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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121101T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121101T134500
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SUMMARY:Death and Taxes (and other hot topics): Debating the 2012 California Ballot Propositions
DESCRIPTION:California voters face big decisions on the 2012 ballot initiatives. From tax policyto the death penalty to genetically modified food labeling\, a lot is at stake on the\nballot. Join us for an educational and informative forum to analyze the initiatives.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/death-and-taxes-and-other-hot-topics-debating-the-2012-california-ballot-propositions/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121017T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121017T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224718Z
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UID:1509-1350496800-1350507600@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Sea Change or More of the Same? Looking Beyond November 6: A Presidential Election Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:After the horse race is over and Election 2012 has been decided\, the business of governing is going to get very difficult very quickly. With budget cuts looming and taxes set to rise\, voters are struggling to understand competing visions for the future. Is a balanced compromise possible in an atmosphere of extreme partisanship? How does the rhetoric of an election year match our fiscal reality? \nJoin Mark Z. Barabak\, political writer for the Los Angeles Times; Sky Gallegos\, political strategist and experienced campaign veteran; Adam Nagourney\, Los Angeles bureau chief for The New York Times; Dan Schnur\, director of USC’s Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics; and Franklin D. Gilliam\, Jr.\, dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs for an engaging discussion that’s sure to enlighten and inform.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/sea-change-or-more-of-the-same-looking-beyond-november-6-a-presidential-election-panel-discussion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121004T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121004T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224718Z
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UID:1510-1349371800-1349379000@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:2012 Benjamin Aaron Labor Law LectureSeparate and Unequal: Arbitration and Private Justice
DESCRIPTION:Cliff Palefsky\, a dynamic speaker and leading critic of mandatory arbitration agreements\, will provide valuable insights from the plaintiff’s perspective on the “hot topic” of employment dispute arbitration. Mr. Palefsky has been in the forefront of the opposition to mandatory arbitration for the past 24 years in both the courts and the legislature. He has been involved in many of the leading arbitration cases\, and will reflect on the rapidly developing state of the law\, including the NLRB’s D.R Horton decision\, the state of class actions after AT&T v Concepcion\, the alternative dispute resolution industry\, the proposed Arbitration Fairness legislation\, and the implications of mandatory arbitration on civil justice in America.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/2012-benjamin-aaron-labor-law-lectureseparate-and-unequal-arbitration-and-private-justice/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120605T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120605T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224718Z
UID:1511-1338854400-1338854400@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Impact of Colonial Policies on Contemporary Educational Outcomes
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/impact-of-colonial-policies-on-contemporary-educational-outcomes/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120531T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120531T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224718Z
UID:1512-1338483600-1338496200@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Book Presentation - Just Neighbors? Research on African American and Latino Relations in the United States
DESCRIPTION:Editors Edward Telles\, Mark Sawyer and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado willbe joined by distinguished panelists to discuss how African Americans and Latinos relate to each\nother in contemporary American society and how these social interactions are transforming the US\npolitical\, cultural and labor landscapes. Just Neighbors? Research on African American and Latino\nRelations in the US is published by the Russell Sage Foundation\, 2011.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/book-presentation-just-neighbors-research-on-african-american-and-latino-relations-in-the-united-states/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120510T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120510T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224720Z
UID:1513-1336608000-1336608000@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:UCLA Labor Center 2012 Banquet
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/ucla-labor-center-2012-banquet/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120509T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120509T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224720Z
UID:1514-1336566600-1336573800@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:La restructuración de la Industria Siderúrgica en México
DESCRIPTION:Starting in the 1980s\, the Mexican government reduced its participation in the steel industry\, a sector which had been one of the engines of national economic growth.The government closed\, restructured and privatized large steel plants\, including Fundidora Monterrey in 1986\, Minera Cananea in 1989\, and Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA) and Siderúrgica Lázaro Cardenas-Las Truchas in 1991. Steel production played a highly significant role in Mexico’s industrialization\, driving the expansion of mining\, the formation of the working class and the rise of the labor movement. The\nrestructuring of the steel industry left thousands of workers jobless and without employment possibilities elsewhere.  In this presentation\,Professor Martínez analyzes the employment and unemployment experiences of former metallurgic workers from AHMSA and Fundidora Monterrey\nin the context of the restructuring of the steel sector\, the larger modernization and privatization of the national industrial base\, the dismantling\nwelfare provisions and the liberalization and globalization of the Mexican economy.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/la-restructuracion-de-la-industria-siderurgica-en-mexico/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120502T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120502T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224721Z
UID:1515-1335960000-1335967200@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Elasticity of Labor Supply to the Firm over the Business Cycle
DESCRIPTION:Recent work suggests that the labor elasticity of supply to the firm is finite. In other words\, labor markets are not perfectly competitive. We provide the first estimates of the degree of labor market imperfections over a long period of time with significant variation in the state of the macroeconomy. Using data from the Ford Motor Company from 1918 through 1940 we analyze the labor elasticity of supply to the firm over the business cycle. We find significant variation in this parameter over time and consistent with predictions from a simple search model we find evidence of it being procyclical. Our analysis also contributes two methodological extensions to the empirical monopsony literature. First\, we are able to relax the assumption that all employee separations in the firm are replaced by recruits. Second\, we use data that allows us to isolate workers who quit for voluntary reasons. Both have significant impacts on our estimates.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/the-elasticity-of-labor-supply-to-the-firm-over-the-business-cycle/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120428T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120428T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224721Z
UID:1516-1335571200-1335571200@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Worker's Memorial Day
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URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/workers-memorial-day/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120425T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224721Z
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UID:1517-1335357000-1335362400@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Human Persons\, Incompressible Needs and Minimum Wages in Post-war France
DESCRIPTION:The passage of minimum wage legislation in 1950 led to one of the odder chapters in the history of French bureaucratic committees. Paul Bacon\, Minister of Labor\, convened a High Commission on Collective Bargaining in April of that year to measure a model worker’s budget. Over thirty members strong\, the meeting assembled major leaders of all three unions\, representatives of large and small employers\, artisans\, managers\, family associations and a number of state bureaucrats. Over the following two months\, these men hashed out the principles and the practice of a new republican minimum standard of living. No point proved too fine for debate\, from theoretical reflections on science and measurement to the durability of underwear.The minimum wage commission appears an exemplary moment in postwar French consumer society. First\, it enacted a political contest between unions and employers\, mediated by the state and family associations. Second\, as it called upon expert testimony\, the commission participated in the emergence of an empirical\, policy-oriented postwar social science. Third\, the commission’s work reflected French citizens’ everyday struggle to reconcile scarce resources and expanding consumer desires
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/human-persons-incompressible-needs-and-minimum-wages-in-post-war-france/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120420T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120420T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224723Z
UID:1518-1334944800-1334955600@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Panel - Organizing Workers in the Informal Economy: Brazil\, China\, Mexico\, South Africa ... and Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:Across the globe\, workers in the informal economy are organizing — from trash recyclers in Brazil and day laborers in China\, to street vendors in Mexico and domestic workers in South Africa. Researchers from these countries will join labor activists from Los Angeles on a panel discussion about these and other organizing efforts\, and discuss how labor unions and governments have responded to these grassroots campaigns.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/panel-organizing-workers-in-the-informal-economy-brazil-china-mexico-south-africa-and-los-angeles/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120419T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120419T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224723Z
UID:1519-1334793600-1334793600@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Learning from the Past to Change the Future: 20 Years of Justice for Janitors
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URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/learning-from-the-past-to-change-the-future-20-years-of-justice-for-janitors/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120416T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120416T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224723Z
UID:1520-1334584800-1334595600@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Wisconsin and the Assault on the Public Sector
DESCRIPTION:What is the political background to the systematic attack on public sector unions\, and on the publicsector more generally\, in Wisconsin\, elsewhere in the Midwest\, and in other places in the US? To\nwhat extent does it have the support of the electorate and the broader public? Our speakers will\nconsider this issue in connection with their analysis of the historic explosion of working class\nresistance in Wisconsin in February 2011\, which broke a long period of labor quiescence in the US.\nThey will evaluate the role of the trade unions in this conflict\, asking if broader\, more militant\ntactics were a realistic option. They will discuss the recall campaign that emerged as the main form\nof carrying on the struggle\, asking what are its chances for success and what it can accomplish.\nThey will debate the future of the movement\, in connection with their understanding of the\nrelationship between the Wisconsin uprising and the Occupy movement that came to fore to\ncontinue struggle the eight months later…posing the question of what role can Occupy play in\ncatalyzing\, and supporting\, battles by the trade union movement and working people more\ngenerally.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/wisconsin-and-the-assault-on-the-public-sector/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120315T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120315T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224724Z
UID:1521-1331769600-1331769600@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:UCLA Lewis Center Informal City Series: Crystals\, Mud and Space: Street Vending Informality
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URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/ucla-lewis-center-informal-city-series-crystals-mud-and-space-street-vending-informality/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120308T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120308T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224724Z
UID:1522-1331164800-1331164800@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:UCLA Lewis Center Informal City Speakers Series: The Logical Reproduction of Informality among Low Income Self-Help Communities in the USA
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/ucla-lewis-center-informal-city-speakers-series-the-logical-reproduction-of-informality-among-low-income-self-help-communities-in-the-usa/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120306T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120306T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224725Z
UID:1523-1330992000-1330992000@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:IRLE Graduate Student Research Conference: Participatory Democracy and Social Justice Struggles: From Port Huron to #Occupy
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/irle-graduate-student-research-conference-participatory-democracy-and-social-justice-struggles-from-port-huron-to-occupy/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120301T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120301T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224725Z
UID:1524-1330560000-1330560000@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:UCLA Lewis Center Informal City Speakers Series: America's Playground: Informal Sociability Among Atlantic City's Street Homeless
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/ucla-lewis-center-informal-city-speakers-series-americas-playground-informal-sociability-among-atlantic-citys-street-homeless/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120223T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224726Z
UID:1525-1329955200-1329955200@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:UCLA Lewis Center Informal City Speakers Series: Place as a Site of World-Making
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/ucla-lewis-center-informal-city-speakers-series-place-as-a-site-of-world-making/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120222T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120222T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224726Z
UID:1526-1329913800-1329919200@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Book Talk - "NAFTA and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism"
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-nafta-and-the-politics-of-labor-transnationalism/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120216T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120216T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224726Z
UID:1527-1329350400-1329350400@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:UCLA Lewis Center Informal City Speakers Series: To Regulate or Not: Day Labor\, Worker Centers and Inequality
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/ucla-lewis-center-informal-city-speakers-series-to-regulate-or-not-day-labor-worker-centers-and-inequality/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120209T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120209T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224728Z
UID:1528-1328745600-1328745600@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:UCLA Lewis Center Informal City Speakers Series: Tending to Life and Plants in Los Angeles: Latino Immigrant Workers and Gardeners
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/ucla-lewis-center-informal-city-speakers-series-tending-to-life-and-plants-in-los-angeles-latino-immigrant-workers-and-gardeners/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120208T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120208T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224728Z
UID:1529-1328704200-1328709600@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Book Talk - "States' Gains\, Labor's Losses: China\, France\, Mexico Choose Global Liaisons\, 1980 - 2000"
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URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-states-gains-labors-losses-china-france-mexico-choose-global-liaisons-1980-2000/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224728Z
UID:1530-1328185800-1328191200@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:"Understanding the Brazilian Labor Success Story"
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/understanding-the-brazilian-labor-success-story/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T225404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T225404Z
UID:1564-1328169600-1328202000@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:UCLA Lewis Center Informal City Speakers Series: The Garage Sale
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/ucla-lewis-center-informal-city-speakers-series-garage-sale/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120126T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120126T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224729Z
UID:1532-1327536000-1327536000@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:UCLA Lewis Center Informal City Speakers Series: The Informal as Praxis
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/ucla-lewis-center-informal-city-speakers-series-the-informal-as-praxis/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120119T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120119T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224730Z
UID:1533-1326931200-1326931200@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:UCLA Lewis Center Informal City Speakers Series: Together - The Rituals\, Pleasures\, and Politics of Cooperation
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/ucla-lewis-center-informal-city-speakers-series-together-the-rituals-pleasures-and-politics-of-cooperation/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120112T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120112T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224730Z
UID:1535-1326378600-1326384000@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Book Talk: "Urban Sustainability in the Age of Climate Justice: Lessons from Metro Phoenix"
DESCRIPTION:Thoughtful people look to cities for evidence that progress is being made in the fight to avert climate change. The “sustainable cities” movement is thriving all across the world\, and mayors compete for the title of “greenest city in America.” In this lecture\, drawing on his own research in the metro Phoenix area\, Andrew Ross shows that the key solutions are more social than technical in nature. Marketing a green lifestyle to affluent residents will create showpiece sustainable enclaves\, but will not alter the patterns of “eco-apartheid” that afflicts most large U.S. cities.\nRoss’s new book\, Bird On Fire\, based on extensive interviews in the region\, looks at some of Phoenix’s biggest challenges–water management\, urban growth\, immigration policy\, pollution\, energy supply\, and downtown revitalization–in light of his arguments for policies that promote environmental justice.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-urban-sustainability-in-the-age-of-climate-justice-lessons-from-metro-phoenix/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120112T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120112T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224730Z
UID:1534-1326371400-1326376800@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:"Working for Nothing: The Latest Fast-Growth Sector?"
DESCRIPTION:Corporate profits have never been higher\, at a time when the real unemployment has soared.  Have bosses learned how to get by without workers? Not really\, but the evidence suggests a growing reliance on new kinds of free labor to boost the balance sheet of companies that are canny enough to harvest it. Free\, or token-wage\, labor is increasingly available though a variety of channels: crowdsourcing\, data-mining\, prosumerism\,  or other sophisticated digital techniques for extracting rents from user/participants; expanded prison labor programs; the explosion of unpaid near-obligatory internships in every white-collar sector; and the whole gamut of contestant volunteering that has transformed so much of our commerce in culture into an amateur talent show\, with jackpot stakes for a few winners and hard-luck schwag for everyone else.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/working-for-nothing-the-latest-fast-growth-sector/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111201T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111201T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224730Z
UID:1536-1322748000-1322753400@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Who is Occupy? Profile of Users of the Occupy Wall Street Website: A Window into the Demographics of an Evolving Movement
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/who-is-occupy-profile-of-users-of-the-occupy-wall-street-website-a-window-into-the-demographics-of-an-evolving-movement/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111116T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111116T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144600
CREATED:20170302T224731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T224731Z
UID:1537-1321466400-1321466400@irle.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Annual Ben Aaron Labor Law Lecture: "Rhetoric\, Reaction and Rule of Law at the NLRB"
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Wilma Liebman\, former Chair of the National Labor Relations Board\nFrom Wisconsin to Capitol Hill\, we have witnessed an escalating battle over the very legitimacy of labor law and existence of collective bargaining rights. The political and economic environment in which this conflict is occurring has ratcheted up the attacks and overheated the rhetoric\, exposing a divide as profound as any on the domestic policy front. While the NLRB\, from the beginning\, has been no stranger to controversy\, events of the last few years have represented a record accumulation of difficulties. Recent actions by the Board and its Acting General Counsel\, including efforts to revitalize the Agency and its procedures\, have triggered intense reactions by Congress\, the business community\, and the media.  While the imperative for a sober dialogue over a fair labor policy could not be more real\, what we have instead is rancorous political rhetoric.\nFormer NLRB Chairman Wilma Liebman will discuss the Board’s recent activities\, the political controversy they have triggered\, and the persistent challenges to the enduring values of the National Labor Relations Act — including the rule of law itself — all critical to a democratic society and a fair economy.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/annual-ben-aaron-labor-law-lecture-rhetoric-reaction-and-rule-of-law-at-the-nlrb/
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