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SUMMARY:IRLE Public Talk with Labor Center Director Candidate John Logan
DESCRIPTION:Dear IRLE Community\, \nPlease join us for the first of three campus visits by candidates for the position of UCLA Labor Center Director. Each applicant will give a talk and lead a conversation on their vision for the future of the Labor Center. We encourage staff\, community members\, and affiliated faculty to join us and provide feedback on each candidate. \nThis provides our community the opportunity to interact with prospective applicants and truly get a sense of what each applicant envisions should they be selected as the next Labor Center Director. The public talks will be thirty minutes long\, followed by thirty-minute Q&A sessions. We hope you consider joining us next week as these public talks begin. RSVP details for our first public talk are listed below: \nWednesday\, Sept. 27\, 2023 \n10:00 am – Registration \n10:30 am – Public Talk Begins \n11:00 am – Q&A \n11:30 am – Community and Board Members Engagement \nLocation: \nUCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs\, UCLA Campus \n337 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095 \nRoom 4320 \nRSVP HERE \nLive Zoom Option: \nhttps://ucla.in/3LzqExa  \nMeeting ID: 951 7496 8724 \nPasscode: 298583 \nJohn Logan on the Future of the UCLA Labor Center  \n \nJohn Logan is Professor and Director of Labor Studies at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and a visiting research associate at the UC Berkeley Labor Center\, where he is also a member of the external advisory board. Under his leadership\, the Labor Studies program has taught over 25\,000 SFSU undergraduates and placed several dozen Labor Studies majors in union jobs at the state\, national\, and international levels. Between 2000-2009\, he was an assistant and associate professor of comparative labor at the London School of Economics and Political Science\, where he convened the master’s programs in International Employment Relations and European Labor Studies. He was also Research Director at the UC Berkeley Labor Center from 2009-2010 and a postdoc at the UCLA Institute for Labor and Employment from 2001-2003. Logan has published widely on unions\, labor law\, and employer opposition to unionization\, both in the United State and internationally\, including\, most recently\, several articles on the high-profile union campaigns at Starbucks and Amazon. His publications have appeared in Industrial Relations\, British Journal of Industrial Relations\, New Labor Forum\, Journal of Labor Research\, International Labor and Working-Class History\, International Union Rights\, Dissent\, Advances in Labor and Industrial Relations\, and Work Organization\, Labor\, and Globalization\, State of California Labor\, and many other journals. Logan has worked extensively with state\, national and global union federations over the past twenty years and has conducted union research in countries ranging from India to Malawi to Paraguay. He has also published over 200 opinion columns in major publications – including The Hill\, The Conversation\, The Guardian\, Associated Press\, Reuters\, Politico\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Jacobin\, and many others – and he has been quoted and interviewed on labor issues in state\, national\, and international media\, including the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Wall Street Journal\, Associated Press\, Reuters\, The Guardian\, CNN\, NPR\, BBC News\, Bloomberg TV\, thousands of times. \nDuring this public talk John will outline his vision for the growth and development of the UCLA Labor Center as a nexus of labor scholarship\, innovation\, and debate over the next 5-10 years. He believes the labor movement is at a particularly promising juncture\, especially in California\, and the UCLA Labor Center has unique potential to play a key leadership role in bringing together academics\, practitioners\, students\, and the community to advance labor education and research. He will discuss methods such as the expansion of the Labor Studies program\, direction of applied research projects\, increased public programming\, and heightened engagement with the university\, labor movement\, and community\, including through student participation in internships and research\, by which such goals can be attained. He will outline his plan to further establish the UCLA Labor Center as the premier national institution for labor scholarship and how that will attract a diverse\, dedicated\, and dynamic group of individuals to the Labor Center as students\, speakers\, and instructors; uplift California workers and unions; and position the Labor Center as a sought-after and expert contributor to discourse about labor and workers’ rights across the state\, nationally\, and globally
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/irle-public-talk-with-labor-center-director-candidate/
LOCATION:4320 Public Affairs\, 337 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:IRLE Public Talk with Labor Center Director Candidate Francisco Garcia
DESCRIPTION:Dear IRLE Community\, \nPlease join us for the second of three campus visits by candidates for the position of UCLA Labor Center Director. Each applicant will give a talk and lead a conversation on their vision for the future of the Labor Center. We encourage staff\, community members\, and affiliated faculty to join us and provide feedback on each candidate. \nThis provides our community the opportunity to interact with prospective applicants and truly get a sense of what each applicant envisions should they be selected as the next Labor Center Director. The public talks will be thirty minutes long\, followed by thirty-minute Q&A sessions. We hope you consider joining us next week as these public talks begin. RSVP details for our second public talk are listed below: \nFriday\, Sept. 29\, 2023 \n10:00 am – Registration \n10:30 am – Public Talk Begins \n11:00 am – Q&A \n11:30 am – Community and Board Members Engagement \nLocation: \nUCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs\, UCLA Campus \n337 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095 \nRoom 4320 \nRSVP HERE \nLive Zoom Option: \nhttps://ucla.in/48x6az1  \nMeeting ID: 971 6690 5917 \nPasscode: 043197 \nFrancisco Garcia on Nonviolence and Social Movements & the Future of the UCLA Labor Center  \n \nFrancisco García is a PhD Candidate in Theological Studies\, Ethics and Action at Vanderbilt University and serves on the leadership team of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt Divinity School as a Doctoral Fellow. He also serves as an Assistant Chaplain for Justice Ministries at St. Augustine’s Chapel in Nashville. He has a BA and MA in Latin American Studies and an MA in Urban Planning from UCLA where he focused on community development and labor issues; his MA thesis explored collaborative strategies for unions and worker centers in Los Angeles. Francisco is a seasoned organizer\, educator\, and leader in community\, labor\, faith\, and academic settings. In the labor movement Francisco worked in various organizing\, negotiating\, and leadership capacities with workers in both the public and private sectors with SEIU\, UAW\, AFSCME and Warehouse Workers United. His organizing commitments led him to attend seminary at the Claremont School of Theology (obtaining a Master of Divinity) and he was later ordained an Episcopal priest; in this capacity he has provided pastoral\, administrative\, and justice-focused leadership at various parishes in Southern California\, most recently as the Rector of Holy Faith Episcopal Church in Inglewood. He served many years on the board of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) and as a clergy leader with Faith in Action group L.A. Voice. He currently serves on the national advisory committee of Bargaining for the Common Good and the board of the Interreligious Network for Worker Solidarity. Francisco’s dissertation explores the role of faith among Latinx/immigrant workers organizing for justice in their workplaces and communities. \nFor his public talk\, Francisco will share about his experience\, insights\, and vision for leading the UCLA Labor Center into the foreseeable future. Drawing upon the decades-long legacy and strength of the Labor Center in labor education\, research\, policy\, organizing and movement building\, Francisco will discuss the current labor landscape\, and offer his assessment of the challenges and opportunities that the Labor Center and its many partners have to further advance and sustain an intersectional labor justice agenda in Los Angeles\, California\, and beyond. As part of this conversation\, Francisco will share ideas for deepening the Labor Center’s important work around nonviolence and social movements\, and the role of community\, interfaith\, and labor coalitions in this effort. Francisco will emphasize a collaborative\, relational\, and strategic approach to supporting the staff and programs of the Labor Center as it works within the context of a large public university system and ever-changing social\, political\, and economic contexts.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/irle-public-talk-with-labor-center-director-candidate-with-francisco-garcia/
LOCATION:4320 Public Affairs\, 337 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:IRLE Public Talk with Labor Center Director Candidate Saba Waheed
DESCRIPTION:Dear IRLE Community\, \nPlease join us for our final campus visit for the position of UCLA Labor Center Director. Each applicant will give a talk and lead a conversation on their vision for the future of the Labor Center. We encourage staff\, community members\, and affiliated faculty to join us and provide feedback on each candidate. \nThis provides our community the opportunity to interact with prospective applicants and truly get a sense of what each applicant envisions should they be selected as the next Labor Center Director. The public talks will be thirty minutes long\, followed by thirty-minute Q&A sessions. We hope you consider joining us next week for our third and final public talk. RSVP details are listed below:    \nFriday\, Oct. 6\, 2023 Location: \n10:00 am – Check-In and Reception \n10:30 am – Public Talk Begins \n11:00 am – Q&A \n11:30 am – Community and Board Members Engagement \nLocation: \nUCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs\, UCLA Campus \n337 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095 \nRoom 4320 \nRSVP HERE \nLive Zoom Option: \nhttps://ucla.in/3ES4kLD  \nMeeting ID: 993 1343 5211 \nPasscode: 793481 \nSaba Waheed on How Research and Narrative Change Can Advance Worker Movements \n \nSaba Waheed is Research Director at the UCLA Labor Center. She has over twenty years of research experience developing projects with strong community participation. With her team at the UCLA Labor Center\, she coordinated the first-ever study of domestic work employers\, launched a multi-year study of workers and learners\, and conducted research on the impact of the pandemic on nail salon workers and owners. She has also conducted research related to gig workers\, young workers\, Black workers\, LGBTQ+ grocery workers and retail workers. Saba teaches the Labor Summer Research Program\, guiding students through an applied research project. Previously she worked as the Research Director at DataCenter where she co-developed the “research justice” framework which aims to address the structural inequities embedded in traditional research methods. In addition to her research work\, Saba is an award-winning writer and co-produces the podcast Re:Work. Saba strongly believes that research and media are powerful tools for community storytelling. She received an MA in Anthropology from Columbia University and a BA in English and Religious Studies from UC Berkeley. \nSaba Waheed’s talk will trace her contributions in research justice and narrative change and how these areas align with the UCLA Labor Center’s aim to expand its research capacity\, storytelling\, and school-to-movement pipeline. The talk will pay particular attention to how participatory methods and teaching tools\, like popular education\, position workers as creators of knowledge and advocates of their own working conditions. Such approaches are a core feature of the Labor Center’s critical engagement with immigrant and worker communities and collectively shape research policy\, action agendas\, and recommendations for worker and social movements across multiple scales. The talk will also detail her vision for the Labor Center: to implement and amplify research and leadership programs in academic and other public spaces; to support staff development and equity; to build strong and transparent structures; and to ensure the long-term financial sustainability of the organization. This vision is rooted in the value of collaborative methods of engagement with staff\, the IRLE\, and faculty\, alongside our union\, community\, and student partners. Last\, the talk will be grounded in the Labor Center’s mission that recognizes how the university serves public interest needs and leverages resources to improve the lives of immigrants\, working people\, those locked out of the workforce\, and our student base.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/irle-public-talk-with-labor-center-director-candidate-saba-waheed/
LOCATION:4320 Public Affairs\, 337 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Screening and Talkback: "Backstreet to the American Dream"
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis modern-day look at the classic American Dream is done through the quintessential 21st Century entrepreneurial endeavor — food trucks. “Backstreet to the American Dream” is a deep dive into the birthplace of the $2 billion global industry\, Los Angeles. The 90-minute feature profiles two trucks and juxtaposes the experiences of American entrepreneurs and Mexican immigrants. \nAfter the screening\, enjoy a talkback from the filmmaker\, the protagonist and two faculty members at the UCLA Labor Center who were featured in this film. \nDate: Tuesday\, October 10th \nTime: 6-8pm \nLocation: James West Alumni Center\nRSVP: CLICK HERE \n  \nMeet the Speakers: \nPatricia Nazario ’91 is an international and Congressional Award distinguished journalist. She was on assignment for the National Public Radio affiliate\, KPCC\, in Los Angeles\, when she realized the food truck revolution was a game-changer and began producing the independent bilingual documentary for theatrical release “Backstreet to the American Dream.” \nGaspar Rivera Salgado is a project director at UCLA Labor Center\, as well as a core faculty member of the Labor Studies interdepartmental program\, under the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. He is also the director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies. He teaches classes on work\, labor and social justice in the U.S. and immigration issues. \nHe also directs the Institute for Transnational Social Change and has extensive experience as an independent consultant on transnational migration\, race and ethnic relations\,and diversity training for large organizations. \nVictor Narro is a nationally known expert on immigrant rights and low-wage workers. He has been involved with immigrant rights and labor issues for almost 40 years and is currently a project director for the UCLA Labor Center. Teaching classes that focus on immigrant rights\, low-wage workers\, the labor movement\, and spirituality\, mindfulness and self-care in social justice activism\, Narro is a core faculty member for Labor Studies. He also teaches courses in the Public Interest Law Program at UCLA’s School of Law. \nDoña Guillermina\, is the owner/operator of El Pescadito\, a mariscos lonchera. Guillermina was born in Nayarit\, Mexico\, and is the oldest of nine siblings. In 1976\, she gave birth to her first child\, Felipe. Shortly after arriving to the U.S.\, she found work on a food truck. She bought her own in 1982 and has been parking in the same neighborhood ever since.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/screening-and-talkback-backstreet-to-the-american-dream/
LOCATION:James West Alumni Center
CATEGORIES:Labor Studies Events
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SUMMARY:“Manufacturing Freedom”: Elena Shih Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:About the event\nThe UCLA Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group\, IRLE\, and CSW|Streisand Center invite you to join Professor Elena Shih to discuss her new book\, Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work\, Anti-Trafficking Rehab\, and the Racial Wages of Rescue (UC Press\, 2023). \nAbout the book\nSex worker rescue programs have become a core focus of the global movement to combat human trafficking. While these rehabilitation programs promise freedom from enslavement and redemptive wages for former sex workers\, such organizations actually propagate a moral economy of low‑wage women’s work that obfuscates relations of race\, gender\, national power\, and inequality. Manufacturing Freedom is an ethnographic exploration of two American organizations that offer vocational training in jewelry production to women migrants in China and Thailand as a path out of sex work. In this innovative study\, Elena Shih argues that anti‑trafficking rescue and rehabilitation projects profit off persistent labor abuse of women workers and imagined but savvily marketed narratives of redemption. \nAbout the author\nElena Shih is Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University\, where she directs a human trafficking research cluster through the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Shih is the author of two books: Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work\, Anti-Trafficking Rehab\, and the Racial Wages of Rescue (University of California Press)\, and White Supremacy\, Colonialism\, and the Racism of Anti-Trafficking (Routledge). Shih serves on the editorial boards for The Anti-Trafficking Review\, a peer-reviewed journal of the Global Alliance to Combat Traffic in Women\, and openDemocracy’s Beyond Trafficking and Slavery op-ed platform. In 2018 Shih was appointed to the Rhode Island State Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights. Recent op-eds about her research and organizing as a core collective member of Red Canary Song appear in the New York Times and Providence Journal. She earned a PhD in Sociology from UCLA\, and a BA in Asian Studies from Pomona College. \n*Please RVSP for the room number and to secure lunch. \nDate: Thursday\, October 19\, 2023\nTime: 12:15 – 1:45 pm PDT\nLocation: Haines Hall 352\, Portola Plaza Los Angeles\, CA 90095 \nView event flier PDF \nRSVP HERE
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/manufacturing-freedom-elena-shih-book-talk/
LOCATION:Haines Hall 352\, Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fly in Power Film Screening and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n\n\n\n\nThe UCLA Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group\, IRLE\, and CSW|Streisand Center in collaboration with Red Canary Song and SWOP LA invite you to join the film screening of Fly in Power\, followed by a Q&A with Elena Shih and a SWOP LA speaker. \nFly in Power follows Charlotte\, a Korean massage worker and core organizer of Red Canary Song (RCS)\, a social justice collective of Asian diasporic massage workers\, sex workers and allies who basebuild through mutual aid. Through her history\, we learn how the carceral system is pitted against Asian migrant women and their survival. The documentary is a glimpse into the intimate spaces that not only connect these women and non-binary queers\, but is also a testament to the global advocacy of women’s rights to work and thrive. The documentary is directed by Yin Q\, a Queer\, Chinese American parent\, writer\, and sex worker rights advocate\, and Yoon Grace Ra\, a cultural organizer working with audio/visual media. \nThis film has been produced entirely by women\, non-binary\, trans and queers of the Asian diaspora—more than half of the production team are former/current sex workers. Each story centers the narrative of an Asian massage worker in her own words\, enabling us to witness the trust built between the film team and the participants with their own agency of storytelling and editing. Fly in Power premiered in March this year in Flushing\, Queens. Since then it has been shown at various universities and film festivals including the San Francisco Sex Worker Film Festival\, the Los Angeles Asian and Pacific Islander Film Festival where it won Grand Jury Prize Best Documentary\, and the 46th Asian American International Film Festival. \nA catered reception will follow after screening and Q&A. \n*The Darren Star Screening Room is located in Melnitz Hall and situated on the northeast corner of the UCLA campus in Westwood\, next to the Broad Art Center and the Murphy Sculpture Garden.* \nDate: Friday\, October 20\, 2023\nTime: 5 – 8 pm PDT\nWhere: Darren Star Screening Room\n235 Charles E Young Dr N Melnitz Hall 1422 Los Angeles\, CA 90095 \nView event flier PDF \nRSVP HERE
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/fly-in-power-film-screening-and-qa/
LOCATION:Darren Star Screening Room 1422\, 235 Charles E Young Dr.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Labor Studies 10 presents: #HotLaborSummer Panel
DESCRIPTION: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. \nLearn how a #HotLaborSummer can transform the American labor movement from the ground up and what fights remain ahead for workers in 2024 and beyond. \nDate: Tuesday\, October 24th \nTime: 3pm \nLocation: UCLA Fowler Auditorium – 103B / Zoom\nRSVP: bit.ly/LS_hotlaborsummer \n*Light refreshments will be served
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-studies-10-presents-hotlaborsummer-panel/
LOCATION:UCLA Fowler Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Labor Studies Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231107T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231107T150000
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SUMMARY:Labor Studies Coffee Chat with the Labor Studies Student Union (LSSU)
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, November 7th from 2-3 pm for a coffee chat with leaders from the Labor Studies Student Union (LSSU). \nThis 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 to give feedback on the Labor Studies program and what you’d like to see from us! \nDate: Tuesday\, November 7th \nTime: 2pm – 3pm \nLocation: Kaplan Hall A26 \nLoading…
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-studies-coffee-chat-with-the-labor-studies-student-union-lssu/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall A26
CATEGORIES:Labor Studies Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231109T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231109T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152245
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SUMMARY:Port of Los Angeles Field Trip
DESCRIPTION:UCLA Labor Studies and @ILWU Local 13 invite students to a free worker-centered tour of the Port of Los Angeles.  \nYou 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. Lunch and transportation to/ from UCLA will be provided for free.  \nDate: Thursday\, November 9\, 2023 \nLocation: Port of Los Angeles \nRSVP: bit.ly/LS_LAPort \n  \nSchedule: \n7:45am: Arrive at UCLA Gateway Plaza \n8am-9:15am: Bus to Port of Los Angeles \n9:30-10:30am: Port of LA Boat Tour \n10:30-11:15am: Visit Harry Bridges Memorial in San Pedro \n11:30-2:15pm: Visit ILWU Local 13 Memorial Hall (lunch included) \n2:30-4pm: Bus to UCLA Gateway Plaza
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/port-of-los-angeles-field-trip/
LOCATION:Port of Los Angeles
CATEGORIES:Labor Studies Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231121T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231121T150000
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SUMMARY:Labor Studies Coffee Chat with Professor Victor Narro
DESCRIPTION: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 \n\nProfessor 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 attorney for just as long and also serves as the UCLA Labor Center’s project director. During the academic term\, he teaches at the UCLA Law School as well as to Labor Studies undergraduates. Each summer\, his course\, Spirituality\, Mindfulness\, Self-Care & Social Justice\, draws in students from all over looking to avoid burnout while organizing.\n\n\nDate: Tuesday\, November 21st \nTime: 2pm – 3pm \nLocation: Kaplan Hall A26 \n\nLoading…
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-studies-coffee-chat-with-professor-victor-narro/
LOCATION:Kaplan A26
CATEGORIES:Coffee Chat,Labor Studies Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231129T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231129T120000
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SUMMARY:Labor Studies Speaker Series: Molly Benitez
DESCRIPTION:Molly Benitez (they/them) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Portland State University. Molly’s research sits at the intersections of race\, gender/sexuality\, and labor and utilizes ethnographic and autoethnographic methods to record and analyze the experiences of LGBTQ+ trades workers. \nThey are currently working on their manuscript tentatively titled\, Becoming Your Labor: Identity Production and the Affects of Labor where they weave together these intersections along with theories of work and affect theory (traced through women of color) to analyze how the conditions of work (physical\, social\, and cultural) produce and reproduce workers’ identities\, bodies\, and communities\, or how work works on laborers. \nIn 2018 Molly co-founded the Seattle-based Reckoning Trade Project and Junqtion\, a virtual community space made by and for LGBTQ+ trades workers. In 2022 Molly founded the LGBTQ+ Trades Worker Archive housed at the Harry Bridges Labor Center at the University of Washington. Molly currently sits on the board of the National LGBTQ Worker’s Center. \nTalk Title: This is our house and you’re coming into it”: Embodiment and the Affects of Labor \nDescription: “This is our house and you’re coming into it”: Embodiment and the Affects of Labor\, shares the experience of Z\, a young\, non-binary\, biracial\, queer person as they navigate their first few weeks in a pre-apprenticeship construction trades program. Z shares how they negotiate their gender identity\, trauma\, and anxiety in a labor field that has been historically dominated by white\, cis-gender\, working-class men as well as the strategies they deploy for survival. \nThinking along with Z’s experience\, Dr. Benitez utilizes affect theory\, traced through women of color feminisms and queer of color theory\, to articulate how the ‘affects of labor’—the visceral and active consequences of our working environments—produces and reproduces workers’ bodies\, identities\, relationships\, and communities\, often in small\, imperceptible ways that have lifelong consequences. This talk highlights the way work— all of our work—is a dialectical process in which workers produce for labor and are in turn produced by their labor \nRSVP: https://forms.office.com/r/dMc1akkQW3 \nEvent Location: In-Person + Zoom \nPublic Talk: 10:30am-12pm \nIn-Person: Labor Studies Speaker Series events will take place at the Public Affairs Building 4320. Coffee and water will be served. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/92369635586?pwd=NmI4R3RSUWRVNk5Ld0F4TEs5WFgrZz09 \nMeeting ID: 923 6963 5586\nPasscode: 558081 \n 
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-studies-speaker-molly-benitez/
LOCATION:4320 Public Affairs\, 337 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231201T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152245
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SUMMARY:Labor Studies Speaker Series: Heather Berg
DESCRIPTION: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 Theory: Notes from the Sex Worker Left\, engages anti-capitalist sex workers’ political thought on the family\, class\, the state\, and violence. Berg is the editor of the South Atlantic Quarterly special issue “Reading Sex Work.” Her writing on sexual labor\, gig work\, and feminist political economy appears in Signs\, WSQ\, Feminist Studies\, and Critical Historical Studies\, among others. A graduate of UC-Santa Barbara’s Feminist Studies PhD program\, she is assistant professor of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. \nTalk Title: Sex Workers\, Against Work \nDescription: “Sex Workers\, Against Work” surveys Berg’s research on sex workers’ struggles for labor justice now and a world beyond work in the future. The talk moves from porn workers’ interventions on the set shop floor to anti-capitalist sex workers’ critical encounters with the civilian labor Left. \nRSVP: https://forms.office.com/r/qPxD1tqBE0 \nEvent Location: In-Person + Zoom \nPublic Talk: 4-5:30pm \nIn-Person: Labor Studies Speaker Series events will take place at the Public Affairs Building 4320. Coffee and water will be served. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/92337485806?pwd=SDA4YzhjNjVHajZHTlVxRjJOMVN0Zz09 \nMeeting ID: 923 3748 5806\nPasscode: 805113
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-studies-speaker-heather-berg/
LOCATION:4320 Public Affairs\, 337 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Labor Studies Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231205T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231205T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152245
CREATED:20231121T182152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231201T182822Z
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SUMMARY:The Fight For Quality Public Education and Worker Rights
DESCRIPTION:Join us on December 5th at 2pm at Fowler Auditorium A103B for a talk with UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz. \nCecily helped to lead a successful 3-day strike in March 2023 that brought together 60\,000 teachers and classified workers of the Los Angeles Unified School District. She has emerged as a leading voice for worker rights and quality public education. \nEveryone is welcome to attend. \nDate: Tuesday\, December 5th \nTime: 2:00pm \nLocation: Fowler Auditorium A103B
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/the-fight-for-quality-public-education-and-worker-rights/
LOCATION:Fowler Auditorium A103B\, 308 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231207T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152245
CREATED:20231115T222243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231115T222243Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
DESCRIPTION:Join us on December 7th from 12-1:30pm at UCLA Bunche Hall 6275 for a book talk with Margot Canaday as she discusses her new book\, “Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America.” Lunch will be provided. \nMargot Canaday\, Princeton University Dodge Professor of History\, is an award-winning historian who studies gender and sexuality in modern America. She is the author of The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America (Princeton\, 2009) and co-editor of Intimate States: Gender\, Sexuality\, and Governance in Modern U.S. History (Chicago\, 2021). Her book\, Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America (Princeton\, 2023)\, explores the ways that the workplace has mattered for queer people over time\, both as a site of vulnerability and exploitation but sometimes also of deep meaning. \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA History of Gender & Sexuality Working Group\, History Department\, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment\, Center for the Study of Women\, Luskin Center for History and Policy\, Gender Studies Department\, LGBTQ Studies\, Labor Studies\, and the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute \nDate: Thursday\, December 7th \nTime: 12pm – 1:30pm \nLocation: UCLA Bunche Hall 6275
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/queer-career-sexuality-and-work-in-modern-america/
LOCATION:UCLA Bunche Hall 6275
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231207T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231207T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152245
CREATED:20231129T181717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231129T184813Z
UID:21258-1701961200-1701966600@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Labor Studies Speaker Series: Charmaine Chua
DESCRIPTION:Charmaine Chua is a Singaporean scholar and organizer\, and is currently an assistant professor of Global Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her interdisciplinary scholarly and political work is interested in how planetary networks of production and distribution shape the organization of racialized and classed divisions within capitalist social formations\, with particular attention to how these divisions are lived and contested through workers and community struggles.  \nShe is currently writing two books\, The Logistics  Counterrevolution: Fast Circulation\, Slow Violence and the Transpacific Empire of Circulation\, and How to Beat Amazon: The Struggle of America’s New Working Class (co-authored with Spencer Cox). Her work has been published in The Socialist Register\, Theory and Event\, Antipode\, Environment and Planning D\, The Boston Review\, and Jacobin\, among other venues\, and her research has been quoted or featured in news outlets including The New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, The Guardian\, De Correspondent\, and Le Monde.  She is an editor of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space \, a founding faculty member of the Marxist Institute of Research\, and organizes with Cops off Campus\, Amazonians United\, and UCSB Academics for Justice in Palestine. In 2023\, she was named a Freedom Scholar\, an award recognizing academics who demonstrate a long-term commitment to supporting social movements. \nTalk Title: The Logistics Counter-revolution: Fast Circulation\, Slow Violence\, and the Transpacific Empire of Circulation \nDescription: The rise of the global logistics industry has profoundly impacted global workers’ struggles by organizing goods movement through a politics of just-in-time circulation. Although scholars have often dubbed this phenomenon “the revolution in logistics\,” in this talk I argue that the so-called ‘logistics revolution’ is better understood as a counter-revolution. Tracing the historical conjuncture of the rise of logistics with the end of formal empire\, I ask: What did the rise of logistics look like from the vantage of the decolonizing Global South? As anti-colonial leaders and trade unions in Southeast Asia pursued economic sovereignty during the “Third World’s” transition to independence\, they nationalized industry\, seized colonial property\, and sought to build national shipping and industrial capacity. To contain this threat to private enterprise\, US and UK shipping corporations\, backed by their states\, pursued the globalization of supply chain infrastructures. \nRSVP: bit.ly/laborspeaker_chua \nEvent Location: In-Person + Zoom \nPublic Talk: 3-4:30 PM \nIn-Person: Labor Studies Speaker Series events will take place at the Public Affairs Building 4320. Coffee and water will be served. \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/98707640233?pwd=Ym5ITml3cTdsYWxYYUx0NUJ0aXBqZz09  \nMeeting ID: 987 0764 0233 \nPasscode: 114491
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-studies-speaker-series-charmaine-chua/
LOCATION:Public Affairs Building 4320\, 337 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231210T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231210T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152245
CREATED:20231201T181901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231201T183257Z
UID:21284-1702224000-1702227600@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Voices For New Democracy Forum: The Fight For Immigrant Rights
DESCRIPTION:Join us on December 10 at 4pm PT/7pm ET through Zoom for a discussion on immigrant rights. \nWith the 2024 election less than one year away\, immigration has once again emerged as a pivotal issue in the upcoming Presidential race. Trump is already ramping up anti-immigrant rhetoric\, while Biden has failed to secure immigration reform. \nWhat can we do to continue to fight for immigrant rights in this critical time? \nFeatured Speakers: \n\nJose Calderon\, Professor Emeritus\, Pitzer College\nPablo Alvarado\, National Day Labor Organizing Network\nKarely Amaya\, Undocumented Student Leader\n\nDate: Sunday\, December 10 \nTime: 4pm PT/7pm ET \nLocation: Zoom
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/voices-for-new-democracy-forum-the-fight-for-immigrant-rights/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231213T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231213T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152245
CREATED:20231129T182424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231129T184418Z
UID:21266-1702468800-1702474200@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Labor Studies Speaker Series: Sara Gia Trongone
DESCRIPTION:Sara Gia Trongone is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research examines contemporary labor movement renewal in the U.S. and the ways in which unions and worker organizations adapt to a changing economy. In her dissertation\, she explores how workers win social\, economic\, and political power\, the conditions under which those wins spread or scale\, and what induces social movement organizations to coordinate through a comparative case study of four worker organizations in Chicago. Her research has been published in Mobilization and Work and Occupations. She is a Graduate Research Fellow with the Institute of Research on Poverty and an active member of the Wisconsin labor movement. Prior to starting her Ph.D. program\, she received a master’s degree from the NYU Steinhardt School of Education\, focusing on critical pedagogy.  \nTalk Title: Working for the Public Good: Organizational Dilemmas & Strategy in Public Sector Unions \nDescription: This talk examines the growing surge of labor mobilization in the public sector and its roots in Chicago after the 2008 financial crisis. Through a matched case comparison of two public sector union locals\, I explore why the U.S. has seen a wave of ‘common good’ strikes among educators but not other public sector workers. Using comparative-historical analysis\, I generate a theoretical framework that accounts for variation in strategic decisions among unions operating outside of a traditional market relationship. I find that strategy is mediated by what I call organizational dilemmas\, or the set of obstacles and opportunities that derive from how the state organizes public services\, the nature of the labor process\, and the structure of workers’ organizations.  \nRSVP: bit.ly/laborspeaker_trongone \nEvent Location: In-Person + Zoom \nPublic Talk: 12-1:30 PM \nIn-Person: Labor Studies Speaker Series events will take place at the Public Affairs Building 4320. Coffee and water will be served. \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/97048837464?pwd=M2ZaVXNpRVFHRC80RHdDeFpLU1I5QT09  \nMeeting ID: 970 4883 7464 \nPasscode: 312642
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-studies-speaker-series-sara-gia-trongone/
LOCATION:Public Affairs Building 4320\, 337 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152245
CREATED:20240215T171110Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240215T171110Z
UID:21825-1709121600-1709125200@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Labor Studies Coffee Chat with the #Opportunity4All Campaign!
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, February 28th between 12 pm to 1 pm for a coffee chat with members of the #Opportunity4All campaign! \nThis is a casual event for Labor Studies students to learn about ways to support undocumented students and find ways to become involved. \nDate: Wednesday\, February 28th \nTime: 12pm – 1pm \nLocation: Bunche Hall 3153 \nLoading…
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-studies-coffee-chat-with-the-opportunity4all-campaign/
LOCATION:Bunche Hall 3153
CATEGORIES:Coffee Chat,Labor Studies Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240301T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240301T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152245
CREATED:20240222T032913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240222T205629Z
UID:21759-1709281800-1709316000@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Thinking Gender 2024: "Dystopian Realities\, Feminist Utopias"
DESCRIPTION:UCLA’s CSW|Barbra Streisand Center presents 34th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference on Friday\, March 1st\, 2024.\nThinking Gender 2024’s conference theme\, “Dystopian Realities\, Feminist Utopias\,” considers what it means to live in the cataclysmic wake of racial capitalism\, settler colonialism\, and neoliberalism. At the same time\, the theme celebrates how feminist\, queer\, and BIPOC scholarship\, activism\, and art enact utopias by imagining alternatives to hegemonic structures. \nThe theme seeks to explore how dystopianism serves as an apt metaphor to explore and critique social and political issues related to gender\, race\, class\, and sexuality and how utopianism is an ethical mandate to imagine a better present and future. \nIRLE is a co-sponsor of this event. \nDate: March 1\, 2024 \nTime: 8:30am – 6:00pm \nLocation: James West Alumni Center\, The Collins Conference Room \nRSVP HERE.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/thinking-gender-2024-dystopian-realities-feminist-utopias/
LOCATION:Collins Alumni Conference Room at UCLA James West Alumni Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240423T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240423T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152245
CREATED:20230403T184405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T225153Z
UID:19064-1713880800-1713886200@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Career Development Workshops within the Labor Commissioner’s Office and Department of Industrial Relations
DESCRIPTION:The California Labor Commissioner’s Office (LCO) is hiring! Join UCLA Labor Studies and the UCLA Labor Center to learn more about career opportunities within the LCO and Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) to support their mission of improving working conditions for California’s workers. \nThis winter and spring\, the UCLA Labor Center will lead workshops to provide students with resources for preparing state employment applications. The workshops will break down the application process\, teach best practices for applications\, and provide time for students to ask questions about the process and start working on their applications. A member of the LCO team will also talk about their experience and path to the LCO. \nThe workshops will include a resume workshop\, so please come to the session with a completed resume. \nWorkshop Date: April 23rd @ 2-3:30pm \nLocation: Zoom \nRSVP HERE. \n— \nCheck out the current job listings here: calcareers.gov \n\nJob control number: JC-425332 or click here\nJob control number: JC-425361 or click here\nJob control number: JC-425373 or click here
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/career-development-workshops-within-the-labor-commissioners-office-and-department-of-industrial-relations/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240424T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240424T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152245
CREATED:20240412T225437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T225437Z
UID:22493-1713967200-1713970800@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:UFW Meet & Greet and Support
DESCRIPTION:Join us on April 24th at 2pm PT at UCLA Ackerman Union\, Bruin Reception Room for a meet & greet and support for the United Farm Workers (UFW). \nYou will get the opportunity to meet & greet UFW President Teresa Romero. \nGeneral ticket admission: $25 \nStudent ticket admission: $15 \nVenmo: @sffw_ucla \nFunds will support UFW farmworker organizing \nContact: larry.frank.00@gmail.com
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/ufw-meet-greet-and-support/
LOCATION:Bruin Reception Room\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240424T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240424T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152245
CREATED:20240412T224128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T224236Z
UID:22484-1713970800-1713976200@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Community Labor Rally for Farmworkers
DESCRIPTION:Join us on April 24th at 3pm PT at UCLA Ackerman Union\, Bruin Reception Room for a community labor rally for farmworkers. \nHear from UFW President Teresa Romero\, the first woman to lead the United Farm Workers Union\, on the development of the best labor laws in US history that provide unparalleled support for new organizing of farmworkers. Learn about their recent campaigns and how you can help. \nThe rally will feature: \n\nArt\, Food\, and Music\nSolidarity\nFarmworker Testimony\nStudent and Community Speakers\nLabor and Food Education\n\nDate: Wednesday\, April 24th \nTime: 3pm PT \nLocation: UCLA Ackerman Union\, Bruin Reception Room \nContact: ufw.ucla@gmail.com \n 
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/community-labor-rally-for-farmworkers/
LOCATION:Bruin Reception Room\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240507T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240507T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152245
CREATED:20240408T182910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240506T211035Z
UID:22425-1715090400-1715095800@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Canceled: Career Development Workshops within the Labor Commissioner’s Office and Department of Industrial Relations
DESCRIPTION:The California Labor Commissioner’s Office (LCO) is hiring! Join UCLA Labor Studies and the UCLA Labor Center to learn more about career opportunities within the LCO and Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) to support their mission of improving working conditions for California’s workers. \nThis winter and spring\, the UCLA Labor Center will lead workshops to provide students with resources for preparing state employment applications. The workshops will break down the application process\, teach best practices for applications\, and provide time for students to ask questions about the process and start working on their applications. A member of the LCO team will also talk about their experience and path to the LCO. \nThe workshops will include a resume workshop\, so please come to the session with a completed resume. \nWorkshop Date: May 7th @ 2-3:30pm \nLocation: Zoom \nRSVP HERE.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/career-development-workshops-within-the-labor-commissioners-office-and-department-of-industrial-relations-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240524T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240524T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152245
CREATED:20240423T201916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240515T232515Z
UID:22508-1716548400-1716555600@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Labor @ UCLA Research Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Our second annual Labor@UCLA Research Showcase is part of Undergraduate Research Week\, a week-long presentation of undergraduate research and creative inquiry at UCLA. \nNow in its tenth year\, Undergraduate Research Week\, which will be held May 20-24\, 2024\, is UCLA’s largest undergraduate conference. \nThe Labor@UCLA Research Showcase will spotlight UCLA undergraduate student research in the field of Labor Studies. Labor Studies is an interdisciplinary program of study which critically analyzes the theory and practice of current workplace issues. Students develop a deeper understanding of the relationships between their education and society at large and how they\, as college graduates\, can transform the nature of work. \nStudents who were selected will be presenting on past or current work developed for a capstone\, honors theses\, or other Labor Studies and related classes (both approved and related). \nThe showcase will be in a Zoom webinar format. \nDate: Friday\, May 24th\nTime: 11 AM – 1 PM\nLocation: Zoom \nRSVP to attend the event HERE.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-ucla-research-showcase/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240821T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240821T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152245
CREATED:20230816T173244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240814T175858Z
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SUMMARY:Labor Summer Research Program 2024 Final Presentations: Workers and Learners in Los Angeles County
DESCRIPTION:This summer\, students participating in the Labor Summer Research Program (LSRP) collected surveys and interviews about how working students navigate barriers and opportunities in fulfilling their educational\, career and work goals. \nJoin us on Wednesday\, August 21st\, as student researchers share their findings\, key issues impacting workers and learners\, and share strategies and solutions to support students who work and workers who study. \nThere will be four webinars\, and you are welcome to join as many sessions as you’re able to – similar data will be presented at each webinar but with different student teams. \n\n\nWebinar 1: 10:00-10:55AM: Aline Silva Rodrigues\, Carolyn Morelos\, Jack Butcher\, Klara Daniaud\, Marshall Olmos\, Mehar Madan\, Mireya Rodriguez\, Yesenia Aragon\, and Zihan Zhang. \n\n\nWebinar 2: 11:00-11:55AM: Angelina Quint\, Gabrielle Aung\, JJ Jacho\, Jun Li\, Kayla Lopez\, Keyshawn Sealie\, Luisa Ortiz\, and Simran Kaur. \nWebinar 3: 12:00-12:55PM: Emilia Benitez\, Hina Malik\, Jimmy Mancilla\, Joaquin Antonio\, Mia Tracy\, Sean Clenista\, Victoria Fierro\, and Vijay Rikhye. \nWebinar 4: 1:00-1:55PM: Joseph Wu\, Sofia Barajas\, Sophia Raymond\, and Ritika Sarma. \nRSVP: bit.ly/LSRP24RSVP
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-summer-research-program-2023-final-presentations-workers-and-learners-in-los-angeles-county/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241008T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241008T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T152245
CREATED:20220831T152134Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240920T182715Z
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SUMMARY:2024 Labor Studies Open House
DESCRIPTION: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! \nDate: Tuesday\, October 8th \nTime: 12:30pm – 2pm \nLocation: Bruin Reception Room (Ackerman Second Floor)\nRSVP deadline: October 1st\, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. PT. \nEvent Details: \n\nOpen to current students and those interested in Labor Studies.\nFood will be provided.\n\nFor questions\, please email laborstudies@irle.ucla.edu. \nLoading…
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/2024-labor-studies-open-house/
LOCATION:Bruin Reception Room\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Labor Studies Events
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SUMMARY:Filipinos That Strike
DESCRIPTION:Please join UTLA educators\, leaders\, and organizers in partnership with UCLA Labor Studies for the launch of the ongoing oral history and archive project to document the role of Filipinos in the UTLA 2019 and 2023 strikes. \nThe event will be held on the 2nd floor of UTLA. Please park at the UTLA parking lot\, whose entrance is on Berendo between 6th and Wilshire Blvd. Park and bring your parking ticket with you for free validation. \nDate: Monday\, October 21st \nTime: 5:30 – 7:30 PM \nLocation: United Teachers Los Angeles\, 3303 Wilshire Boulevard #10th fl Los Angeles\, CA 90010 \nTo RSVP\, click HERE.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/filipinos-that-strike/
LOCATION:United Teachers Los Angeles\, 3303 Wilshire Boulevard\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90010\, United States
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SUMMARY:How Should Culture Industry Workers Respond to Artificial Intelligence?
DESCRIPTION:How Should Culture Industry Workers Respond to Artificial Intelligence? \nJoin Us for a Roundtable Discussion\nDiscover how SAG-AFTRA members are tackling the challenges posed by AI in the culture industry. Learn about: \n\nNegotiating the first contract regulating AI use in film and television.\nOrganizing strikes against video game makers over AI technology misuse.\nAdvocating for state and federal legislation to control AI.\n\nEvent Details\nDate: December 4\, 2024\nTime: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM\nLocation: Royce 362 & Zoom \nPanelists \nZeke Alton is a professional Actor and volunteer SAG-AFTRA negotiator for TV/film\, interactive media\, animation\, and commercials. He has a background in contract negotiation\, system design/management\, and strategic planning. His performance credits span film\, television\, and all genres of voice acting. He is known for roles in video games such as The Callisto Protocol and Call of Duty\, and Animated series like Boss Baby: Back in the Crib.  \nWoody Schultz is an actor and producer and serves on both the Los Angeles Local and National Boards of SAG-AFTRA where he is also national chair of the AI Task Force\, Vice-Chair of the Innovation and New Technology Committee and member of the Government Affairs and Public Policy Committee. He was also a member of the negotiating committee for the most recent TV/Theatrical contract. \nSarah Elmaleh is an actor and voice director with a passion for collaborative creation\, and serves as Chair of the Interactive Negotiating Committee. Best known for roles in AAA games like Hi-Fi Rush\, Halo Infinite and Gears 5\, and for indies like Afterparty\, Pyre and Gone Home\, her directing credits likewise span production scope from Goodbye Volcano High to Fortnite. Led by her desire to foster stronger inter-disciplinary collaboration within games\, she has spent years organizing\, advising\, and educating in the games industry and academic programs. \nRSVP BELOW: \nLoading…
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/how-should-culture-industry-workers-respond-to-artificial-intelligence/
LOCATION:Royce 362 & Zoom
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SUMMARY:Data Economies and Futures: An In-Depth Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA Data X for a discussion on how data and digital ecosystems have reshaped our world\, intertwining technology with entrepreneurial and economic outcomes\, and changing the way people live and think on Wednesday\, Feb. 12 at 3312 Murphy Hall\, 12 pm panel and Q&A\, 1 pm lunch.  \n\nWhat ethical and practical questions does this shift raise?\nWhat skills do students need now to remain relevant in an AI-driven job market?\nWhat policies must be in place to ensure our economic security?\n\nModerator:\nRamesh Srinivasan \nProfessor of Information Studies and Design|Media Arts departments; Director\, UCLA Digital Cultures Lab; Community Engagement\, UCLA DataX \nPanelists:\nTobias Higbie\, Professor of History and Labor Studies and Director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment\, UCLA College\, Social Sciences \nVelibor Misic\, Associate Professor of Decisions\, Operations and Technology Management\, UCLA Anderson School of Management \nShreya Shreya\, Easton Fellow\, MBA Candidate\, UCLA Anderson School of Management
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/data-economies-and-futures-an-in-depth-dialogue/
LOCATION:3312 Murphy Hall
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Post/Revolutionary Conditions: Renewed Visions of the Iranian Freedom Struggle with author Alborz Ghandehari
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCLA IRLE and CSW|Streisand Center’s Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group for a book talk on Post/Revolutionary Conditions: Renewed Visions of the Iranian Freedom Struggle with author Alborz Ghandehari on February 27\, 2025 at 3 pm at 2125 Rolfe Hall.  \nThe discussion will offer an intersectional analysis of how radical and progressive movement builders have re-envisioned liberation in the post-’79 era\, despite new forms of oppression under the Islamic Republic and from US and other foreign imperial powers. Post/Revolutionary Conditions shows how potent reimaginings of a radically democratic future have been shaped by multiple generations of protest and kindred struggles globally. \nAbout the author:  \nAlborz Ghandehari is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah. His research centers social movements in Iran and Southwest Asia/North Africa\, as well as movements in the region’s diasporas. \nTo RSVP to attend the talk and book signing\, click here
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-post-revolutionary-conditions-renewed-visions-of-the-iranian-freedom-struggle-with-author-alborz-ghandehari/
LOCATION:2125 Rolfe Hall
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