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SUMMARY:Community Bank and Banking Structure Effects on Local Economies\, Unemployment and Recovery: An Economic Sociology Perspective
DESCRIPTION:With good reason\, scholars and policy makers have focused on the profound industry-wide transformations American banking and finance experienced over the last three decades\, emphasizing deregulation\, concentration within a handful of giant global banking corporations\, their abandonment of the “real economy” for market-based banking grounded in securitization and derivative transactions\, and the devastating effects these changes have had on the broader economy.  Less clear is the extent to which decentralized systems of smaller\, locally owned and operating community banks and credit unions withstood transformations in American finance\, providing local economies with alternatives to banking corporations like Citigroup or JP Morgan Chase.  Less clear also are whether and how localism\, organizational diversity and the persistence of alternatives to “too-big-too-fail” institutions in local economies may have helped them weather the recent storm of a combined financial and economic crisis\, whether by sustaining small business\, fostering new enterprise formation or dampening employment shocks.  Analyzing banking organization and markets at the county and metropolitan area levels\, this research documents substantial variation in banking structure across local economies in the US up to and including the current period\, confounding a simple narrative of dominance\, displacement and homogenization under the aegis of too-big-to-fail banking corporations.  It also presents preliminary analyses of whether and how differences in banking structure and the persistence of “Jeffersonian” alternatives to too-big-to-fail bank corporations in local economies affected levels and changes there in the relative size of the small business sector\, new establishment formation and unemployment during and “after” the great recession.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/community-bank-and-banking-structure-effects-on-local-economies-unemployment-and-recovery-an-economic-sociology-perspective/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160512T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160512T133000
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SUMMARY:Racializing Normative Markets: Whiteness\, Masculinity\, and the "Efficiency" of Networks
DESCRIPTION:While critical scholarship has made important contributions to the understandings of markets and difference\, many of these approaches have focused on how dominant markets have actively depended upon\, as well as excluded groups based on\, hierarchies of raced\, gendered\, classed\, sexualized\, and national differences. That we better understand how capitalism depended on enslavement\, how US real estate markets segregated and excluded African Americans\, and how productive labor cannot be jettisoned from reproductive labor are due to this crucial research. However\, we need to go further. Even as dominant\, capitalist markets are depicted as exclusionary and exploitative of differences\, they themselves are often held stable\, and not directly analyzed as composed of particular bodies\, assumptions\, actions\, and values. This presentation\, inspired by critical race theory\, cultural histories of risk and the construction of the risk-bearing individual\, as well as ethnographic accounts of financial markets\, examines both the underbelly of what makes financial markets possible as well as the whiteness and classed masculinity of financial markets themselves. I will explore how the very underpinnings of what makes markets and market exchange possible are arrangements of exchangeability\, commensurability\, and liquidity made possible\, in part\, through the instruments and assumptions of racial fraternity and exclusion.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/racializing-normative-markets-whiteness-masculinity-and-the-efficiency-of-networks/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160519T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160519T180000
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SUMMARY:Black Feminism\, The Carceral State\, and Abolition
DESCRIPTION:Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials\, Sarah Haley’s No Mercy Here: Gender\, Punishment\, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity illuminates black women’s experiences of imprisonment in the South to uncover how gendered regimes of incarceration were crucial to the making of Jim Crow modernity. No Mercy Here examines the brutalization of imprisoned women in local\, county\, and state convict labor systems\, while also situating them within the black radical tradition by illuminating practices of resistance\, refusal\, and sabotage that challenged ideologies of racial capitalism and patriarchy\, offering alternative conceptions of social and political life and envisioning a world beyond prisons.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/black-feminism-the-carceral-state-and-abolition/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160525T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160525T140000
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SUMMARY:Does Innovation Go with Social Inclusion?  Multinational Corporation in Mexico
DESCRIPTION:Recent research has revealed that contrary to the expectations generated by globalization\, there is no automatic correlation linking world trade expansion and multinational companies\, product innovation\, and more generally\, economic progress (measured in terms of growth) with social progress. On the contrary\, there is evidence showing that even when there has been a significant job transfer to developing countries\, there has been deterioration in its quality.\nThis research stems from the need to understand and document the variety of paths experienced when adapting working relations to the requirements arising from the economic innovation processes in the case of Mexico\, considering there is a wide selection of multinational companies from various sectors installed in the country. Therefore\, this paper aims to identify the relationship between innovation and social-labor progress\, through the analysis multinational firms established in Mexico. \nIt is worth mentioning that this paper is derived from an study in nine countries coordinated by the Intrepid\, an academic international network. In Mexico’s case\, the survey represents 922 multinational firms in the manufacturing and service sectors. The purpose of the survey was to determine their performance in terms of innovation\, employment practices and outsourcing. After the analysis of the data\, a typology of innovation-social inclusion was designed\, and based on these results\, a second stage of the study was conducted through qualitative analysis with 16 companies from different productive sectors. Companies from different country of origin were taken into account\, including Americans\, Europeans\, Chinese and Mexicans. \nAll selected companies have significant national and international economic relevance\, and all of them follow practices of innovation. The research question in this case was whether innovation is associated with socio-labor progress in multinational companies. \nThe main results confirm the general perception of literature on the topic: innovation giving economic and competitive results to multinational companies is not associated to the results of social-labor progress\, and the overall balance of globalization is not the reduction of inequality. In most companies\, innovations (product and process) were observed and changes in the business model were also perceived; however\, these improvements did not go alongside the socio-labor progress. Only a small proportion of companies follow the “high road”. Finally\, this paper offers some results on the associated variables\, which allow observing the positive articulation between innovation and social-labor progress.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/does-innovation-go-with-social-inclusion-multinational-corporation-in-mexico/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160819T081500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160819T203000
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SUMMARY:Precarious Work: Domination and Resistance in the US\, China\, and the World
DESCRIPTION:Today precarious work presents perhaps the greatest global challenge to worker well-being\, and has become a major rallying point for worker mobilization around the world.  This conference focuses on analyzing the growth of precarious employment and informal labor\, its consequences for workers and their families\, the challenges it poses to worker organizing and collective mobilization\, and how workers and other social actors are responding to precariousness. We seek to understand the patterns of social and economic domination of labor shaped by the state\, capital\, gender\, class\, age\, ethnicity\, skills\, and citizenship\, and examine the manifestations of labor resistance and acquiescence in their specific contexts.\nThe conference is initiated by the American Sociological Association (ASA)’s Labor and Labor Movements Section\, the International Sociological Association (ISA)’s Research Committee on Labor Movements (RC44)\, and the Chinese Sociological Association’s China Association of Work and Labor (CAWL). It builds in part on an ongoing scholarly exchange between the ASA Labor Section and the CAWL. The conference program will focus on the United States and China\, but will include a range of global cases and perspectives. Interdisciplinary approaches and innovative research methods are welcomed.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/precarious-work-domination-and-resistance-in-the-us-china-and-the-world/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161016T123000
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SUMMARY:IRLE Colloquia Series — Book Talk: Sunshine Was Never Enough: Los Angeles Workers\, 1880-2010
DESCRIPTION:Delving beneath Southern California’s popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease\, this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labor of Los Angeles’s large working class. In a sweeping narrative that takes into account more than a century of labor history\, John H. M. Laslett acknowledges the advantages Southern California’s climate\, open spaces\, and bucolic character offered to generations of newcomers. At the same time\, he demonstrates that—in terms of wages\, hours\, and conditions of work—L.A. differed very little from America’s other industrial cities. Both fast-paced and sophisticated\, Sunshine Was Never Enough shows how labor in all its guises—blue and white collar\, industrial\, agricultural\, and high tech—shaped the neighborhoods\, economic policies\, racial attitudes\, and class perceptions of the City of Angels.\nLaslett explains how\, until the 1930s\, many of L.A.’s workers were under the thumb of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association. This conservative organization kept wages low\, suppressed trade unions\, and made L.A. into the open shop capital of America. By contrast now\, at a time when the AFL-CIO is at its lowest ebb—a young generation of Mexican and African American organizers has infused the L.A. movement with renewed strength. These stories of the men and women who pumped oil\, loaded ships in San Pedro harbor\, built movie sets\, assembled aircraft\, and in more recent times cleaned hotels and washed cars is a little-known but vital part of Los Angeles history.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/irle-colloquia-series-book-talk-sunshine-was-never-enough-los-angeles-workers-1880-2010/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161023T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161023T140000
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CREATED:20170302T224706Z
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UID:1490-1477225800-1477231200@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:IRLE Colloquia Series — The Crisis of Public Sector Unionism
DESCRIPTION:Unionism and collective bargaining among U.S. state and local government employees are being widely debated\, and some of these governments have sharply reduced or eliminated public employee unionism and bargaining rights. Such actions are based on a belief that fiscal adversity facing state and local governments stems mainly from the over-compensation of public employees that has ostensibly resulted from unionism\, bargaining and supportive legislation enacted decades earlier. These changes\, however\, are being made with little or no consideration of empirical evidence about public-private sector pay and benefit relationships\, the effects of unions on state and local government employee pay\, the effectiveness of employment dispute resolution procedures\, including arbitration\, and the ability of state and local government labor and management to effectively combat fiscal adversity and enhance organizational performance. In this presentation\, Professor Lewin will provide new evidence showing that\, on balance\, state and local government employees are undercompensated relative to their private sector counterparts\, and that the effects of unions on compensation are considerably smaller in state and local government than in the private sector. Further\, available evidence indicates that state and local government employment dispute resolution procedures work reasonably well based on process and outcome assessments\, and that labor and management in these governments can use mutual gains negotiations to benefit not just themselves but citizens and communities more broadly. Finally\, he will propose a research agenda for a new generation of scholars so that they\, like their predecessors\, can influence policy makers in making high stakes decisions about state and local government unionism and collective bargaining.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/irle-colloquia-series-the-crisis-of-public-sector-unionism/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161118T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161118T140000
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CREATED:20170302T225914Z
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SUMMARY:Transnational Labor Alliances: Power\, Coordination\, and Why Some Succeed
DESCRIPTION:Labor activists are increasingly cooperating across national borders in campaigns aimed at convincing transnational corporations to improve wages\, working conditions\, and labor rights. Yet to date there are no systematic studies of why some transnational labor alliances succeed while others do not. This book thus develops a causal theory of success and failure in transnational labor alliances. I hypothesize that transnational labor alliances succeed only when they exercise a type of power that threatens a corporation’s core\, material interests. Moreover\, workers must coordinate both within their own organizations and across national borders in order to exercise power on the international scale. Using both cross-case and within-case methods of comparative analysis\, I test this hypothesis through a matched-pair analysis of six recent transnational campaigns featuring alliances spearheaded by workers from Australia\, Cambodia\, Indonesia\, the United Kingdom\, and the United States. These campaigns occurred in the shipping\, retail\, security services\, and luxury hotel industries between 1995 and 2010. The data\, which include original interviews conducted over three years of fieldwork\, provide evidence that intra-union coordination\, inter-union coordination\, and a context-appropriate power strategy are all necessary conditions for transnational labor alliances to succeed.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/transnational-labor-alliances-power-coordination-succeed/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170411T173000
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SUMMARY:UCLA’s Role in Workers’ Lives Today
DESCRIPTION:  \nNow more than ever\, in this divided political era\, higher education institutions like UCLA have an important role to play in upholding workers’ rights. Universities are where rigorous data-driven research happens on pressing economic\, workplace\, and political issues. They are where students develop research and critical thinking skills and engage directly in the cities where they live. \nFor over 70 years\, the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment has conducted timely and impactful research on labor markets and how work impacts workers and their families. As home to the UCLA Labor Center\, our research on immigrants\, young people\, and low-wage workers has driven policy change\, including minimum wage\, paid sick leave\, and wage theft.  Through the UCLA Labor Minor\, every year we place over 300 students into internships in social justice and governmental organizations across the country.  The Institute’s Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program (LOSH) has trained thousands of workers on health and safety measures that are sometimes the difference between life and death. And\, the Human Resources Roundtable (HARRT) works with companies to recruit and retain diverse\, skilled workforces nationwide. \nCome celebrate with us! \nLet’s vision UCLA’s work on behalf of working people and their families today and beyond. \nSpeakers:\nMaria Elena Durazo\nVice-Chair\, Democratic National Committee\nGeneral Vice President for Immigration\, Civil Rights\, and Diversity\, UNITE HERE \nRobin D.G. Kelley\nProfessor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History\, UCLA \nAbel Valenzuela\nDirector\, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment \n \nUCLA Meyer & Renee Luskin Conference Center\n425 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095\nSelf-pay parking available in Structure 8
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/uclas-role-workers-lives-today/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170522T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170522T133000
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CREATED:20170518T162630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170518T162630Z
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SUMMARY:Building International Union Campaigns: McDonald's and the 'Fight for 15'
DESCRIPTION:Professor Tony Royle\, University of York \nWhat are the challenges associated with building effective global union campaigns? One way to answer this question is to examine the development of the ‘Fight for 15’ campaign. The campaign\, which began in 2012 in New York\, went global in 2014. It involved low-paid workers around the world.  Professor Royle will discuss why the McDonald’s Corporation was chosen as the key target of the campaign and the challenges associated with organizing workers in the international fast-food industry.  ‘Fight for 15’ has been strongly driven by SEIU\, the labor union.  Aspects of the international campaign reflect SEIU’s agenda and its willingness to commit considerable resources.  SEIU has also tried to link the international campaign to workforce issues in different nations. \n  \nProfessor Tony Royle is a professor at the University of York and previously held posts at the University of Bradford\, UK; the University of Galway (NUIG)\, Ireland; and Nottingham Business School\, UK. Tony is the author of Working for McDonald’s in Europe and co-author and co-editor of Labour Relations in the Global Fast-Food Industry. He has been an advisor for the European Parliament\, the International Labour Organization and various national unions His work is used as a resource for teaching in many universities around the world. Some of it has been published in German\, Italian and Spanish.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/building-international-union-campaigns-mcdonalds-fight-15/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170728
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170729
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CREATED:20170726T202854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170727T220612Z
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SUMMARY:Test Divisional Event
DESCRIPTION:Testing\, please disregard.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/test-divisional-event/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T180000
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CREATED:20171101T222542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T204019Z
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SUMMARY:Free Screening of Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights
DESCRIPTION:Union Time tells the story of one of the greatest union victory of the 21st century—the fight to organize Smithfield Foods’ pork processing plant in Tar Heel\, North Carolina. From 1993 to 2008\, workers struggled against dangerous working conditions\, intimidation\, and low pay. They were organized by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union\, whose Justice@Smithfield campaign brought national attention to the campaign. The victory led to the formation of UFCW Local 1208 and fair working conditions for 5\,000 workers.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/free-screening-union-time-fighting-workers-rights/
LOCATION:UCLA Public Affairs 2243
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171121T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171121T150000
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CREATED:20171101T224312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171101T224556Z
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SUMMARY:Made in L.A. - Documentary Screening and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:MADE IN LA is an Emmy award-winning feature documentary that follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from the clothing retailer\, Forever 21. In intimate observational style\, MADE IN LA reveals the impact of the struggle on each woman’s life as they are gradually transformed by the experience. Compelling\, humorous and deeply human\, MADE IN LA is a story about immigration\, the power of unity\, and the courage it takes to find your own voice. \nAfter the screening there will be a Q&A with organizers from the Garment Worker Center. More guests TBA!
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/made-l-documentary-screening-qa/
LOCATION:UCLA Bunche Hall 3211
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180522T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180522T171500
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CREATED:20180529T221411Z
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SUMMARY:Tam Tran Goes to Washington
DESCRIPTION:Tam Tran was a filmmaker and leader of IDEAS at UCLA. She and her best friend\, Cinthya Felix\, graduated from UCLA and were enrolled in graduate school at Brown and Columbia Universities. They were both nationally known leaders of the immigrant youth movement. Tam and Cinthya were tragically killed in a car crash in May of 2010.\n\nThis is a special 40-minute play that was produced by the East West Players\, the renowned Asian American Theater company of Los Angeles. Given the precarious status of hundreds of thousands of immigrant youth who are currently being threatened with deportation by the current administration\, this play is a timely educational resource for teachers and students to address the issue of immigration and immigrant rights.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/tam-tran-goes-to-washington/
LOCATION:UCLA De Neve Auditorium\, 351 Charles E. Young Drive\, West\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155507
CREATED:20180529T215614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180529T223646Z
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SUMMARY:Gig Economy Event
DESCRIPTION:In an expansive city with limited public transit\, the arrival of companies like Uber and Lyft has transformed daily life in LA and raised important questions about job quality\, employment law\, and creating an economy that works for everybody. Come hear drivers\, organizers\, industry experts and scholars share their perspectives on the future of ride-hailing and worker organizing in Los Angeles during the age of the gig economy.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/gig-economy-event/
LOCATION:UCLA Public Affairs 2243
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181010T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181010T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155507
CREATED:20181010T172639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181019T210646Z
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SUMMARY:Can Immigrant Students Still Feel Safe at School in the Age of Trump
DESCRIPTION:How are public schools and teachers being affected by the Trump administration’s immigration policies? What can public schools do to protect their students? What can we do to ensure that our schools are safe spaces for all students? \nThis interdisciplinary panel will address such questions by drawing on two national studies by Professors Patricia Gándara and John Rogers and they will be joined by Michael Newman\, California Department of Justice\, Civil Rights Enforcement Section\, and Thomas Saenz\, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/can-immigrant-students-still-feel-safe-at-school-in-the-age-of-trump/
LOCATION:UCLA School of Law Rm. 1357
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155507
CREATED:20181010T215359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181019T205919Z
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SUMMARY:Hour Crisis: Scheduling & Retail Worker Organizing in Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:Los Angeles retail workers struggle with unreliable hours and\nunpredictable schedules that undercut their incomes and chances of\nliving full and healthy lives. Recently\, workers have come together to\ndemand a fair workweek and pass local and state ordinances for\nadvanced schedule notice and guaranteed hours. \nCome hear organizers\, industry experts\, and academics share their\nperspectives on historic campaigns\, current policy initiatives\, and\nresearch conducted by the UCLA Labor Center and LAANE. \nSPECIAL GUEST: \nLane Windham\, Associate Director\, Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for\nLabor and the Working Poor & Author of ‘Knocking on Labor’s Door’ \nPANELISTS: \nJanna Shadduck-Hernández\, Project Director\, UCLA Labor Center\nPreeti Sharma\, PhD Candidate\, UCLA Gender Studies & Researcher\, UCLA Labor Center\nNelson Motto\, Director\, Fair Workweek Los Angeles Coalition \nMODERATOR: \nToby Higbie\, Professor\, UCLA Department of History
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/hour-crisis-scheduling-retail-worker-organizing-in-los-angeles/
LOCATION:UCLA Bunche Hall 6275
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155507
CREATED:20181010T203149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181019T210349Z
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SUMMARY:Fighting for Immigrants: Forum with DACA  Litigators\, Featuring MALDEF's Thomas Saenz
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nACIP is sponsoring an event on Thursday\, October 25 in partnership with USP\, UC Immigrant Legal Services\, the Public Interest Law Program and the Critical Race Studies Program at the law school.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/fighting-for-immigrants-forum-with-daca-litigators-featuring-maldefs-thomas-saenz/
LOCATION:UCLA School of Law Rm. 1357
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181120T183000
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SUMMARY:10 Questions: What is Work?  Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:You’re Cordially Invited!\nGiving community members a special opportunity to experience the conversations that drive innovation at the university\, this fall the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture presents “10 Questions\,” a hybrid academic course and public event series that brings together leading minds from across the university to discuss ten fundamental questions. \nThis week\, Willem Henri Lucas\, Catherine Opie\, Alfred Osborne\, and Abel Valenzuela\, will join Brett Steele\, dean of the UCLA School of the Arts & Architecture to explore the question\, “What is Work?” \nAbel Valenzuela\, labor and immigration expert Professor\, Department of Chicana/o Studies\nProfessor\, Department of Urban Planning\nDirector\, UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/10-questions-what-is-work-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:UCLA Kaufman Hall\, 200\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181128T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181128T140000
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SUMMARY:Civil Rights Leader Reverend James Lawson Jr. honored with UCLA Medal
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the 60-year legacy of non-violence and activism by Reverend James Lawson Jr. with the conferral of the UCLA Medal by Chancellor Gene Block. \nRev. Lawson Jr. is known for his work in the civil rights movement along with his close friend and colleague\, Martin Luther King Jr. He helped lead the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike and the Nashville sit-in movement and introduced the philosophy of nonviolent activism to many civil rights leaders. \nIn Los Angeles\, Rev. Lawson Jr. was very involved in social justice movements. He became the founder of CLUE\, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice\, that brought together clergy and lay leaders with laborers\, low-income families\, and immigrants to fight for a just economy. His efforts influenced many religious leaders to involve themselves in social and economic activism throughout Los Angeles. The conferral of the UCLA Medal to Rev. Lawson Jr. is to celebrate his contributions to non-violence and social change. \nThe event will take place on Wednesday\, November 28\, 2018\, at 2:00 p.m. at the UCLA Carnesale Commons. \nPlease RSVP here to confirm your attendance: Reverend Lawson UCLA Medal Registration
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/civil-rights-leader-reverend-james-lawson-jr-honored-with-ucla-medal/
LOCATION:UCLA Carnesale Commons\, 251 Charles E Young Drive West\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Celebration
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190110T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155507
CREATED:20190107T221826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T223708Z
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SUMMARY:Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDockworkers have power. Often missed in commentary on today’s globalizing economy\, workers in the world’s ports can harness their role\, at a strategic choke point\, to promote their labor rights and social justice causes. Peter Cole brings such overlooked experiences to light in an eye-opening comparative study of Durban\, South Africa\, and the San Francisco Bay Area\, California. Path breaking research reveals how unions affected lasting change in some of the most far-reaching struggles of modern times.First\, dockworkers in each city drew on longstanding radical traditions to promote racial equality. Second\, they persevered when a new technology—container ships—sent a shockwave of layoffs through the industry. Finally\, their commitment to black internationalism and leftist politics sparked transnational work stoppages to protest apartheid and authoritarianism. \nRSVP: lindsayking@ucla.edu\nParking Information: Here\n 
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/dockworker-power-race-and-activism-in-durban-and-the-san-francisco-bay-area/
LOCATION:UCLA Bunche Hall 6339\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190207T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190208T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155507
CREATED:20190114T223943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190204T225340Z
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SUMMARY:2019 Diversity in Higher Education Research Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Since 2014\, three institutions of higher learning\, one each from the United States (UCLA)\, South Africa (University of the Free State) and the Netherlands (Vrije Universiteit) have convened yearly to exchange\, engage and research diversity\, inclusivity\, equity and other cleavages at the university and its production of an educated body. Our conference and collaboration explores\, engages and aims to offer solutions to improve research\, teaching\, and service outcomes in higher education to include social justice and equity as core pillars of higher education. \nThe theme of this year’s conference is Spatial\, Intersectional and Student Engagement in an Era of Hate. This conference aims to explore how different thinkers navigate various spaces (immigrant\, poor and minority neighborhoods\, safe space\, queer space\, other space)\, intersectional spaces/identities and student engagement on-campus\, off-campus\, digitally\, visually\, narratively and in other ways. The background context for this conference is the contemporary discourse\, politics\, schools\, media\, and day-to-day interactions that are divisive\, mean-spirited\, confrontational and tinged or directly hateful. \n*The conference has reached full capacity. For any questions or concerns please contact our Operations Manager at lilyhernandez@irle.ucla.edu. \nTENTATIVE AGENDA\n \nThursday\, February 7\, 2019 \n9:00AM-10:00AM      Welcome & Opening Remarks \n10:00AM-12:00PM    Plenary 1: In Conversation with Intersectionality \n12:00PM-1:30PM       Lunch \n1:30PM-3:00PM         Session A of Participant Papers \n3:15PM-4:45PM          Session B of Participant Papers \n5:00PM-6:00PM         Reception \nFriday\, February 8\, 2019 \n9:00AM-9:15AM      Day 2 Welcome and Announcements \n9:15AM-10:45PM     Plenary III: International Engagement \n12:30PM-2:00PM    Lunch \n2:00PM-3:30PM      Plenary IV: Student Engagement and Service Learning \n3:45PM-4:45PM       Session C of Participant Papers \n4:45PM-5:15PM        Closure and Next Conference \n  \n\n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/2019-diversity-in-higher-education-research-colloquium/
LOCATION:Hermosa Room\, Carnesale Commons\, 251 Charles E Young Drive West\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T155507
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SUMMARY:Book Talk with Timothy A. Wise
DESCRIPTION:IRLE Colloquia Series presents: \nIn conversation with  Timothy A. Wise about his new book\, Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness\, Family Farmers\, and the Battle for the Future of Food\, New Press. \nJoin author\, Timothy A. Wise on a worldwide journey to understand the continued prevalence of hunger amid plenty. If the world now has record levels of grain production\, why does it also have rising indices of hunger and malnutrition? Wise makes a convincing case that increasing the industrial production of agricultural commodities does almost nothing for the world’s hungry. Oddly enough\, it can even make them hungrier. \nHe argues that agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests. Rather than helping the hungry eat today\, they are undermining sustainable food production and destroying the natural resources—land\, air\, water\, climate—we all will need to eat tomorrow. \nFor more information\, visit http://bit.ly/TimothyAWise. \nTimothy A. Wise is a senior researcher at the Small Planet Institute\, where he directs the Land and Food Rights Program. He is also a senior research fellow at Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute\, where he founded and directed its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program. He previously served as executive director of the U.S.-based aid agency Grassroots International. He is the author of Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness\, Family Farmers\, and the Battle for the Future of Food (The New Press) and Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico. He lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. \n\nThe 2019-2020 Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) colloquia series aims to convene faculty\, students\, and special guests to discuss multidisciplinary research and policy issues impacting workers and their families today.\n\n\n \n\n\nThe Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) houses the Labor Studies academic program and three units – UCLA Labor Center\, Human Resources Roundtable\, and the Labor Occupational Safety and Health program. IRLE forms wide-ranging research agendas that carry UCLA into the Los Angeles community and beyond.\n\nCosponsored by: \nUCLA Chicana/o Studies Research Center \nUCLA Center for Mexican Studies
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-with-timothy-a-wise/
LOCATION:Haines Hall 144\, 375 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T140000
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SUMMARY:"The Fight for Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity"
DESCRIPTION:IRLE Colloquia Series presents: \nIn conversation with Paul Apostolidis about his new book: \nThe Fight for Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity. \nAs unauthorized migrants\, day laborers are subjected to extraordinarily harsh treatment when they work and search for jobs. Yet these extremely marginalized migrants also epitomize struggles that apply throughout our increasingly precarious working world. Tracking the conditions that make day laborers both exceptions within today’s economy and fitting symbols of its dysfunctions\, using intellectual resources drawn from Paulo Freire’s popular education theory\, this talk sheds light on the contortions of time that define what “precarity” means. The analysis also takes lessons from day laborers’ worker centers about the kinds of organizations capable of fighting precarity for the good of all working people. \n\n\nVisit us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/PaulApostolidis \nPaul Apostolidis joins the Government faculty at the London School of Economics and Political Science (London\, UK) in June 2019; he is currently on the Politics faculty at Whitman College (Walla Walla\, WA\, USA). His new book\, The Fight for Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity\, was released by Oxford University Press in January 2019. Previously he authored Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy (University of Minnesota Press\, 2010) and Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio (Duke University Press\, 2000). With Juliet Williams (UCLA\, Gender Studies) he co-edited Public Affairs: Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals (Duke University Press\, 2004). Professor Apostolidis’s articles have appeared in journals of political theory\, critical theory\, feminist studies\, and race & ethnic studies. His teaching emphasizes public impact research and he is the founder and director of Whitman’s nationally recognized community-based research program on “The State of the State for Washington Latinos.” Professor Apostolidis received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Cornell University and his A.B. from Princeton University. He can be reached at paulapostolidis@gmail.com. \n\n\n\n\nThe 2019-2020 Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) colloquia series aims to convene faculty\, students\, and special guests to discuss multidisciplinary research and policy issues impacting workers and their families today.\nThe Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) houses the Labor Studies academic program and three units – UCLA Labor Center\, Human Resources Roundtable\, and the Labor Occupational Safety and Health program. IRLE forms wide-ranging research agendas that carry UCLA into the Los Angeles community and beyond.\n\nCosponsored by: \nUCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/paulapostolidis/
LOCATION:Haines Hall 144\, 375 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190418T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190418T133000
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SUMMARY:(Un)-Just Wages: Wage Theft and Day Labor in Colorado
DESCRIPTION:IRLE Colloquia Series presents: \nRebecca Galemba and her talk on Un-Just Wages: Wage Theft and Day Labor in Colorado. \nThe DU Just Wages Project\, led by Professor Galemba\, recently released results from a two year qualitative and quantitative study on wage theft experienced by day laborers in the Denver metro area. From 2015-2017\, she led teams of DU graduate and undergraduate students in collaboration with community partners (El Centro Humanitario\, Sturm College of Law\, and Towards Justice) to conduct qualitative interviews and participant observation with 170 workers. Research teams also conducted interviews with legal agency staff\, lawyers\, non-profits\, employers\, and policymakers in order to understand the larger context in which wage theft operates. The qualitative study followed with a survey (with assistance from Dr. Randall Kuhn) of 400 day laborers coupled with Know Your Rights outreach at street corner hiring sites. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWage theft most frequently manifested in terms of workers being paid less than they were promised and outright non-payment for work completed. 62% of day laborers had ever experienced wage theft; 19% in the 6 months prior to being surveyed. The research uncovered common patterns employers use to cheat workers out of earned wages\, as well as strategies that day laborers\, lawyers\, state agencies\, and non-profits use to recoup wages. The research found that workers had low levels of legal knowledge\, but that any outreach must also be coupled with more proactive policy to hold employers and frequent industry violators accountable to make these rights actionable. Limitations within the intersection of immigration and labor law makes it difficult for low-wage immigrant workers to pursue redress while working in day labor itself poses risks of downward integration in terms of wages\, working hours\, and exposure to wage theft. \nVisit us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/RebeccaGalemba \nRebecca Galemba is Assistant Professor of International Studies at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Her research interests include border studies\, migration\, informal and illicit economies\, and the intersections between immigration and work. Her first book\, Contraband Corridor: Making a Living at the Mexico-Guatemala Border\, was published by Stanford University Press in December 2017. Her most recent projects involve students in community-based research on immigration and labor issues in Colorado. In May of 2017\, she received the University of Denver’s Public Good Faculty of the Year Award\, recognizing the integration of service-learning and the public good into her teaching and research. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nThe 2019-2020 Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) colloquia series aims to convene faculty\, students\, and special guests to discuss multi-disciplinary research and policy issues impacting workers and their families today.\n\n\n\nThe Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) houses the Labor Studies academic program and three units – UCLA Labor Center\, Human Resources Roundtable\, and the Labor Occupational Safety and Health program. IRLE forms wide-ranging research agendas that carry UCLA into the Los Angeles community and beyond. \nCosponsored by:  \n\n\n\nUCLA Center for the Study of International Migration
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/rebeccagalemba/
LOCATION:UCLA Bunche Hall 6275
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190424T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190424T143000
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SUMMARY:The Politics of Survival: Racial Geographies of Capitalism in Post-Disaster Puerto Rico
DESCRIPTION:IRLE Colloquia Series presents: \n\nFernando Tormos-Aponte and his talk on”The Politics of Survival: Racial Geographies of Capitalism in Post-Disaster Puerto Rico.” \n\n\n\nOn September 20th\, 2017\, Hurricane María made landfall on Puerto Rico. With sustained winds of 250km per hour\, the storm accomplished the unthinkable: making the economic outlook of Puerto Rico for the foreseeable future look even worse than it had the day before. Tormos argues that the hurricane exacerbated an ongoing fiscal and humanitarian crisis while revealing deep-rooted inequalities and federal and local government neglect of marginalized communities. He will address how US-Puerto Rico economic and political relations have set the stage for the crisis and how social movements are organizing to respond.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisit us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/FernandoTormosAponte \nFernando Tormos-Aponte is a postdoctoral fellow with the Scholars Strategy Network and a research fellow of the Southern Methodist University Latino Center. His research focuses on how social movements push governments and corporations to address issues of inequality. This summer he will be a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge where he will work on his new book with José Ciro Martínez on the politics of survival and disaster relief in Puerto Rico in the wake of hurricane María. \n\n\n\n\n\nThe 2019-2020 Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) colloquia series aims to convene faculty\, students\, and special guests to discuss multi-disciplinary research and policy issues impacting workers and their families today. \nThe Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) houses the Labor Studies academic program and three units – UCLA Labor Center\, Human Resources Roundtable\, and the Labor Occupational Safety and Health program. IRLE forms wide-ranging research agendas that carry UCLA into the Los Angeles community and beyond. \n\n\n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/fernandotormosaponte/
LOCATION:Haines Hall 144\, 375 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190513T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190513T163000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk with Abigail L. Andrews
DESCRIPTION:  \nIRLE Colloquia Series presents: \n\nIn conversation with Abigail L. Andrews about her new book: Undocumented Politics: Place\, Gender\, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor twenty-one months\, Abigail Andrews lived with two groups of migrants and their families in the mountains of Mexico and in the barrios of Southern California. Her nuanced comparison reveals how local laws and power dynamics shape migrants’ agency. Andrews also exposes how arbitrary policing abets gendered violence. Yet she insists that the process does not begin or end in the United States. Rather\, migrants interpret their destinations in light of the hometowns they leave behind. Their counterparts in Mexico must also come to grips with migrant globalization. And on both sides of the border\, men and women transform patriarchy through their battles to belong. Ambitious and intimate\, Undocumented Politics reveals how the excluded find space for political voice.\n\nAbigail Andrews is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies at the University of California-San Diego. Her research focuses on gender\, migration\, state power\, and grassroots agency. She is particularly interested in the struggles of marginalized groups in Mexico and the United States\, including indigenous peasants\, deportees\, and undocumented immigrants. She also co-direct the Mexican Migration Field Research Program at UCSD. Dr. Andrews has also studied power dynamics within transnational social movements and the role of gender in global politics. In collaboration with students at UCSD\, she is currently conducting field research about the political impacts of forced displacement\, with a focus on deportation and Central American transit through Mexico. \nFor more information\, visit http://bit.ly/AbigailAndrews. \n\nThe 2019-2020 Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) colloquia series aims to convene faculty\, students\, and special guests to discuss multidisciplinary research and policy issues impacting workers and their families today.\n\n\n \n\n\nThe Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) houses the Labor Studies academic program and three units – UCLA Labor Center\, Human Resources Roundtable\, and the Labor Occupational Safety and Health program. IRLE forms wide-ranging research agendas that carry UCLA into the Los Angeles community and beyond.\n\nCosponsored by: \nUCLA Center for Mexican Studies
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/abigail-andrews/
LOCATION:UCLA Bunche Hall 6275
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190520T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190520T133000
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SUMMARY:In Conversation with Henry Reichman: Academic Capitalism and the Future of Academic Freedom
DESCRIPTION:IRLE Colloquia Series presents:\n\nIn conversation with Henry Reichman: Academic Capitalism and the Future of Academic Freedom.\n\n\n\n\nIn the wake of the 2016 election\, challenges to academic freedom have intensified\, higher education has become a target of attacks by conservatives\, and issues of free speech on campus have grown increasingly controversial. In his recently published book\, The Future of Academic Freedom\, Henry Reichman explores the theory\, history\, and contemporary practice of academic freedom. He pays attention to such varied concerns as the meddling of politicians and corporate trustees in curriculum and university governance\, the role of online education\, the impact of social media\, the rights of student protesters and outside speakers\, the relationship between collective bargaining and academic freedom\, and the influence on research and teaching of ideologically motivated donors. In this talk Reichman will summarize some of his major conclusions\, focusing in particular on the threat to academic freedom posed by what some have labeled “academic capitalism.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nHenry Reichman is Professor Emeritus of History at California State University\, East Bay; Chair of the American Association of University Professors Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure; and Chair of the AAUP Foundation.  His book\, The Future of Academic Freedom\, was published in April by the Johns Hopkins University Press.  He earned the Ph.D in History at UC Berkeley. \n\n\n\n\n\nFacebook: http://bit.ly/AcademicCapitalism \n\n\n\n\nThe 2019-2020 Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) colloquia series aims to convene faculty\, students\, and special guests to discuss multidisciplinary research and policy issues impacting workers and their families today. \n\nThe Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) houses the Labor Studies academic program and three units – UCLA Labor Center\, Human Resources Roundtable\, and the Labor Occupational Safety and Health program. IRLE forms wide-ranging research agendas that carry UCLA into the Los Angeles community and beyond.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/henryreichman/
LOCATION:UCLA Bunche Hall 6275
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T133000
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CREATED:20190412T225843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190507T222809Z
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SUMMARY:Book Talk with Laura Velasco
DESCRIPTION:IRLE Colloquia Series presents:\n\nIn conversation with Laura Velasco about her new book: Migración\, trabajo y asentamiento en enclaves globales. Indígenas en Baja California Sur\n\n\nEste libro analiza las condiciones de vida de trabajadores inmigrantes en territorios que constituyen enclaves globales\, tanto agrícolas como turísticos de élite en el estado mexicano de Baja California. Las investigaciones que sustentan el libro muestran procesos comunes de segmentación\, segregación y etnización asociadas a condiciones precarias de trabajo y residencia para los inmigrantes\, aún con las arduas estrategias de reproducción social y cultural de los trabajadores y sus familias. La situación resultante conlleva a reflexionar sobre la sustentabilidad social de estos modernos enclaves globalizados\, así como respecto al papel de la intervención gubernamental para aminorar sus efectos en la producción y reproducción de desigualdades étnicas y sociales.\n\n\n\nFor more information\, visit http://bit.ly/LauraVelasco.\n\n\n\nLaura Velasco Ortiz: socióloga mexicana. Doctora en Ciencias Sociales con especialidad en Sociología. Es investigadora del Departamento de Estudios Culturales de El Colegio de la Frontera Norte\, desde 1991. Especialista en los temas de migración\, etnicidad y género\, e identidades culturales. \nEntre sus publicaciones destacan los libros: en coautoría. De jornaleros a colonos: residencia\, trabajo e identidad en el Valle de San Quintín. El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (2014).  con Cristian Zlolniski y Marie-Laure Coubès. Métodos cualitativos y su aplicación empírica. Por los caminos de la investigación sobre migración internacional\, coord. Con Marina Ariza\, El Colef-UNAM\, (2012); Mexican Voices of the  Border  Region\, en coautoría con Oscar Contreras\, Temple University Press\, 2011; Migración\, fronteras e identidades étnicas transnacionales\, El Colef\, 2008; Mixtec transnational Identity\, University of Arizona Press\, 2005.\n \n\nThe 2019-2020 Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) colloquia series aims to convene faculty\, students\, and special guests to discuss multidisciplinary research and policy issues impacting workers and their families today.\n\n\nThe Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) houses the Labor Studies academic program and three units – UCLA Labor Center\, Human Resources Roundtable\, and the Labor Occupational Safety and Health program. IRLE forms wide-ranging research agendas that carry UCLA into the Los Angeles community and beyond. \n\n\n\nCosponsored by: \n\nUCLA Center for Mexican Studies
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/lauravelasco/
LOCATION:Haines Hall 144\, 375 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191014T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191014T160000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk with Steven Greenhouse
DESCRIPTION:  \n“From the longtime New York Times labor correspondent\, an in-depth look at working men and women in America\, the challenges they face\, and how they can be re-empowered. In an era when corporate profits have soared while wages have flatlined\, millions of Americans are searching for ways to improve their lives\, and they’re often turning to labor unions and worker action\, whether #RedforEd teachers’ strikes or the Fight for $15. Wage stagnation\, low-wage work\, and blighted blue-collar communities have become an all-too-common part of modern-day America\, and behind these trends is a little-discussed problem: the decades-long decline in worker power.Steven Greenhouse sees this decline reflected in some of the most pressing problems facing our nation today\, including income inequality\, declining social mobility\, the gender pay gap\, and the concentration of political power in the hands of the wealthy. He rebuts the often-stated view that labor unions are outmoded–or even harmful–by recounting some of labor’s victories\, and the efforts of several of today’s most innovative and successful worker groups.” \nCosponsored by: UCLA Labor Center \nRSVP Here
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/steven-greenhouse-2/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 1200
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