
The Labor Studies (LBR STD) interdepartmental program offers UCLA undergraduates an opportunity to learn about the workplace and its impact on communities.
New research initiative explores equity and access issues affecting entertainment industry workers and tracks the viewing habits of increasingly diverse audiences.
Black Workers in Los Angeles County
UCLA Labor Center report finds Los Angeles in the throes of a Black jobs crisis
The Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) is a multidisciplinary research center dedicated to research, teaching, and service on labor and employment issues. Through the work of its units – Labor Studies, UCLA Labor Center, Labor Occupational Safety and Health program, and Human Resources Roundtable – the Institute forms wide-ranging research agendas that carry UCLA into the Los Angeles community and beyond.



2022
- ‘Health and Safety Are at Risk’: Only 1 California Safety Inspector Is Bilingual in Chinese or Vietnamese, KQED, November 21, 2022
- Young People Are Feeding the Effort to Unionize Food Service Workers, Civil Eats, November 21, 2022
- Coffee, Books & School: Here’s what you need to know about workers striking across the US, Reckon, November 18, 2022
2021
- Support for labor unions highest in 55 years, California School Employees Association, December 30, 2021
- Garment Workers Organize to End Wage Theft, Yes! Magazine, December 28, 2021
- Amazon settles with NLRB to give workers power to organize, AP News, December 23, 2021
