Book Talk with Abigail L. Andrews

UCLA Bunche Hall 6275

  IRLE Colloquia Series presents: In conversation with Abigail L. Andrews about her new book: Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants For 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 […]

In Conversation with Henry Reichman: Academic Capitalism and the Future of Academic Freedom

UCLA Bunche Hall 6275

IRLE Colloquia Series presents: In conversation with Henry Reichman: Academic Capitalism and the Future of Academic Freedom. In 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 Talk with Laura Velasco

Haines Hall 144 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

IRLE Colloquia Series presents: In conversation with Laura Velasco about her new book: Migración, trabajo y asentamiento en enclaves globales. Indígenas en Baja California Sur Este 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 […]

Book Talk with Steven Greenhouse

Rolfe Hall 1200

  "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 […]

Book Talk with Aarti Namdev Shahani

Haines Hall 144 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

IRLE Colloquia Series presents: In Conversation with Aarti Namdev Shahani about their new book, Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares. The American political discourse is constantly calibrating its interpretation of what it means to be American. Coming from an undocumented family herself, writer Aarti Shahani has spent her life navigating the shifting tides of […]

Mapping Corporate Power: Activist-Researchers and Labor Coalitions in the 1970’s U.S

IRLE Colloquia Series presents: In Conversation with Grace Davie, Mapping Corporate Power: Activist-Researchers and Labor Coalitions in the 1970's U.S. When working people in the U.S. sought union representation in the 1970s they faced fierce resistance from businesses willing to increase their use of bare-knuckle anti-union tactics. In response, and in the context of rising […]

Book Talk with Inés Durán Matute

Chicano Studies Research Center Library 144 Haines Hall, Los Angeles

IRLE Colloquia Series presents: In conversation with Inés Durán Matute on their new book, Indigenous Peoples and the Geographies of Power. Mezcala’s narratives of Neoliberal Governance. Tracing key trends of the global-regional-local interface of power, Inés Durán Matute through the case of the indigenous community of Mezcala (Mexico) demonstrates how global political economic processes shape […]

Virtual Hangout with Saul Sarabia

Online

We believe that community finds a way to persist despite physical distances – so join us for our Labor Studies Zoom Hangouts! Ask faculty & staff questions, connect with peers, or just hang out in our informal and casual Zoom sessions! Open to NEW and CURRENT students! Theme: Join the Labor Studies Team and IRLE researcher/criminal […]

Labor Studies Welcome

Online

Labor Studies Information Session + Student Mixer. Learn about the Labor Studies Major & Minor and meet your faculty, staff, alumni, and fellow students! Register HERE. 

“Waging Change” Film Screening

Online

Join UCLA Labor Studies for a Special Online Screening of @WAGINGCHANGE and Live Q&A Session! Waging Change shines a spotlight on the challenges faced by restaurant workers trying to feed themselves and their families off tips by intertwining stories of individuals, such as Nataki Rhodes of Chicago, Andrea Velasquez of Detroit and Wardell Harvey of New Orleans with […]

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