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SUMMARY:Labor Studies Now - Frame Backfire: The Trouble with Civil Rights Appeals in the Contemporary United States
DESCRIPTION:Frame Backfire: The Trouble with Civil Rights Appeals in the Contemporary United States \nWhile many scholars and activists consider civil rights to be a powerful\, effective way to frame diverse causes in the United States\, little is known about the contemporary resonance of civil rights appeals. In this talk\, I will argue that civil rights can be understood in three non-mutually exclusive ways: as a “master” frame that appeals to core American ideals\, as a reference to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement\, and as racialized messaging. Drawing on survey experiments conducted at two different points in time\, I will show that respondents express highly positive views of civil rights and broad agreement that civil rights are about equal rights. Yet\, framing a person’s contemporary problems—including unequal treatment at work—as civil rights violations reduces support for government intervention.  Civil rights framing is counterproductive across diverse issues\, beneficiaries\, and audiences. These findings complicate dominant assumptions about frame resonance\, cannot be adequately explained through a racialized backlash account\, and carry implications for collective memory scholars and activists. In closing\, I will reflect on why the public responds negatively to civil rights appeals despite positive sentiment toward the abstract idea. \nSpeaker biography: Kim Voss is professor of sociology at the University of California\, Berkeley\, specializing in the study of labor\, social movements\, inequality\, and higher education.  In addition to publishing in academic journals in sociology\, political science\, and demography\, she has written or edited six books\, including Rallying for Immigrant Rights (2011\, with I. Bloemraad)\, Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement (2006\, with R. Fantasia)\, Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth (1996\, with five Berkeley colleagues)\, and The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century (1993). She is currently working on a book about immigration and social movements. \nDate: March 5 \, 2026\nTime: 12 – 1:30 pm\nLocation: Rolfe Hall 2125\nRSVP HERE!
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-studies-now-frame-backfire-the-trouble-with-civil-rights-appeals-in-the-contemporary-united-states/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 2125
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SUMMARY:UCLA Industry Power Research Bootcamp
DESCRIPTION:Industry Power Research Bootcamp\nConvened by the UCLA Strategic Research Lab\nJoin the labor and other social movement researchers from around the country to learn the best ways to approach industry-based research and apply your findings to build industry-wide power. \nAs the NLRB continues to come under attack\, unions and other labor groups that organize are increasingly looking at industries\, not companies. To succeed\, we need to understand how industries work and what powers and limitations come with a sectoral approach to campaigning. \nIn this five-day training\, you will learn the basics of how to research an industry and explain your findings to members and other staff. We will bring expert campaigners to discuss key aspects of sectoral research\, including: \n\nBounding your industry and understanding the product\nHow to think about supply chains\nSpatial concentration and its effects on bosses and workers\nIntersections between your industry and government regulators and policymakers\nConsiderations behind sectoral standards campaigns\n\nThe camp is designed for any movement researchers\, strategic campaigners\, activists\, or organizers wanting to better understand how to think about sector-wide strategies. \nThe 2026 Industry Research Power Bootcamp applications window has closed. Stay tuned for information about future camps offered by the UCLA Strategic Research Lab and our annual Strategic Labor Research Conference! \n\nAbout The UCLA Strategic Research Lab:\nThe UCLA Strategic Research Lab is a capacity-building training hub and network for researchers from labor and community-based organizations. As a research unit of a public university\, the SRL seeks to train strategic researchers for the common good. Besides the Coding Camp for Union Research\, the Strategic Research Lab also holds its annual Strategic Labor Research Conference\, one of the largest annual convenings of labor and movement researchers in the nation.  \nSign up for email updates for other Strategic Research Lab events and trainings here. 
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/ucla-industry-power-bootcamp/
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Steven W. Thrasher on The Overseer Class\, In Conversation with Robin D.G. Kelley
DESCRIPTION:Date: April 23\, 2026\nTime: 4 P.M.\nLocation: Royce Hall 314 \nSteven W. Thrasher\, PhD\, will talk about his new book The Overseer Class (Amistad/HarperCollins\, 2025). Based upon his reporting on the Black Lives Matter movement since he was covering Ferguson in 2014\, Thrasher writes of observing an “overseer class” of Black cops\, gay prosecutors\, and people from marginalized background who amass their power by cracking the skulls of their own. \n 
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-steven-w-thrasher-on-the-overseer-class-in-conversation-with-robin-d-g-kelley/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314
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SUMMARY:May Day Teach-In and Poster Session
DESCRIPTION:Date: Monday\, April 27th\nTime: 4:30-6:30 poster session to follow 6:30-6:50pm\nLocation: TBD \nJoin us for a May Day Teach-In and Poster Session\, taking place from 4:30–6:30 PM\, followed by a poster session from 6:30–6:50 PM. \nThis event will take place as part of Rosemarie Molina’s class\, though all students are welcome and encouraged to attend. \nFeatured speakers:Chris Zepeda-Millán (Labor Studies/Public Affairs/Chicana/o & Central American Studies)\, Becky Ronquillo (CARECEN)\, and Nelson Motto (SEIU USWW).
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/may-day-teach-in-and-poster-session/
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SUMMARY:May Day March
DESCRIPTION:Date: Friday\, May 1st\nTime: 10 AM\nLocation: MacArthur Park \nThis May 1st\, join us at MacArthur Park at 10 AM and march alongside workers from every sector\, trade\, and craft. \nThis year’s message is clear: Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo. Come out and be part of LA’s annual May Day march! 📢 \nStudents — we’re working on a bus from UCLA to MacArthur Park and back\, plus a teach-in and poster-making session before the march. More details coming soon.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/may-day-march/
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SUMMARY:Labor Studies NOW Presents: Book Panel on Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest
DESCRIPTION:Labor Studies NOW Speaker Series\nJennifer Jihye Chun and Ju Hui Judy Han\nAgainst Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest \nDate: Thursday\, May 14th\nTime: 12-1 PM\nLocation: 10383 Bunche Hall \nModerator: Tobias Higbie \nDiscussants: Jong Bum Kwon\, Hannah Appel\, Zeynep Korkman \nOrganized by: Department of Labor Studies\, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment\, and Center for Korean Studies \nAbout the book\nAgainst Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest (Stanford University Press\, 2025) offers insight into the utility and futility of protesting precarity under neoliberal capitalism. Based on long-term ethnographic research and in-depth interviews with key labor and social movement activists\, the book follows the protests of minoritized workers\, especially women employed in precarious jobs\, as they contend with what it means to be treated as disposable and what it takes to resist. Long-term protest camps\, life-threatening hunger strikes\, grueling prostrations\, perilous high-altitude occupations are agonizing to perform and to witness but often powerful as affective catalysts of change. Through dramatic performances and rituals that repeat across time and space\, Against Abandonment finds that protesters cultivate repertoires of solidarity as a relational force that binds people and worlds together in a collective praxis of refusal. In doing so\, Against Abandonment builds upon intersectional\, transnational\, and abolitionist feminist theorizing that has long emphasized the centrality of building relations of care and community in place-based struggles against capitalist abandonment. \nAbout the authors\nJennifer Jihye Chun is Professor of Asian American Studies and Labor Studies at UCLA. She is the author of Organizing at the Margins: the Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States (2009) and co-author of Against Abandonment: Repertoires Solidarity in South Korean Protest (2025). She is the Interim Chair of the Department of Labor Studies and has a faculty teaching appointment in the International Institute. \nJu Hui Judy Han is Associate Professor in Gender Studies at UCLA. Han is the author of Queer Throughlines: Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora (2025) and co-author of Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest (2025). She is currently working on a decolonial travel guide to Korea and a new project on the “feminist take” on contemporary cultural politics.  \nAbout the panelists\nHannah Appel is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies and Associate Faculty Director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. She is the author of The Licit Life of Capitalism (2019) and co-author of Can’t Pay\, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition (2020). Appel is a co-founder and organizer with the Debt Collective. \nTobias Higbie is Professor of History and Labor Studies and the Director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) at UCLA. He is a labor historian whose research explores the intersection of work\, migration\, and social movement organizing in the United States. He is the author of Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest\, 1880-1930 (2003) and Labor’s Mind: a History of Working-Class Intellectual Life (2019). \nZeynep Korkman is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at UCLA.  Her research explores the gendered relationships between affect\, labor\, religion\, and transnational feminist politics\, with a focus on Turkey and the broader Middle East. She is the author of Gendered Fortunes: Divination\, Precarity\, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey (2023). Her ongoing research investigates the affective and laborious contents and discontents of transnational feminist solidarity. \nJong Bum Kwon is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Webster University. His research interests include cultural anthropology\, urban studies\, globalization\, race and ethnicity\, ethnographic methods\, with a focus on contemporary Korean labor and capitalism and Asians in America. His current research projects focus on the dilemma of whiteness in St. Louis\, MO\, in the wake of the Ferguson Uprising and Black youth’s aspirations and social mobility in the time of BLM and white nativism. 
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-studies-now-presents-book-panel-on-against-abandonment-repertoires-of-solidarity-in-south-korean-protest/
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SUMMARY:UCLA Coding Bootcamp for Union Research
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Strategic Research Lab will hold a five-day intensive training in using the power of Python coding to simplify tasks for union research. The camp will be held from June 8-12\, 2026\, and applications will open in late February.  \nApplications for Coding Bootcamp are now live! \nThe Coding Bootcamp is an intense and challenging experience! Come ready to jump feet first into a weeklong journey towards simplifying your work\, discovering new data sources\, and automating your most routine research tasks! \nKey Training Topics:\n\nPython fundamentals\nDynamically moving and combining multiple files\nFuzzy matching different data sets\nUse APIs to bulk download data\, such as open government data\nScraping websites to collect data\, such as:\n\nproperty listings\,\ncompany information\,\ngovernment data\,\npdfs\, and\ndata sets that cannot be downloaded directly\n\n\nCleaning\, merging\, and deduplicating data  such as worker lists\, property records\, or company information\nUsing text patterns to extract data\n\nWho should apply \nThis course is designed for union or movement researchers that often encounter large amounts of data in the course of their work. The skills taught in this course will allow students to collect\, process\, and analyze data more efficiently and accurately. \nThis course does not cover topics such as databases (i.e. SQL)\, advanced data analysis (i.e. statistics and data modeling)\, machine learning\, or extracting text from PDFs–these are advanced topics that cannot be covered in the time we have\, but students will have a solid Python foundation and can work on self-teaching these topics after the course. \nPrior coding experience is not required to attend this course. However\, all accepted students must participate in a short\, self-paced python pre-course. We will also cover Python fundamentals together in class.  \n\nAdvice From the 2025 Coding Bootcamp Cohort:\n“You should definitely attend this program if you’re thinking about it! This program really helps make coding feel so much more accessible no matter how much experience you have coming in. I have learned so many different ways to use coding to make my work so much more efficient and comprehensive.” \n“It is like drinking out of a firehouse. That’s just the way this sort of thing works. Keeping a good attitude and accepting that you will be challenged is extremely crucial to being successful.” \n“I have learned so much and feel so much more capable in the work I do.” \n\nEvent Details:\n\nDates: June 8-12\, 2026\nTime: Monday-Friday\, 8am-6pm\nLocation: UCLA James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center\, Los Angeles\nCost: $850 (includes training materials & refreshments)\nMeals: Not included\, but local dining options are available\n\n\nThe Instructor: Mellissa Chang\n \nMellissa Chang (she/hers) is freelance campaign researcher and data engineer. She conducts data-informed campaign research and builds data tools for labor unions and non-profits. Prior to this\, she was a research coordinator at the Private Equity Stakeholder Project\, where she tracked and analyzed eviction data and acquisitions to support tenant organizing campaigns around the country. During the pandemic\, she closely tracked covid relief spending\, identifying parent recipients and matching recipients to a database of federal regulatory violations\, earning her the DC Femme Tech Award in 2021. Before entering the non-profit sphere\, she worked as an airports campaign researcher at 32BJ. Mellissa holds a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. In her spare time\, she builds automated mass transit systems in Minecraft. \n  \nApplication details \nThis application includes a short diagnostic test. The results of this test are only used to help design the course and are NOT factored into your application assessment. \nThis course is rigorous and fast-paced. By applying to this course\, you pledge to remain focused and engaged\, and to ask for help when needed. \nApplications close on March 21\, 2026. Accepted candidates will be notified shortly after this deadline. Space is limited. \n\n\n\nEmail srl@irle.ucla.edu for more information or if you have any questions. \n\nAbout The UCLA Strategic Research Lab:\nThe UCLA Strategic Research Lab is a capacity-building training hub and network for researchers from labor and community-based organizations. As a research unit of a public university\, the SRL seeks to train strategic researchers for the common good. Besides the Coding Camp for Union Research\, the Strategic Research Lab also holds its annual Strategic Labor Research Conference\, one of the largest annual convenings of labor and movement researchers in the nation.  \nSign up for email updates for other Strategic Research Lab events and trainings here.  \n 
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/ucla-coding-camp-for-union-research/
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