Projects
What We Do
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The Center for Work and Democracy pursues research projects that advance the Center’s mission. These projects are determined by our affiliates and our advisory board and are executed using social scientific and historical methods. The projects that we pursue often surround topics that deserve more academic attention or ones that are responsive to specific requests from stakeholders, affiliates, and partners.
Currently our projects span topics from labor organizing, to working-class politics, to protest, and more.
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 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 NRLB: 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.
Labor and Logistics
This project is devoted to exploring the sophisticated logistical operations that constitute key components of the circulatory system of the American economy.
"We support movements that are articulations of the aspirations of working people, whether or not they aim to form workplace organizations. So we have and continue to support movements for racial justice, immigrant rights, climate transition, and climate justice"
– Michael McQuarrie, Director
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The Free State of George Floyd