Biko Koenig
Assistant Professor in government and public policy at Franklin & Marshall College and co-founder of Research Action, a worker-owned research and organizing firm; ethnographer whose work investigates labor organizing and political mobilization, and author of Worker-Centered (Oxford UP, 2024).
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Mar 11, 2026 • 1h 1min
Biko Koenig, "Worker Centered: Allyship & Action in the Contemporary Labor Movement" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Biko Koenig, an ethnographer and assistant professor who co-founded a worker-owned research and organizing firm, discusses a close-up study of a labor campaign at an immigrant, low-wage workplace. He recounts why the campaign failed to win core demands, tensions between ally action and worker leadership, practical organizing tactics, and how media and framing shape collective identity and mobilization.
