Center for Work and Democracy
El Centro del Trabajo y Democracia
Projects: Ballot Initiatives
The Ballot Initiatives Project explores the current fight over voters’ access to the ballot initiative process.
Podcast: "Organize the Unorganized"
Explore "Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO," a podcast from Dr. Ben Fong on the growth, importance, and legacy of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Project: Non-NLRB Strategies and Practices for Labor Movement Renewal
This research looks at different worker empowerment strategies outside of the NLRB model that have potential to build the political power of working people or redistribute social wealth.
Video: 2024 Conference Recap
This year, the CWD's annual conference was focused on Worker Power and Economic Democracy. You can watch a recap of the conference on our YouTube channel!
Amplifying voices
The Center for Work and Democracy was founded in 2019 to connect university knowledge production to the challenges facing working people in our increasingly unequal and exclusionary society. The video on the right tells the Center's story.
The Center understands that working people have been marginalized in our polity, and conducts research with organizations whose missions are to increase the voice and power of the working class in order to support greater social change.
Project spotlight
Majority Rules: The Battle for Ballot Initiatives
Benjamin S. Case, Michael McQuarrie
The Ballot Initiatives Project explores the current fight over voters’ access to the ballot initiative process.
Upcoming events
"One of the things I really love about the Center is that it approaches scholarship in a way that I think is valuable and necessary... We use academic modes of training and we try to create research that we can share with the broader public"
– Rashad Shabazz, Advisory Board Member