Join us on Wednesday, May 19 at 4PM PT as we premiere The Drivers – A Short Play About the Experiences of Uber/Lyft Drivers performed by students from Labor Studies 152, Winter 2021: Work, Social Justice and Arts taught by Professor Janna Shadduck-Hernández. Play Description During the height of the COVID 19 pandemic, four Uber drivers meet in the morning at […]
What is work life like after graduation? Interested in working for a non-profit organization connected to worker’s rights? Join us for our last virtual hangout of Spring Quarter, Tuesday, May 25th, from 11am-12pm to connect and have a stress-free, informal Q&A with UCLA Labor Studies recent UCLA graduate and Los Angeles Alliance for a New […]
On Thursday, May 27th activists from the UK, Spain, Italy and Belgium will join students from the UCLA Labor Studies Program to discuss recent developments in the global struggle for platform workers’ rights. In California, Uber, Lyft and DoorDash have invested more than $200 million to pass Proposition 22 by granting platform companies an exemption […]
Interested in hearing from activists and UCLA students working with migrants and defenders of asylum rights across borders? Join a town hall discussion of the UCLA Community Scholars Program, during the final session of this unique course at UCLA on Wednesday, June 2, 5 pm PT via Zoom. Community Scholars was launched in 1991 to […]
The UCLA Labor Summer Research Program research team invites you to the Workers and Learners Summer 2021 research findings webinar. Over the past 6-weeks, student researchers collected surveys and interviews about workers and learners' experiences as they prepare to return to school and work in the fall. We will review the research together, discuss key […]
Join us for our Labor Studies Information Session + Student Mixer! Learn about the Labor Studies Major & Minor and meet your faculty, staff, alumni, and fellow students! Date: September 22 from 10am-11am PT RSVP: https://bit.ly/laborstudieswelcome2021 Zoom link will be emailed to you after submitting this registration form.
What has the transition back to campus been like for you? What concerns do you have about the transition away from remote learning? What are you looking forward to this year? Join the labor studies student staff for the first virtual hangout of the year for a conversation surrounding the transition to in person learning. […]
Please join our UCLA Labor Studies community for Oral History for Social Change: Documenting the Lived Experience of Migrants Separated at the U.S./Mexico Border, an online guest speaker event featuring Fanny García, hosted by labor studies lecturer Virginia Espino. Fanny Julissa García is an award winning Honduran-American oral historian contributing work to Central American Studies. […]
Wonder what kind of research projects labor studies students are involved in? We invite you to our Week 6 Virtual Hangout with students who conduct research on the experiences of “workers and learners,” or those who both work and attend college in Los Angeles County. Join us to learn more about the researchers’ findings, have […]
Are you interested in interning or working at the California Labor Commissioner’s Office? Join us for a Career Chat to learn about how you can get involved! Special guests are UCLA alumna and Senior Deputy Labor Commissioner Jocelyn Lopez and Deputy Labor Commissioner Andres Herrera, who will share their experience with internships and tips for […]
