Entries by webteam
Roles of the Institutions and State Agencies for Promoting and Enforcing Occupational Health and Safety Rules; A Comparison between U.S.A. and Turkey
Zeynep Sisli (IRLE Scholar) My research aims to seek how the institutions founded by universities for training, service and research work and affect the activities of the workplaces and state agencies for good implementation of the rules about occupational health and safety in U.S.A. I will focus on how the participation of workers and employers […]
“We Fight Against the Union” Ethnography of Workers’ Opposition to Employers Protection Unions in Mexico
Paolo Marinaro (IRLE Scholar) The research project I will develop as a Visiting Graduate Researcher at IRLE – UCLA, focuses on the struggle for the collective bargaining right in the automobile industry in Mexico. I am interested in the exploration of working class experience as it relates to the working conditions and union relations among transnational corporations. I focus specifically on […]
Social Inequality and Precarious Work in Korea and Other East Asian Countries
Ju Kong (IRLE Scholar) I have worked on various dimensions of social inequality in Korea and Japan, and I’m particularly interested in precarious work in the labor markets in East Asia. My recent research interest is to address how globalization, specifically with the two financial crises in 1997 and 2008, affects women’s employment in the […]
Quality Employment in Multinational Enterprises in Mexico
Jorge Carrillo (IRLE Scholar) My research here at IRLE will continue with two research projects that had the opportunity to coordinate, both complementary and funded by CONACYT, on economic and social behavior of multinational companies established in Mexico. In order to advance in the analysis of these important companies in the formulation of public policy, […]
Informal and Precarious Work under Social Dynamics of Reproduction, Reconfiguration and Contestation: The Case of Northeast Brazil
Roberto Véras de Oliveira (IRLE Scholar) My research at IRLE aims to provide theoretical and methodological density to the studies that we have been developing at Federal University of Paraiba – Brazil on patterns of brazilian historical and current work, more specifically about the Northeast case, focusing on the social forms of reproduction and reconfiguration […]
Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Organization and Advocacy Potentials in Sudan
Hadelzein Elobeid (IRLE Scholar) Through my research at IRLE, I attempt to benchmark the North American and South African experiences in domestic workers’ advocacy, organization and regulation then come up with adequate tools and/or implications for the Sudanese context.
Standards of Deviation? Collective Representation of Atypical Workers in Europe and the United States
Rebecca Oliver (IRLE Scholar) My research investigates collective bargaining institutions and practices for atypical workers in advanced industrial democracies. What do unions do for the wide a growing body of atypical workers, those outside full-time indeterminate employment relationship? Most centrally, how do outsiders’ employment parameters vary across labor market regimes and what factors influence the […]
Determinants of Returning Intention of Chinese Students Who Study in the United States
Huaying Wei (IRLE Scholar) My research will focus on Chinese students who study in the U.S.A. and conduct an in-depth and comprehensive survey on their characteristics, their returning intention, their obstacles of back to China, their employment intention and their entrepreneurial intention. My research will analyze the dates and try to find the factors which […]
