Please join us for a celebration featuring Labor Studies students reading their original work, including poetry, song, memoir, fiction, and research! This event is part of LBRSTD 188-4, Writing Workshop for Labor Studies, a creative writing class for Labor Studies majors, Labor Studies minors, and other interested students. Special Guest: Author Saba Waheed, Research Director, […]
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month and in partnership with UCLA Labor Studies, enjoy a screening of the award-winning documentary "Backstreet to the American Dream," directed and written by Patricia Nazario '91, with executive producer/Medal of Freedom recipient Dolores Huerta. This modern-day look at the classic American Dream is done through the quintessential 21st Century entrepreneurial […]
Join Kent Wong, Director of the UCLA Labor Center, in conversation with Los Angeles labor community organizers who led the fight for workers this summer. Speakers will include strike captains from UNITE-HERE, SAG-AFTRA, WGA, and SEIU 721, who will discuss their experiences on the picket line. Learn how a #HotLaborSummer can transform the American labor […]
Join us on Tuesday, November 7th from 2-3 pm for a coffee chat with leaders from the Labor Studies Student Union (LSSU). This will be a space to not only learn more about the LSSU, what it stands for, why it was created, and what the future of this union is, but also a space […]
UCLA Labor Studies and @ILWU Local 13 invite students to a free worker-centered tour of the Port of Los Angeles. You will have the opportunity to take a boat tour of the Port, view memorials to workers on the waterfront, visit a union hall, and learn about the role of unions in the logistics industry. […]
Join us on Tuesday, November 21st from 2-3 pm in Kaplan A26 for a coffee chat with activist, Labor Center project director, and Labor Studies Professor, Victor Narro Professor Victor Narro is an experienced activist, with thirty years as a leader in the immigrant and labor rights movements. Additionally, he has worked as a labor/immigration […]
Heather Berg writes about work, sex, and social struggle. Her 2021 book, Porn Work, explores workers’ creative strategies for surviving (and sometimes thriving) in an industry in crisis. Winner of the Working-Class Studies Association’s C.L.R. James “best book” award, it locates porn workers as experts on the politics of precarity. Her current book project, Lumpen […]
Join us on Wednesday, February 28th between 12 pm to 1 pm for a coffee chat with members of the #Opportunity4All campaign! This is a casual event for Labor Studies students to learn about ways to support undocumented students and find ways to become involved. Date: Wednesday, February 28th Time: 12pm - 1pm Location: Bunche […]
Join us for our in-person Labor Studies Open House! Learn about the Labor Studies Major and Minor and meet your faculty, staff, alumni and fellow students! Date: Tuesday, October 8th Time: 12:30pm - 2pm Location: Bruin Reception Room (Ackerman Second Floor) RSVP deadline: October 1st, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Event Details: Open to current […]
Join us for a Labor Studies Book Talk with Cedric de Leon, professor of Sociology and Labor Studies at UMass Amherst, as he discusses his latest book, Freedom Train:Black Politics & the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity. This special event is in collaboration with the UCLA History Department and Sociology Department. Drawing on a rich […]
