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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Troop Movements: Labor\, Race\, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II-- Tejasvi Nagaraja in conversation with Robin D.G. Kelley
DESCRIPTION:Date and Time: October 28\, 2026\, 4 pm \nLocation: Bunche Hall 6275 \nJoin the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE)\, UCLA Department of History and UCLA Department of Labor Studies for a book talk with author Tejasvi Nagaraja and Robin D.G. Kelley\, professor of history and labor studies. Nagaraja will present his book\, Troop Movements\, which explores how mass mobilization for World War II catalyzed the political movements that defined the postwar period\, linking racial\, economic and international issues. \n\nSpeakers:\nTejasvi Nagaraja: Tejasvi Nagaraja is Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University’s ILR School. He received his Ph.D. from New York University\, and has held fellowships at Harvard University\, the New School and the New York Historical Society. His writing has been published in the journal American Historical Review. \nRobin D.G. Kelley: Robin D. G. Kelley is a Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA.  Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, he is the recipient of many awards and fellowships\, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Freedom Scholar Award.  His books include the prize-winning Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Free Press\, 2009); Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Beacon Press\, 2002\, new ed. 2022); Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (University of North Carolina Press\, 1990\, new ed. 2015); Race Rebels: Culture\, Politics\, and the Black Working Class (Free Press\, 1994); Three Strikes: The Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century (Beacon Press\, 2001); Into the Fire: African Americans Since 1970  (New York: Oxford University Press\, 1996). \n  \n 
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/troop-movements/
LOCATION:History Conference Room\, 6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Race\, Labor\, and Jewish Radicalism in Los Angeles-- Caroline Luce
DESCRIPTION:Date & Time: November 10\, 2026\, 4 pm \nLocation: Royce Hall 306 \nYiddish in the Land of Sunshine examines how a cohort of young Jewish radicals from Eastern Europe helped reshape multiracial left-wing activism in Southern California. It traces their migration from the Russian Empire to Los Angeles and their involvement in labor and left-wing movements. Focusing especially on Boyle Heights\, the book explores how the neighborhood’s diverse communities shaped Yiddish public culture and Jewish political organizing. It highlights the relationships\, collaborations\, and tensions that emerged as Jewish radicals built multiracial coalitions with Mexican\, Asian\, and African American neighbors. Drawing on previously untranslated Yiddish sources\, the book challenges traditional Jewish immigration narratives centered on the Northeast and places Jewish workers in the American West at the center of Jewish and American history. Ultimately\, it demonstrates how Eastern European Jewish radicals and trade unionists contributed to Los Angeles through innovative organizing and helped shape the city’s evolving racial and political landscape. \nSpeakers:\nCaroline Luce: Caroline Luce is Project Director with the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and formerly Chief Curator of Mapping Jewish Los Angeles\, a project of the UCLA Leve Center for Jewish Studies. \nModerator: Todd Presner (UCLA) \nCosponsored by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor & Employment\, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Michael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies\, and the UCLA Department of History \nRSVP
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/land-of-sunshine/
LOCATION:306 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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SUMMARY:UCLA Strategic Campaigns Bootcamp
DESCRIPTION:  \nDate & Time: March 15-19\, 2027; 9:00 am – 6:00 pm daily \nLocation: UCLA Rev. James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center\, Los Angeles\, CA \n\n\n\nJoin the UCLA Strategic Research Lab for its newest training program for social movement researchers and strategic campaigners—the Strategic Campaigns Bootcamp. In this week-long program\, activists in labor\, climate justice\, finance and other areas will learn top approaches to design\, plan\, execute and win strategic campaigns. \nApplicants must come in groups of at least two people working on a real strategic campaign to workshop throughout the week in a series of interactive sessions with expert campaigners working within the labor movement. Participants will complete the workshop with a set of concrete actions to move their campaign forward. \nIn this five-day intensive training\, participants will collaborate to plan and develop a real strategic campaign through a variety of workshops. \nKey discussion topics:\n\nBuilding a ground campaign\nConducting a power analysis\nDeveloping strategy and planning\nExecuting escalation tactics\nCommunicating about strategic campaigns\nBuilding internal organizational consensus on strategy\nEvaluating campaign progress\n\nWho should apply:\n\nUnion or labor movement teams of at least two and no more than five people from a single organization or coalition working on a specific and identifiable campaign\nClimate\, finance or social justice teams of at least two and no more than five people from a single organization or coalition working on a specific and identifiable campaign\nThe campaign can be at any stage—exploration\, planning or mid-campaign\n\nDetails:\n\nDates: March 15-19\, 2027\nTime: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm daily\nLocation: UCLA Rev. James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center\, Los Angeles\, CA\nCost: $625 per participant\n\n\nAPPLY HERE\n\n\n\nInstructors\nJustin McBride: Justin McBride is the Program Director of the UCLA Strategic Research Lab and a former union organizer. During his fifteen years in the labor movement with UNITE\, SEIU and the AFL-CIO\, McBride worked on multiple strategic campaigns\, including in the janitorial\, carwash and construction industries. These included campaigns around land development\, secondary targets\, customer outreach and policy initiatives designed to support organizing drives. \nMcBride is the co-organizer of the UCLA Strategic Labor Research Conference\, and formerly co-facilitated the UC Berkeley Labor Center Strategic Campaigns Workshop. \nRosemarie Molina: Rosemarie Molina is a labor organizer\, strategist and educator with more than 20 years of experience building worker power. As Organizing Director at the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor\, she co-founded an Organizing Institute that trained thousands of union members in organizing and membership growth. Throughout her career\, Molina has led strategic campaigns to raise the minimum wage\, strengthen protections against wage theft and address unsafe working conditions for workers across Los Angeles and California. Her work has included worker and community organizing\, political and electoral campaigns\, coalition building\, leadership development and building the institutions needed to sustain long-term worker power. \nMolina teaches Labor Studies at UCLA and CSUDH. She also serves on the Board of the Los Angeles Black Worker Center and the CLEAN Carwash Worker Center. She is the founder of Movement Builders Collective\, where she works with unions and worker organizations to strengthen organizing\, strategy\, leadership and organizational capacity. \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout The UCLA Strategic Research Lab:\nThe UCLA Strategic Research Lab is a capacity-building training hub and network for researchers from labor and community-based organizations. As a research unit of a public university\, the SRL seeks to train strategic researchers for the common good. Besides the Coding Camp for Union Research\, the Strategic Research Lab also holds its annual Strategic Labor Research Conference\, one of the largest annual convenings of labor and movement researchers in the nation. \nSign up for email updates for other Strategic Research Lab events and trainings here. 
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/ucla-strategic-campaigns-bootcamp/
LOCATION:UCLA James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center\, 675 S. Park View Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90057
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SUMMARY:UCLA Coding Bootcamp for Union Research
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Strategic Research Lab will hold a five-day intensive training in using the power of Python coding to simplify tasks for union research. The camp will be held in the summer of 2027\, and applications will open in late February.  \nThe Coding Bootcamp is an intense and challenging experience! Come ready to jump feet first into a weeklong journey towards simplifying your work\, discovering new data sources\, and automating your most routine research tasks! \nKey Training Topics:\n\nPython fundamentals\nDynamically moving and combining multiple files\nFuzzy matching different data sets\nUse APIs to bulk download data\, such as open government data\nScraping websites to collect data\, such as:\n\nproperty listings\,\ncompany information\,\ngovernment data\,\npdfs\, and\ndata sets that cannot be downloaded directly\n\n\nCleaning\, merging\, and deduplicating data  such as worker lists\, property records\, or company information\nUsing text patterns to extract data\n\nWho should apply \nThis course is designed for union or movement researchers that often encounter large amounts of data in the course of their work. The skills taught in this course will allow students to collect\, process\, and analyze data more efficiently and accurately. \nThis course does not cover topics such as databases (i.e. SQL)\, advanced data analysis (i.e. statistics and data modeling)\, machine learning\, or extracting text from PDFs–these are advanced topics that cannot be covered in the time we have\, but students will have a solid Python foundation and can work on self-teaching these topics after the course. \nPrior coding experience is not required to attend this course. However\, all accepted students must participate in a short\, self-paced python pre-course. We will also cover Python fundamentals together in class.  \n\nAdvice From the 2025 Coding Bootcamp Cohort:\n“You should definitely attend this program if you’re thinking about it! This program really helps make coding feel so much more accessible no matter how much experience you have coming in. I have learned so many different ways to use coding to make my work so much more efficient and comprehensive.” \n“It is like drinking out of a firehouse. That’s just the way this sort of thing works. Keeping a good attitude and accepting that you will be challenged is extremely crucial to being successful.” \n“I have learned so much and feel so much more capable in the work I do.” \n\nEvent Details:\n\nDates: TBA – Summer 2027\nTime: Monday-Friday\, 8am-6pm\nLocation: UCLA James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center\, Los Angeles\nCost: $850 (includes training materials & refreshments)\nMeals: Not included\, but local dining options are available\n\n\nThe Instructor: Mellissa Chang\n \nMellissa Chang (she/hers) is freelance campaign researcher and data engineer. She conducts data-informed campaign research and builds data tools for labor unions and non-profits. Prior to this\, she was a research coordinator at the Private Equity Stakeholder Project\, where she tracked and analyzed eviction data and acquisitions to support tenant organizing campaigns around the country. During the pandemic\, she closely tracked covid relief spending\, identifying parent recipients and matching recipients to a database of federal regulatory violations\, earning her the DC Femme Tech Award in 2021. Before entering the non-profit sphere\, she worked as an airports campaign researcher at 32BJ. Mellissa holds a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. In her spare time\, she builds automated mass transit systems in Minecraft. \n  \nApplication details \nThis application includes a short diagnostic test. The results of this test are only used to help design the course and are NOT factored into your application assessment. \nThis course is rigorous and fast-paced. By applying to this course\, you pledge to remain focused and engaged\, and to ask for help when needed. \n\nEmail srl@irle.ucla.edu for more information or if you have any questions. \n\nAbout The UCLA Strategic Research Lab:\nThe UCLA Strategic Research Lab is a capacity-building training hub and network for researchers from labor and community-based organizations. As a research unit of a public university\, the SRL seeks to train strategic researchers for the common good. Besides the Coding Camp for Union Research\, the Strategic Research Lab also holds its annual Strategic Labor Research Conference\, one of the largest annual convenings of labor and movement researchers in the nation.  \nSign up for email updates for other Strategic Research Lab events and trainings here.  \n 
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/ucla-coding-camp-for-union-research/
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