BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Institute for Research on Labor and Employment - ECPv6.0.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Institute for Research on Labor and Employment X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://irle.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Institute for Research on Labor and Employment REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T143000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20190402T151802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T171133Z UID:6085-1554987600-1554993000@irle.ucla.edu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190207T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190208T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20190114T223943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190204T225340Z UID:5486-1549528200-1549648800@irle.ucla.edu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190110T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190110T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20190107T221826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T223708Z UID:5435-1547121600-1547127000@irle.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://irle.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/unnamed.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181128T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181128T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20181019T203826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181109T183051Z UID:5021-1543413600-1543413600@irle.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://irle.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Reverend-Lawson-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181120T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181120T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20181012T194629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181026T193547Z UID:5005-1542738600-1542745800@irle.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://irle.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-12-at-12.13.31-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20181010T203149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181019T210349Z UID:4988-1540488600-1540494000@irle.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://irle.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Iamundoc-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20181010T215359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181019T205919Z UID:4993-1540382400-1540389600@irle.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://irle.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Hour-Crisis.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181010T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181010T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20181010T172639Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181019T210646Z UID:4955-1539173700-1539178200@irle.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://irle.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/school-of-law.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20180529T215614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180529T223646Z UID:4278-1527685200-1527692400@irle.ucla.edu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180522T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180522T171500 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20180529T221411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180529T225039Z UID:4273-1527004800-1527009300@irle.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://irle.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/LS-FB-Event-UnionTime-11-7.png GEO:34.0705488;-118.44976 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=UCLA De Neve Auditorium 351 Charles E. Young Drive West Los Angeles CA 90095 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=351 Charles E. Young Drive\, West:geo:-118.44976,34.0705488 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171121T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171121T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20171101T224312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171101T224556Z UID:3450-1511267400-1511276400@irle.ucla.edu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20171101T222542Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T204019Z UID:3439-1510072200-1510077600@irle.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://irle.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/LS-FB-Event-UnionTime-11-7.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170728 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170729 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20170726T202854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170727T220612Z UID:3053-1501200000-1501286399@irle.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Test Divisional Event DESCRIPTION:Testing\, please disregard. URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/test-divisional-event/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170522T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170522T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20170518T162630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170518T162630Z UID:2752-1495454400-1495459800@irle.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170411T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170411T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20170320T230655Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T230913Z UID:1603-1491931800-1491942600@irle.ucla.edu 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/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://irle.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/IRLE-70-screenshot.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161118T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161118T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20170302T225914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T225945Z UID:1570-1479472200-1479477600@irle.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161023T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161023T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20170302T224706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224706Z 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161016T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161016T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20170302T224707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224707Z UID:1491-1476621000-1476626400@irle.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160819T081500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160819T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20170302T224643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224643Z UID:1448-1471594500-1471638600@irle.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160525T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160525T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20170302T224643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224643Z UID:1449-1464179400-1464184800@irle.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160519T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160519T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20170302T224643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224643Z UID:1450-1463673600-1463680800@irle.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160512T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160512T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20170302T224643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224643Z UID:1451-1463054400-1463059800@irle.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160504T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160504T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20170302T224644Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224644Z UID:1452-1462365000-1462370400@irle.ucla.edu 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160428T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160428T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20170302T224646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224646Z UID:1453-1461852000-1461857400@irle.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Low-wage Workers and Public Policy: Marginalization\, Coercion\, and Alternatives DESCRIPTION:This research forum takes a broad look at emerging issues of immigrant integration\, incarceration\, and low-wage work. Six very different researchers from four UC campuses will present their cutting-edge research\, looking at the destructive effects of many policies currently in place\, but also at alternatives to move toward economic and social justice. URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/low-wage-workers-and-public-policy-marginalization-coercion-and-alternatives/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160418T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160418T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20170302T224646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224646Z UID:1454-1460998800-1461004200@irle.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Uber Drivers: Independent Contractors\, Employees\, or Something Else? DESCRIPTION:Are Uber Drivers and others who provide service in the On-Demand economy entitled to the employment rights\, benefits\, and protections that other employees enjoy? Or\, are the “gig workers” actually independent contractors\, entitled to no protection at all? If they are employees\, they would get benefit of minimum wage and overtime laws\, protection against discrimination\, health and safety standards\, workers compensation for on-the-job injury\, and many other rights under state and federal employment laws. Moreover\, if they are considered “employees\,” then they are entitled to the protection of the labor laws when they try to organize unions. Some have advocated that the law create a new category for these worker\, such as “dependent contractor\,” or “independent worker?” Others have advocated that we improve the statutory rights and protections for independent contractors. This panel will consider these issues from a number of perspectives. URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/uber-drivers-independent-contractors-employees-or-something-else/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160406T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160406T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20170302T224646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224646Z UID:1455-1459945800-1459951200@irle.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Occupiers and Dreamers: Insiders and Outsiders in a New Political Generation DESCRIPTION:Young adults have long been overrepresented among political activists\, and their generationally specific experiences and worldviews often shape social movement agendas. Although these phenomena have received limited scholarly attention in recent years\, they are highly salient features of the new cycle of protest that has emerged in the 21st century United States. This talk analyzes two key components of that cycle\, the 2011 Occupy Wall Street uprising and the movement of undocumented immigrant “Dreamers.” Both were led by U.S. “Millennials” (born between 1980 and 2000). I argue that Millennials comprise a new political generation\, with a worldview that sets it apart from previous generations of U.S. activists. I compare the Occupiers’ and Dreamers’ political strategies and organizational forms and argue that\, despite a shared worldview\, this new political generation is heterogeneous in regard to modes of mobilization. The Occupiers were a relatively privileged group of young people whose aspirations were frustrated\, especially in the context of the Great Recession\, threatening them with exclusion from the economic stratum they had long expected to enter; by contrast the Dreamers were already marginalized because of their undocumented status and sought inclusion within the economic mainstream. Their different social locations\, in turn\, contributed to Occupiers’ and Dreamers’ distinctly different political strategies and organizational forms. URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/occupiers-and-dreamers-insiders-and-outsiders-in-a-new-political-generation/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160330T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160330T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20170302T224646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224646Z UID:1456-1459341000-1459341000@irle.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Apple\, Foxconn and China's New Working Class: Political Economy of Global Production DESCRIPTION:This is a worker-centered analysis of Apple\, the world’s most profitable corporation\, and its primary supplier\, with more than one million workers in China alone\, the world’s largest industrial employer\, Foxconn. Apple’s commercial triumph rests not only on its design and marketing supremacy but on the reversal of its original business model from producing computers to outsourcing its entire consumer electronics production to Asia. Drawing on extensive fieldwork at multiple sites from coastal to inland\, we examine the interface of Apple\, Foxconn\, the Chinese state\, and the unions. The power dynamics of the buyer-driven supply chain are analysed as these play out for Chinese workers in an epoch of fundamental class transformation from the predominance of state owned enterprises to a workforce that is overwhelmingly comprised of rural migrant workers. The analysis of incomplete proletarianization and the emergence of a new form of precarious labor is central to the story. Power asymmetries\, including technological control and global marketing\, assure the dominance of Apple in price setting and the timing of product delivery\, resulting in intense pressures and illegal overtime for workers. In the wake of a wave of suicides at the Foxconn plant in Shenzhen in 2010\, we studied labor practice\, living conditions and patterns of resistance at Foxconn and other factories\, centering on two generations of rural migrant workers in a period in which contentious social protest has grown exponentially: in a system that is fully unionized (company union)\, in which strikes and autonomous unions are illegal\, and in which the state actively seeks to redirect conflict from worker protest to the courts. We consider the paradox of worker power and powerlessness at the interface of a system in transition from predominantly state owned enterprise with lifetime employment for urban workers to one in which large areas of the state sector have been privatized and in which a partially proletarianized rural migrant workforce\, whose numbers are approaching 300 million but who lack fundamental labor and citizenship rights\, constitute the core of the contemporary working class and its most volatile segment. URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/apple-foxconn-and-chinas-new-working-class-political-economy-of-global-production/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160223T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160223T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20170302T224647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224647Z UID:1457-1456250400-1456259400@irle.ucla.edu SUMMARY:2015-16 Benjamin Aaron Labor Law Lecture DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an informative evening as our special guest Dr. David Weil\, Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division at the Department of Labor\, discusses his priorities and initiatives at the Hour and Wage Division\, including the Wage and Hour Division’s strategic enforcement and opportunities for stakeholder engagement with the agency to raise compliance behavior. He will also discuss his much acclaimed book The Fissured Workplace. Dr. Weil is an internationally recognized expert in public and labor market policy; regulatory performance; industrial and labor relations; transparency policy; and supply-chain restructuring and its effects. URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/2015-16-benjamin-aaron-labor-law-lecture/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160212T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160212T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20170302T224650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224650Z UID:1458-1455278400-1455283800@irle.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Bonded for Flexibility: Migrant Workers in Qatar's Construction Industry anbd Beyond DESCRIPTION:Qatar\, the host of the 2022 World Cup\, has been called out for its labor practices. Human rights and labor organizations have condemned the treatment of migrant workers and have called the small gulf nation a modern slave state. While Qatar has been singled out for its labor practices\, forced labor arrangements\, whether formally sanctioned or informally implemented\, are widespread internationally and are profoundly compatible with modern capitalist production. This paper draws on a qualitative examine of the construction industry in Qatar to examine the ways in which compulsion is used in global production systems to meet production challenges. While critiques of the labor system in Qatar have emphasized working conditions and wages\, this paper focuses instead on worker skill\, an aspect of production that is often represented as a neutral input in the form of human capital. I argue that labor arrangements based on compulsion enable firms to erase the skill contribution of workers even as they rely on their skill to meet technical challenges and highly variable production targets. This systemic skill erasure forecloses all negotiations between labor and management over how skill is used and compensated\, thus preserving maximum production and price flexibility for firms. The paper concludes with a call for a renewed exploration of the politics and power relations of production systems\, and of the specific ways in which compulsion is deployed as a deliberate production strategy. URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/bonded-for-flexibility-migrant-workers-in-qatars-construction-industry-anbd-beyond/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160129T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160129T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T134709 CREATED:20170302T224650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224650Z UID:1459-1454068800-1454074200@irle.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Protecting Immigrant Workers: New Strategies for Strengthening Labor Standards Enforcement DESCRIPTION:Professor Janice Fine will present some of her research on the evolution of the worker center movement as well as recent work building a theoretical argument and set of case studies on the role of unions and worker centers in enforcing labor standards in low wage sectors in partnership with government agencies. URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/protecting-immigrant-workers-new-strategies-for-strengthening-labor-standards-enforcement/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR