Milkman, Adam Reich, "Algorithmic Control in Platform Food Delivery Work", Socius, August 30, 2019

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    Peter Bearman, Adam Reich, Kathryn Neckerman, "How Wearable Devices Can Promote the Culture of Health", Incite Institute, January 1, 2019

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    Peter Bearman, Adam Reich, Kathryn Neckerman, "Domestic Health Index", Incite Institute at Columbia University, January 1, 2019

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    Peter Bearman, Adam Reich, "Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart", Columbia University Press, July 24, 2018

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    Zerubavel, Noam, Mark Anthony Hoffman, Adam Reich, Kevin Ochsner, Peter Bearman, "Neural Precursors of Future Liking and its Mutual Reciprocation", PNAS, April 9, 2018

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    Suresh Naidu, Adam Reich, "Collective Action and Customer Service in Retail", ILR Review, December 14, 2017

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    Adam Reich, "The Organizational Trace of an Insurgent Moment: Occupy Wall Street and New York City’s Social Movement Field, 2004 to 2015", Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, March 22, 2017

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    Adam Reich, "Selling Our Souls", Princeton University Press, August 7, 2014

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    Adam Reich, "Contradictions in the Commodification of Hospital Care", American Journal of Sociology, May 1, 2014

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