Join us on Tuesday, November 21st from 2-3 pm in Kaplan A26 for a coffee chat with activist, Labor Center project director, and Labor Studies Professor, Victor Narro Professor Victor Narro is an experienced activist, with thirty years as a leader in the immigrant and labor rights movements. Additionally, he has worked as a labor/immigration […]
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. They are currently working on their manuscript tentatively […]
Heather Berg writes about work, sex, and social struggle. Her 2021 book, Porn Work, explores workers’ creative strategies for surviving (and sometimes thriving) in an industry in crisis. Winner of the Working-Class Studies Association’s C.L.R. James “best book” award, it locates porn workers as experts on the politics of precarity. Her current book project, Lumpen […]
Join us on December 5th at 2pm at Fowler Auditorium A103B for a talk with UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz. Cecily 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 […]
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. Margot Canaday, Princeton University Dodge Professor of History, is an award-winning historian who studies gender and sexuality in […]
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 […]
Join us on December 10 at 4pm PT/7pm ET through Zoom for a discussion on immigrant rights. With 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. […]
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 […]
Join us on Wednesday, February 28th between 12 pm to 1 pm for a coffee chat with members of the #Opportunity4All campaign! This is a casual event for Labor Studies students to learn about ways to support undocumented students and find ways to become involved. Date: Wednesday, February 28th Time: 12pm - 1pm Location: Bunche […]
UCLA's CSW|Barbra Streisand Center presents 34th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference on Friday, March 1st, 2024. Thinking 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 […]
