Center for Work and Democracy
El Centro del Trabajo y Democracia
Renewing Labor and Winning at Amazon
Authors Michael McQuarrie, Jonathan Rosenblum, and Benjamin Y. Fong confront the failures of the modern labor movement and explore avenues for movement renewal in the face of corporate behemoths in their new report.
Unions and Electoral Politics: Can Union Candidates Make a Difference?
In a new report from the Center for Working-Class Politics, the Center for Work and Democracy, and Jacobin, researchers explore the role of unions and union candidates in American electoral politics.
Majority Rules 2025: Trends in State-Level Ballot Initiative Voting
This new report from the Center for Work and Democracy provides updated research and analysis of ballot measures and the struggle for popular democracy in the United States.
Beyond the NLRB: Contemporary 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.
"Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO"
Explore "Organize the Unorganized," a podcast from Dr. Ben Fong on the growth, importance, and legacy of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
On The Seams
On The Seams is a Substack newsletter created by Associate Director Ben Fong and former Visiting Scholar Scott Jenkins. As behemoths like Walmart and Amazon expand their logistical operations, understanding their evolution is key for effective organizing. The newsletter discusses labor and logistics and intends to be an informational hub for organizers, researchers, and labor strategists.
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
Renewing Labor and Winning at Amazon
Michael McQuarrie, Jonathan Rosenblum, and Benjamin Y. Fong
McQuarrie, Rosenblum, and Fong confront the failures of the modern labor movement and explore avenues for movement renewal in the face of corporate behemoths in their new report.
"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
Project spotlight
Beyond the NLRB: Contemporary Strategies and Practices for Labor Movement Renewal
Benjamin Y. Fong Michael McQuarrie, and Maria Esch
This research looks at different worker empowerment strategies outside of the National Labor Relations Board model that have potential to build the political power of working people or redistribute social wealth.
