Luddite Lab Resource Hub
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Luddite Lab Resource Hub: a resource hub (case studies, primers and a resource library), one of the Luddite Lab's two offerings; the other is trainings for unions, labor organizations and worker organizations around automation and AI. Operator: Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR); the hub's About page lists Alex Hanna (Director of Research), Adrienne Williams and Hannah Lipstein as its team, and AI Weekly reports the team as led by Alex Hanna and Hannah Lipstein. Its unit: a resource: a case study of worker organizers resisting AI, a primer, or a reviewed resource in the library (research and policy primers, organizing toolkits, political education, contract language, alternative technology projects). Whose labor: the work of union members and worker-organizers facing AI, automation and workplace surveillance, in industries the hub names as journalism, entertainment and nursing.
The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and organizers fighting AI and automation at work.
In its own words: https://labor.dair-institute.org/about, read 2026-10-29
Who supplies, who directs, who gains
Supplies the laborworkers in the industries its conversations reached (journalism, entertainment, nursing)
Directs itnot recorded in the saved pages
Receives the gains, bears the costsnot recorded
Each as the resource itself records it. Where it records nothing, the census says so.
What it records
| Intersections | Worker power: bargaining, organizing, consent, refusal, contestation and enforceable protections; AI governing labor: hiring, surveillance, scheduling, quotas, evaluation and discipline |
| Kind of evidence | organizing resourceworker testimony |
| Unit of record | a resource: a case study of worker organizers resisting AI, a primer, or a reviewed resource in the library (research and policy primers, organizing toolkits, political education, contract language, alternative technology projects) |
| Whose labor | the work of union members and worker-organizers facing AI, automation and workplace surveillance, in industries the hub names as journalism, entertainment and nursing |
| Method | dozens of conversations with unionists from multiple industries, literature reviews of existing struggles, and the team's background in the labor movement op |
| Coverage | geography: not stated; period: not stated (pages © 2026) |
| What it finds | unionists in journalism, entertainment and nursing have been fighting, and winning, against industrial automation and workplace surveillance (its own statement of the conversations behind the hub) |
| Its stated limits | the library selects resources it finds helpful and actionable as organizing tools, and typically shies away from general statements of principles |
op the resource's own statement · 3p a third-party account · obs our observation · rd our reading. Hover a tag for its quote; each opens below with its source.
What this evidence can settle
Can answer
- which organizing strategies workers have used to push back against AI and automation at work, as the case studies tell them
- where to find organizing toolkits and examples of pro-worker contract language on automation and AI
Cannot answer
- how widespread any strategy is, or its measured outcome
- any quantity of exposure, adoption or employment change
In the worked questions
Where it meets Labor Vector
rd The hub supplies workers' strategies for refusing and governing technology at work; it meets the directionality stack at the point of contesting who directs labor. None stated on DSL, task-origin or user labor drag.
Entity
| Canonical name | Luddite Lab Resource Hub |
| Also known as | Luddite Lab, the Luddite Lab at DAIR |
| Address | https://labor.dair-institute.org/ |
| Operator | Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR); the hub's About page lists Alex Hanna (Director of Research), Adrienne Williams and Hannah Lipstein as its team, and AI Weekly reports the team as led by Alex Hanna and Hannah Lipstein op |
| Founded | launched 2026-05-20 |
| Kind | resource hub (case studies, primers and a resource library), one of the Luddite Lab's two offerings; the other is trainings for unions, labor organizations and worker organizations around automation and AI |
| Lifecycle | active — the Resource Hub launched in a virtual event on Wednesday 20 May 2026, announced in the Lab's newsletter post of 5 May 2026; its first primer reported by AI Weekly on 28 June 2026; pages carry © 2026; consultation and general contact forms open |
| Count | not stated (as of 2026-10-29) |
| Data access | a public website |
| Licence | © 2026 DAIR. All rights reserved. op |
| Versions and dates | launch announced: 2026-05-05; launched: 2026-05-20; primer reported: 2026-06-28 (AI Weekly: 'Myths About Generative AI, Productivity, and Job Displacement', in an executive summary and a full version); pages: © 2026; read: 2026-10-29 |
| Observation | 2026-10-29: read |
Relations
Neighbours
Captures: the composition layer's account
The /non row
Evidenceevery field's quote, its source and the hash of the saved copy24
- self description op
The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and organizers fighting AI and automation at work.
- self description op
We provide strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library.
- method op
This Resource Hub is the result of dozens of conversations with unionists from multiple different industries, such as journalism, entertainment, and nursing, who have been fighting–and winning–against industrial automation and workplace surveillance at work; literature reviews of existing struggles; and our background in the labor movement.
- scope op
This is a publicly accessible resource which not only discusses the harms of particular technologies, but also highlights a range of organizing strategies which workers have used to push back.
- operator op
The Luddite Lab is a project of the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) .
- case studies op
Stories from worker organizers resisting AI
- primers op
Applied research insights into AI, automation, and the future of work
- library op
The resources include research-based and policy-centered primers, organizing toolkits aimed at mobilizing non-unionized and precarious workers, tools for starting conversations with colleagues about generative AI, and repositories and examples of draft contract language for technology governance.
- limit op
We highlight those resources which we find to be helpful and actionable as organizing tools. This means we typically shy away from general statements of principles.
- contract language op
Examples of pro-worker contract language related to automation and AI
- alt tech op
Examples of technology platforms built by workers, to protect their rights
- team op
Alex Hanna She/Her Director of Research, DAIR Institute
- team op
Hannah Lipstein is a Research Associate with the Luddite Lab at DAIR.
- team op
Adrienne Williams Community-Based Researcher, DAIR Institute
- team led 3p
The team is led by Alex Hanna, Director of Research at DAIR, and Hannah Lipstein, Research Associate there.
- two offerings op
We aim to provide two different offerings: 1) an accessible resource hub which outlines case studies and strategies for governance and oversight of technology at work, both in general and for specific worker groups; and 2) trainings for unions, labor organizations, and worker organizations around automation and AI.
- launch post date op
May 5, 2026 Join us for the Luddite Lab Launch!
- launch op
as we release the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a new resource for fighting AI at work. This virtual launch is on Wednesday, May 20 at 9 AM - 10 AM PDT.
- primer 3p
The Luddite Lab, a DAIR project, published a primer titled 'Myths About Generative AI, Productivity, and Job Displacement.'
- primer date 3p
Published June 28, 2026 at 18:12 UTC
- homonym 3p
Luddite Labs is empowering the next generation of software developers.
- homonym 3p
Our AI-powered tools help developers spend more time creating software solutions and less time debugging and maintaining code.
- homonym 3p
4445 Eastgate Mall San Diego, California 92121 US
- license op
© 2026 DAIR. All rights reserved.
Negative tagswhat it is not5
- NOT a dataset or measurement
- NOT neutral on AI at work: it is built for workers fighting AI and automation
- NOT a general statement of AI principles
- NOT the Luddite Lab's trainings, its other offering
- NOT Luddite Labs, the San Diego software company whose AI-powered tools serve software developers (ludditelabs.io)
Sourcesevery source read, with its date and hash7
Not yet checkedwhat remains to read4
- the case studies, primers and the library's subpages (only the home, about and resources index pages were saved)
- the team bios behind 'Click for Bio'
- the primer's own text (not saved; AI Weekly states its arguments cannot be read without downloading the documents)
- the trainings, the Lab's other offering
Cite this record
Lee Sharks, ed. "Luddite Lab Resource Hub." Labor Vector meta-aggregator, laborvector.org, compiled 2026-10-29. https://www.laborvector.org/aggregators/dair-luddite-lab
Record https://www.laborvector.org/aggregators/dair-luddite-lab · entity https://www.laborvector.org/aggregators/dair-luddite-lab#entity · the census as data
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