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Marcos Ruiz2026-07-08 09:59:222026-07-08 10:17:30Labor Studies Celebrates Its First Graduating Class as a DepartmentThe Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) is a multidisciplinary research center advancing labor research and education for economic justice. Through the work of its units, academic department and research initiatives, the Institute powers wide-ranging economic equity agendas that bring UCLA into the Los Angeles community and beyond.
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Marcos Ruiz2026-07-08 09:59:222026-07-08 10:17:30Labor Studies Celebrates Its First Graduating Class as a Department
UCLA LOSH team poses for a group photo at strategic planning retreat, 2025 / UCLA LOSH
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Willa Needham2026-07-07 09:53:012026-07-07 09:53:01UCLA LOSH promotes worker health and safety for all
Student presenters and participants gather for a group photo during the 2026 Labor@UCLA Research Showcase / UCLA Labor Studies
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Marcos Ruiz2026-06-05 09:36:352026-06-05 09:39:36Fourth Annual Labor@UCLA Research Showcase: Student Research Projects in Labor Studies
Chun presents findings of Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest / UCLA Labor Studies
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Willa Needham2026-05-26 08:57:252026-05-26 09:37:55“Hope is something we make”: solidarity and care in the South Korean labor movement- May Day celebrations are just around the corner, ARN Stories, Ft. Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, UCLA Labor Center project director, April 22, 2026
- Three unions unite in massive LAUSD strike threat: What’s at stake for workers, families, Los Angeles Times, Ft. Tia Koonse, UCLA Labor Center legal and policy research director, April 9, 2026
- When 1 million marched for immigrant rights in Downtown L.A., KCRW, Ft. Victor Narro, UCLA Labor Center project director and Chris Zepeda-Millán, UCLA Labor Studies professor, March 25, 2026
- Hollywood’s top films were less diverse in 2025: ‘Studios have relapsed into a colorblind complacency’, Los Angeles Times, Ft. Ana-Christina Ramón, UCLA Entertainment and Media Research Initiative Director, March 12, 2026
- Koreatown’s frontline supermarket workers are underpaid and stretched thin, LA Public Press, Mentions UCLA Labor Center study, February 18, 2026
- What Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy looks like in today’s movements, UCLA Newsroom, Ft. Robin D.G. Kelley, UCLA Labor Studies professor, January 17, 2026
- New Trump Policy Could Make Thousands Of Immigrants Vulnerable To Losing Their Jobs, Huffpost, Ft. Victor Narro, UCLA Labor Center project director, October 30, 2025
- A play about the revolt of human workers — not machines — gave us the word ‘robot’, NPR, Ft. Tobias Higbie, UCLA IRLE Director, September 12, 2025
