The UCLA Institute for Research and Employment presents it’s 2014 conference on Race, Labor, & the Law. In coordination with the Critical Race Studies Program at the UCLA School of Law, the conference will take place at UCLA on Friday and Saturday, February 28 and March 1, 2014.
Join leading legal scholars, social scientists, humanists and practitioners for a reframing of the relationship between race, gender, class and labor in the United States. Through interdisciplinary approaches to the subject, panelists will examine these interlocking forms of oppression; consider how the interplay between them shapes labor markets, labor hierarchies and labor and employment law; and investigate the repressive and insurgent forces involved. Panels will discuss U.S. labor, race, gender and class matters in relation to the transformation of the labor movement; immigration; the rights of indigenous peoples in the U.S.; worker voice and labor speech; prison labor and employment after re-entry; intimate labor; and women in low wage work and organizing.