Labor Research & Action Network (LRAN) is an exciting collaboration connecting academics and labor practitioners to help build workplace and economic power.

Washington, DC
Joined July 2017
Presentations of the New Scholars Grant winners! #LRAN2026
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Great lunch plenary session on Black Women Workers and Labor Resistance Stories. #LRAN2026
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Panels sessions have started! From Temp Work to Robot Bosses: Trends Shaping the Future of Work. #LRAN2026
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Lessons from the Screen Trade: Labor Strategies in the Post-Pandemic Media Industries. #LRAN2026
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We're less than 24 hours away from #WRD2026. It's not too late to join us, but if you can't make it, follow along on our Stories for real-time highlights and takeaways all weekend. 🔔 📸 Instagram: @jwjnational 🦋 Bluesky: @jwj.org whova.com/portal/registratio…
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The 2026 LRAN Conference has started in Atlanta, hosted at the Teamsters Local 728 union hall! #LRAN2026 @jwjnational
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MEET US IN ATLANTA! Join us in Atlanta for the 2026 National Conference: Workers Revive Democracy, happening May 14–16, 2026, in ATL. This is more than a conference–it’s a call to action! 🎟️: jwj.org/2026-conference For more updates + info follow us on IG & Bluesky.
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The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee is supporting workers in organizing and taking action on the shop floor even when an NLRB election isn’t yet on the table. This kind of “premajority unionism” may be key to reversing labor’s decline.jacobin.com/2026/03/organizi…
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Despite an uptick in successful National Labor Relations Board elections in recent years, unions have still not been able to organize workers at the necessary speed. Strategies to organize workplaces outside the NLRA framework may provide a way forward: jacobin.com/2026/03/organizi…
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The US labor movement is not organizing nearly enough workers to grow, and other strategies are needed, I argue here.
Despite an uptick in successful National Labor Relations Board elections in recent years, unions have still not been able to organize workers at the necessary speed. Strategies to organize workplaces outside the NLRA framework may provide a way forward: jacobin.com/2026/03/organizi…
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I had a great time interviewing Dave Kamper about his new book, Who’s Got the Power: The Resurgence of American Unions! #UnionYes #LaborHistory podbean.com/ea/pb-4f93w-19fb…
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My latest review of a great book. #UnionYes "Every few years a book comes out that tries to explain what’s happening in the labor movement...Dave Kamper’s new book, Who’s Got the Power: The Resurgence of American Unions, does the job." labornotes.org/blogs/2025/12…
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The 2026 Labor Research & Action Network Conference will be in Atlanta, GA, May 14-15 in conjunction with the Jobs with Justice Conference. The WEB DuBois Southern Center for Studies in Public Policy at Clark Atlanta University will co-host #UnionYes @jwjnational
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Thanks @Labor_Research for having us at #LRAN2025 last week.
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The LRAN Three Minute Thesis Competition at #LRAN2025. Researchers use 3 minutes and 1 slide to present their project!
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