The UCLA Labor Summer Research Program research team invites you to the Workers and Learners Summer 2021 research findings webinar. Over the past 6-weeks, student researchers collected surveys and interviews about workers and learners' experiences as they prepare to return to school and work in the fall. We will review the research together, discuss key […]
Join us for our Labor Studies Information Session + Student Mixer! Learn about the Labor Studies Major & Minor and meet your faculty, staff, alumni, and fellow students! Date: September 22 from 10am-11am PT RSVP: https://bit.ly/laborstudieswelcome2021 Zoom link will be emailed to you after submitting this registration form.
What has the transition back to campus been like for you? What concerns do you have about the transition away from remote learning? What are you looking forward to this year? Join the labor studies student staff for the first virtual hangout of the year for a conversation surrounding the transition to in person learning. […]
Please join our UCLA Labor Studies community for Oral History for Social Change: Documenting the Lived Experience of Migrants Separated at the U.S./Mexico Border, an online guest speaker event featuring Fanny García, hosted by labor studies lecturer Virginia Espino. Fanny Julissa García is an award winning Honduran-American oral historian contributing work to Central American Studies. […]
Wonder what kind of research projects labor studies students are involved in? We invite you to our Week 6 Virtual Hangout with students who conduct research on the experiences of “workers and learners,” or those who both work and attend college in Los Angeles County. Join us to learn more about the researchers’ findings, have […]
Are you interested in interning or working at the California Labor Commissioner’s Office? Join us for a Career Chat to learn about how you can get involved! Special guests are UCLA alumna and Senior Deputy Labor Commissioner Jocelyn Lopez and Deputy Labor Commissioner Andres Herrera, who will share their experience with internships and tips for […]
Zoom Virtual Event Friday, November 19, 2021 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. PST This roundtable, conducted in English, will feature two journalists, one from a U.S. media outlet, Carrie Kahn, Mexico, Central America & Caribbean Correspondent at NPR, and a Mexican media outlet, David Brooks, U.S. Correspondent at La Jornada in conversation about Andrés Manuel López Obrador's (AMLO's) presidency. […]
What kind of work do Labor Studies students get involved in after graduation? Join the Labor Studies team, Professor Janna Shadduck-Hernandez and UCLA alum Tracie Sánchez for a conversation about working at the U.S Government Accountability Office! Tracie Sánchez is a first-gen UCLA alum and an analyst at the U.S Government Accountability Office (GAO) on […]
Want to learn more about what it's like to teach while in the labor movement? Join the Labor Studies team and Professor Caroline Luce for a conversation about her experiences as a UCLA alum, professor and Communications Committee Chair for UC-AFT! Caroline Luce is a historian whose work sits at the intersection of labor history, […]
Zoom Virtual Event Wednesday, January 26, 2022 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. PST "Reality in Movement" explores Mexican poet Octavio Paz, not only biographically or as an intellectual, but through various conversations he had, ranging from feminism to psychoanalysis, taking into account the time in which he lived. "Reality in Movement" explora al poeta Mexicano […]
