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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:20240228T120000
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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:20231213T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231213T133000
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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:20231210T160000
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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:20231207T150000
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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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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:20231205T140000
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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:20231201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231201T173000
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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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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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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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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: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:20231024T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231024T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T113436
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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:20231020T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231020T200000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231019T134500
DTSTAMP:20260403T113436
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231010T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231010T200000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231006T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231006T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T113436
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230929T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230929T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T113436
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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 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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230609T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230609T130000
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SUMMARY:Labor Studies Internship Capstone Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our showcase of research completed by Labor Studies majors who took the internship capstone in the 2023 Winter/Spring quarters. \nDate: June 9th\, 2023\, 11 AM – 1 PM \nLocation: Moore Hall 1003 / Zoom \n  \nLoading…
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-studies-internship-capstone-presentations/
LOCATION:Moore Hall 1003
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230606T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230606T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T113436
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SUMMARY:Writing Workshop for Labor Studies: A Reading and Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a celebration featuring Labor Studies students reading their original work\, including poetry\, song\, memoir\, fiction\, and research! This event is part of LBRSTD 188-4\, Writing Workshop for Labor Studies\, a creative writing class for Labor Studies majors\, Labor Studies minors\, and other interested students. \nSpecial Guest: Author Saba Waheed\, Research Director\, UCLA Labor Center \nDate: Tuesday\, June 6th\, 6:30-8:00 pm. \nLocation: Rolfe Hall 3129 / Zoom \nRefreshments will be provided by Labor Studies. Hope to see you there! \nLoading…
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/writing-workshop-for-labor-studies-a-reading-and-celebration/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 3129
CATEGORIES:Labor Studies Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230605T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230605T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T113436
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SUMMARY:Labor Speaker Series | Labor and the Politics of Inflation\, Past and Present
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Labor and the Politics of Inflation\, Past and Present with Dr. Samir Sonti \nDate: Monday\, June 5th \nTime: 2 PM – 3:30 PM PT \nLocation: Chicano Studies Research Library/Zoom \n*Zoom information will be sent out in reminder email after you RSVP \nJoin us with Dr. Samir Sonti to discuss how the arrival of inflation during the pandemic has spurred considerable debate over both the causes of rising prices and the optimal means of achieving price stability. In the mid-twentieth century\, inflation stood as one of the most contested political issues\, and it was one with which the labor movement was\, by necessity\, deeply engaged. \nLoading…
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-speaker-series-labor-and-the-politics-of-inflation-past-and-present/
CATEGORIES:IRLE Speaker Event,Labor Studies Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230526T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230526T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T113436
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SUMMARY:Labor @ UCLA Research Summit
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of Undergraduate Research Week\, where students from all disciplines gather to share their innovative and impactful work with the UCLA community at events such as the Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase. \nSelected students for this summit will present past or current work developed for a capstone\, honors thesis\, or other Labor Studies and related classes. \nDate: Friday\, May 26th\nTime: 11 AM – 1 PM\nLocation: Public Affairs 2343 / Zoom \nLoading…
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-ucla-research-summit/
LOCATION:Public Affairs 2343
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230524T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230524T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T113436
CREATED:20230515T221213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230515T221213Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Dignidad
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to invite you to a special film screening of “Dignidad: California Domestic Workers’ Journey for Justice!” This documentary follows domestic workers as they organize for workplace protections during the COVID-19 pandemic.  \nJoin us as we celebrate the victories\, reflect on lessons learned\, and gear up to continue the fight for domestic worker health and safety.  \nDate: May 24th @ 6 PM \nLocation: Transfer Student Center (Kerckhoff 128) \nRSVP @ bit.ly/film-dignidad \nFor any questions\, feel free to reach out to us at: \nNeome Astudillo: neomegethsemane@g.ucla.edu\nWilliam Dang Nguyen: wdangnguyen@g.ucla.edu\nAbeeha Hussain: abeehahussain@ucla.edu
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/film-screening-dignidad/
LOCATION:Transfer Student Center (Kerckhoff 128)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T113436
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230424T214937Z
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SUMMARY:Behind the Scenes/Unheard Voices of the Strike
DESCRIPTION:In the Fall of 2022\, graduate student workers from the University of California participated in one of the largest strikes in higher education history. As a result\, student workers learned valuable lessons about feeding and sustaining one another on and off the picket lines. \nJoin us for a panel discussion about the work that often goes unrecognized behind the scenes with opening remarks by Rosie Stockton and Da In Choi. \n\n\nDate: Thursday\, May 4th\nTime: 5:00-6:30pm\nLocation: Public Affairs 1246\n\nLoading…
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/behind-the-scenes-unheard-voices-of-the-strike/
LOCATION:Public Affairs 1246
CATEGORIES:Labor Studies Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230501T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230501T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T113436
CREATED:20230425T183919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230425T184741Z
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SUMMARY:May Day 2023
DESCRIPTION:Join the May Day Coalition for the 2023 Los Angeles May Day March! This year’s theme is “Solidarity is Power: Right to Unionize\, Right to Strike\, Right to Housing\, & Right to Citizenship.” The event will bring people from all walks of life to stand in solidarity with one another and raise awareness of labor\, housing\, and immigration struggles across our city and the nation. \nMay 1st is International Workers Day or May Day.  Throughout the world\, communities not only dedicate this day to honor the struggles of workers\, but they also recognize other working-class issues. Each year\, the May Day Coalition in Los Angeles organizes one of the many marches which gather thousands of people\, organizations\, and supporters to bring awareness to the intersecting struggles of the working-class people of Los Angeles and the world. This year’s May Day march and rally theme will be “Solidarity is Power”: Right to Unionize\, Right to Strike\, Right to Housing\, & Right to Citizenship. You can find more information about the event\, including the program\, map\, and meeting spots if you want to join from downtown LA\, public transportation info\, checklist of what to bring… HERE.\nDATE: May 1\, 2023 \nTIME: We will meet 4 PM. The march begins at 5 PM. \nMARCH START LOCATION: Southwest corner of Olympic & Broadway\, Downtown Los Angeles \nPlease fill out this google form in case you would like to join our Labor@UCLA contingent in downtown LA for May Day.  We have confirmed a 50-passenger bus (leaving from UCLA to May Day and back) for students from our Labor Studies courses and allied undergraduate and graduate students to attend.  The sign-up list for the bus is first come\, first serve\, with students in Labor Studies 10 given priority.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/may-day-march-2023/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T113436
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230420T182511Z
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SUMMARY:Labor Studies Coffee Chat with Danette Garcia
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Labor Studies Coffee Chat with Danette Garcia\, LA City Attorney Director of Community & Government Affairs and UCLA Labor Studies alum \nDate: Thursday\, April 27th \nTime: 4 PM \nLocation: Bunche Hall 3164 \nJoin us for a Coffee Chat with LA City Attorney Director of Community & Government Affairs and UCLA Labor Studies alum\, Danette Garcia and moderated by Micaela Aragon\, Labor Studies major and communications work-study. This will be an informal space for students to ask questions about her position\, her journey to working for the LA City attorney\, experience working for campaigns\, and how Labor Studies played a role in her journey to where she is today. \nLoading…
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-studies-coffee-chat-with-danette-garcia/
LOCATION:Bunche Hall 3164
CATEGORIES:Labor Studies Events
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SUMMARY:Garment Workers Speak Out!
DESCRIPTION:When the pandemic hit\, US retailers canceled clothing orders abroad\, resulting in millions of garment workers being laid off without pay or severance. On April 27\, Chhorpesal Chhom and Sreymich Hai – who were fired from Hulu Garment factory in Cambodia\, where they sewed products for Amazon and Adidas – will visit the UCLA campus to speak about the wage theft and retaliation they endured\, and the need for accountability from major brands. Come speak directly with workers who produce your clothing and to learn about how you can support garment workers in their struggle for justice. \nWhen: April 27\, 2pm \nWhere: UCLA campus (RSVP for info) – livestream on zoom \nRSVP: nikesteals.com/ucla
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/garment-workers-speak-out/
CATEGORIES:Labor Studies Events
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SUMMARY:Labor Speaker Series | Critical Industrial Relations: centering social identity in our understanding of the employment relationship
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Critical Industrial Relations: centering social identity in our understanding of the employment relationship with Tamara Lee \nDate: Thursday\, April 20th \nTime: 2 PM – 3:30 PM PT \nLocation: Public Affairs 5391 (in-person)  \nHow does our understanding of employment practices and worker responses deepen or shift when we take a critical lens centered in the counternarratives of marginalized workers? Discussing her work on racialized worker control at Amazon’s fulfillment centers and contemporary uprisings for social and economic justice\, Professor Lee explores the opportunities for theory and praxis when we challenge traditional colorblind approaches to understand labor law\, employer tactics and worker responses to injustice inside and outside of the workplace. \nLoading…
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-speaker-series-critical-industrial-relations-centering-social-identity-in-our-understanding-of-the-employment-relationship/
LOCATION:Public Affairs 5391
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SUMMARY:UCLA homecoming celebration for California State Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Labor Center and the Center for the Advancement of Racial Equity at Work (CARE at Work) invite you to a UCLA homecoming celebration for California State Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas. \nPrior to being sworn in to represent California’s 28th Senate District\, Senator Smallwood-Cuevas worked at the UCLA Labor Center for 15 years where she directed the CARE at Work project and co-founded the LA Black Worker Center\, the country’s first Black worker center. \nThe LA Black Worker Center serves as a model for Black worker centers across the country that increase access to quality jobs\, reduce employment discrimination\, and improve industries that employ Black workers through action and unionization. \nJoin us to celebrate Senator Smallwood-Cuevas\, an educator\, labor organizer\, and community advocate who has dedicated her life to economic and racial justice\, and has advanced research\, education\, and community empowerment over the course of her career. \nRSVP Now \nPlease RSVP by March 8th \n  \nDate: \nMarch 10\, 2023 \nTime: \n1:00 – 2:00 PM PST \nLocation: \nCollins Alumni Conference Room at UCLA James West Alumni Center  \n325 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095 \nParking in Structure 8 \n  \nFor questions or concerns: \nContact Semi Cole at careatwork.UCLA@gmail.com and include the subject line “Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas Celebration.”
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/ucla-homecoming-celebration-for-california-state-senator-lola-smallwood-cuevas/
LOCATION:Collins Alumni Conference Room at UCLA James West Alumni Center
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