Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

"The Immigrant Rights Protests of 2006: Explanatory Quandaries and Future Prospects"
2011-05-18 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)

Book Talk: "Reds, Whites, and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music and Race in the United States"
2011-05-11 15:00 - 17:30

Workers' Memorial Day
2011-04-30 11:00 - 14:00

"Worker Health & Public Policy: Still a Burning Issue?"
2011-04-28 12:00 - 13:30

"A New Industrial Democracy? Recent Trends and Changes in the French Labor Movement"
2011-04-27 12:30

"Public Sector Workers - Over Fed or Fed Up?"
2011-04-21 17:00 - 19:00

"Seeking Spatial Justice: Labor-Community Coalition Building in Los Angeles, 1965-2010"
2011-04-20 12:30

"Lula's Hegemony and Brazilian Labor Relations: The Case of Call Centers and their Unions"
2011-04-13 12:30 - 2013-04-13 00:00

Conference - "Reconnecting to Work: Consequences of Long-Term Unemployment and Prospects for Job Creation"
2011-04-01 14:00 - 2011-04-02 17:20
Despite the fact that the recovery began in the third quarter of 2009, the unemployment rate in the United States remained at 9.4% in December and the U.S. is still experiencing record levels of long-term unemployment. Even if the recovery should continue and grow stronger, the Congressional Budget Office does not expect the overall unemployment rate to drop to 5% until 2014 and others predict it will take even longer. Those people who have been out of work for six months or more are likely to be among the last to find jobs. Thus, the alarmingly high rate of long-term unemployment in the U.S. is likely to persist for many years.This day and a half conference will be held on April 1-2, 2011 on UCLA’s campus. It will focus on the consequences of long-term unemployment and the policies that are needed to address it. The program includes presentations examining the psychological and economic consequences of long-term unemployment as well as policies intended to increase job creation and get the long-term unemployed back into jobs.

'The Prospects for Domestic Regulation of Labor Standards in a Globalized Labor Market"
2011-03-16 17:00

Panel: "Defending the American Dream: Government Enforcement of Workplace Rights in an Age of Income Inequality"
2011-03-16 00:00

"The South Korean Labor Movement: Recent Struggles and the Challenges of "Marginal" Workers"
2011-02-23 12:30

"Toward a Tripartite Labor Relations System with Chinese Characteristics"
2011-02-07 12:30

Film Screening - “Harvest of Loneliness: The Bracero Program”
2011-01-28 12:00
Hidden within the historical accounts of minorities, workers and immigrants in American society is the story of the millions of Mexico’s men and women who experienced the temporary contract worker program known as the Bracero Program. Established to replace an alleged wartime labor shortage, research reveals that the Program intended to undermine farmworker unionization. Harvest shows how several million men, in one of the largest state managed migrations in history, were imported from 1942 to 1964 to work as cheap, controlled and disposable workers. The documentary features the men speaking of their experiences and addresses what to expect from a new temporary contract worker program. Visit the film’s website for clips.

"Work-Family Conflict: A Parent's Problem"
2011-01-19 12:30
