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SUMMARY:Labor Speaker Series | “Is Formalization the Answer? Is Informality the Problem?” Waste Picker Rights Policy in São Paolo and Bogotá with Manuel Rosaldo
DESCRIPTION:Topic: “Is Formalization the Answer? Is Informality the Problem?” Waste Picker Rights Policy in São Paolo and Bogotá\nDate: Thursday\, October 13th\nTime: 3:00pm – 4:30pm PT\nLocation: Luskin School of Public Affairs Faculty Lounge\, Room 5391\n\nUnder what circumstances does the formalization of informal jobs lead to pro-worker outcomes\, and when might formalization intensify workers’ exploitation or deprive them of work altogether? Drawing on 24 months of ethnographic field research\, this presentation analyzes two ambitious efforts to integrate informal waste pickers into formal waste management. This research finds that formalization policies in Bogotá\, Colombia elevated the incomes\, conditions\, and voice of thousands of waste pickers\, whereas parallel efforts in the seemingly more favorable context of São Paulo\, Brazil did not. Ultimately\, these differential outcomes hinged on waste pickers’ levels of power to shape policy design and implementation. \n\nGuest Speaker: Manuel Rosaldo\, Assistant Professor of Labor Relations and Sociology\, The Pennsylvania State University\nLoading…
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-speaker-manuel/
CATEGORIES:IRLE Speaker Event,Labor Studies Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T134500
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SUMMARY:Symposium on Academic Labor
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Symposium on Academic Labor\nDate: Monday\, October 31st and Wednesday\, November 2 \nTime: 12:30pm – 1:45pm PT\nLocation: Various \n  \nWhy are the majority of college teachers low wage temps\, and how can academic workers organize to fight back? Representatives from UAW 2865 and Higher Education Labor United will answer these and other questions about how labor activism on college campuses can contribute to the development of a more militant labor movement in the U.S.\n\nJoin us on Monday\, Oct. 31 and Wednesday\, Nov. 2 between 12:30–1:45 p.m. for a Symposium on Academic Labor hosted by Trevor Griffey in his LBR STD 188: Labor and Public Higher Education: Campus Workers\, Working Students\, and Public Good class. \nLoading…
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/symposium-on-academic-labor/2022-10-31/
CATEGORIES:Labor Studies Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221108T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221108T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140343
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SUMMARY:Death and Dying in Diaspora: Book Talk with Allan Isaac (Rutgers University)
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 8\, 2022\n4:00 PM – 5:30 PM (Pacific Time)\n10383 Bunche Hall \nIn his new book Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor\, Allan Isaac examines how contracted service labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines\, Europe\, the Middle East\, and the United States generates vital affects\, multiple networks\, and other life-worlds as much as it disrupts and dislocates human relations.Affective labor and time are re-articulated in a capacious archive of storytelling about the Filipino labor diaspora in fiction\, musical performance\, ethnography\, and documentary film. Exploring these cultural practices\, Filipino Time traces other ways of sensing\, making sense of\, and feeling time with others\, by weaving narratives of place and belonging out of the hostile but habitable textures of labor-time. \nSignaling his current research project in this talk\, Isaac explores live-streamed funeral vigils\, a technological practice made necessary by Filipino diasporic life\, to highlight two Tagalog concept-words that map other ways to generate ecologies of communality: pakiramdam (literally\, to make oneself felt\, or to feel a presence)\, affective engagement without immediate proximity; andkapiling\, to be in someone’s proximity or vicinity without interaction between two parties. Migrant subjects harness time and the imagination in their creative\, life-making capacities to make communal worlds out of one steeped in the temporalities and logics of capital. \nAllan Punzalan Isaac is Professor of American Studies and English and Associate Humanities Dean at Rutgers University-New Brunswick\, NJ. He specializes in Asian American and comparative race studies and examines issues around migration\, postcoloniality\, gender and sexuality\, and the Philippines and its diaspora. His first book American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America was the recipient of the Association for Asian American Studies Cultural Studies Book Award. His second book is entitled\, Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor. He has taught at DeLaSalle University-Taft in Manila\, Philippines as a Senior Fulbright Scholar.  His current research focuses on death and dying in the Filipino diaspora. \nSponsored by UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Department of Asian American Studies. With support from the Asian American Studies Center\, Office of Instructional Services\, Center for the Study of Women/Barbara Streisand Center\, UCLA Labor Center\, and Labor Studies Program. \nRSVP HERE\nFollowing the talk\, Professor Isaac will conduct a short workshop with graduate students. Students can sign up for the graduate workshop here and upload a 2-3 page project abstract. \n 
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/death-and-dying-in-diaspora-book-talk-with-allan-isaac-rutgers-university/
LOCATION:UCLA Bunche Hall 10383
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T143000
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SUMMARY:Labor Speaker Series | “Roots of Resistance: A Story of Gender\, Race\, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras” Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:Topic: “Roots of Resistance: A Story of Gender\, Race\, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras” Book Talk\nDate: Thursday\, November 10\nTime: 1:00pm – 2:30pm PT\nLocation: UCLA Young Research Library\, Presentation Room\, Room 11348\n\nJoin us for a Book Talk with Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda\, author of Roots of Resistance: A Story of Gender\, Race\, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras.\n\nOn May 1\, 1954\, striking banana workers on the North Coast of Honduras brought the regional economy to a standstill\, invigorating the Honduran labor movement and placing a series of demands on the US-controlled banana industry. Their actions ultimately galvanized a broader working-class struggle and reawakened long-suppressed leftist ideals. The first account of its kind in English\, Roots of Resistance explores contemporary Honduran labor history through the story of the great banana strike of 1954 and centers the role of women in the narrative of the labor movement.\n\nDrawing on extensive firsthand oral history and archival research\, Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda highlights the complexities of transnational company hierarchies\, gender and race relations\, and labor organizing that led to the banana workers strike and how these dynamics continue to reverberate in Honduras today.\n\nGuest Speaker: Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda\, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Latina/o Transnational Studies\, Pitzer College\n\nLoading…
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-speaker-suyapa/
LOCATION:UCLA Young Research Library\, Presentation Room\, Room 11348
CATEGORIES:IRLE Speaker Event,Labor Studies Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221115T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221115T143000
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SUMMARY:Summer Internship Opportunities for Graduate and Undergraduate UCLA Students at U.S. GAO: Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Summer Internship Opportunities for Graduate and Undergraduate UCLA Students at U.S. GAO\nDate: Tuesday\, November 15\nTime: 1:30pm – 2:30pm PT\nLocation: Zoom\n\nThe U.S. Government Accountability Office\, or GAO is an independent\, nonpartisan agency within the legislative branch that advises Congress about ways to make the federal government more efficient\, effective\, ethical\, equitable\, and responsive. Join us in this information session on summer internship opportunities for UCLA Graduate and Undergraduate Students at the U.S. GAO next summer!\n\nTo RSVP: log in to Handshake and search for “U.S. Government Accountability Office Info Session” on November 15\, 2022.\nTo join the meeting: CLICK HERE! 
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/summer-internship-opportunities-for-graduate-and-undergraduate-ucla-students-at-u-s-gao-information-session/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Labor Studies Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221116T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221116T134500
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SUMMARY:Symposium on Academic Labor: Campus Workers Campaigns for Living Wages and Dignity at UC has been canceled.
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Symposium on Academic Labor: Campus Workers Campaigns for Living Wages and Dignity at UC\nDate: Wednesday\, November 16\nTime: 12:30pm – 1:45pm PT\nLocation: Fowler A139\n\nOrganizers and member leaders from AFSCME 3299–the union that represents 27\,000 service and clerical workers at the University of California–will discuss their recent campaigns for living wages\, dignity at work\, workplace safety\, and against UC attempts to outsource union jobs to anti-union contractors.\nJoin us on Wednesday\, Nov. 16 between 12:30–1:45 p.m. for another Symposium on Academic Labor event hosted by Trevor Griffey in his LBR STD 188: Labor and Public Higher Education: Campus Workers\, Working Students\, and Public Good class. \nLoading…
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/symposium-on-academic-labor-campus-workers-campaigns-for-living-wages-and-dignity-at-uc/
LOCATION:Fowler A139
CATEGORIES:Labor Studies Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221201T124500
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SUMMARY:Information Session: Career Opportunities at the Labor Commissioner's Office and Department of Industrial Relations (Cancelled)
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Career Opportunities at the Labor Commissioner’s Office and Department of Industrial Relations\nDate: Thursday\, December 1st\nTime: 11:30am – 12:45pm PT\nLocation: 279 Haines Hall \nJoin us on December 1st\, 2022 with California State Labor Commissioner\, Lilia Garcia-Brower for an in-person information session on career opportunities and pathways within the Labor Commissioner’s Office and Department of Industrial Relations. \nLUNCH PROVIDED* \nLoading…
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/information-session-career-opportunities-at-the-labor-commissioners-office-and-department-of-industrial-relations/
LOCATION:Haines Hall 279
CATEGORIES:Labor Studies Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140343
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SUMMARY:Labor Speaker Series | “How To Make a Revolution: A Conversation About the Past\, Present\, and Future of Radical Labor” Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nTopic: How To Make a Revolution: A Conversation About the Past\, Present\, and Future of Radical Labor with Christina Heatherton \nDate: Tuesday\, February 14 \nTime: 10 AM – 12 PM PT \nLocation: 10383 Bunche Hall (in-person) and on Zoom \nJoin Dr. Heatherton for a conversation about her book and what lessons it may contain for contemporary labor and movement organizing strategy. The Mexican Revolution was a global event that catalyzed international radicals in unexpected sites and struggles. From art collectives and farm worker strikes to prison “universities\,” Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution (UC Press\, 2022) considers how disparate revolutionary traditions merged in unanticipated alliances. \nModerated by: Maga Miranda\, Doctoral Candidate in Chicana/o and Central American Studies. \nZOOM RSVP: bit.ly/laborspeaker-heatherton   \nIn-Person RSVP: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLoading…
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-speaker-series-how-to-make-a-revolution-a-conversation-about-the-past-present-and-future-of-radical-labor-book-talk/
LOCATION:Bunche Hall 10383
CATEGORIES:IRLE Speaker Event,Labor Studies Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230222T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230222T170000
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CREATED:20230214T202222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T185806Z
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SUMMARY:We Gon' Be Alright Class Virtual Open House
DESCRIPTION:Topic: We Gon’ Be Alright Class Virtual Open House \nDate: Wednesday\, February 22nd \nTime: 4:00pm – 5:00pm PT \nLocation: Zoom \nUCLA’s Center for the Advancement of Racial Equity (CARE) at Work in collaboration with the Labor Studies Department is excited to announce our Virtual Open House on Wednesday\, February 22nd\, 4:00 – 5:00 PM for CARE’s cross-campus course\, We Gon’ Be Alright: Developing the Next Generation of Black Organizers. \n\nJoin us as we dive into the importance of labor and organizing in the greater movement for Black Worker Justice and explore new program partnerships (summer internship opportunities) offered by UCLA’s CARE.\nLoading…
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/info-session-for-afam-lbr-std-m115-with-kendrick-roberson/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Labor Studies Events,Virtual Hangout
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140343
CREATED:20221116T204452Z
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SUMMARY:Labor Studies Coffee Chat with Chris Zepeda-Millán\, Chair of the UCLA Labor Studies Program
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Labor Studies Coffee Chat with Chris Zepeda-Millán\, Chair of the UCLA Labor Studies Program \nDate: Wednesday\, March 1 \nTime: 1:30 – 2:30 PM PT \nLocation: Public Affairs 2284 \nJoin us on Wednesday\, March 1 between 1:30 – 12:30 p.m. for a coffee chat with Chris Zepeda-Millán\, Chair of the UCLA Labor Studies Program. This is a casual informal event to allow Labor Studies students to connect with the Chair and the program overall.  \nLoading… \n 
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-studies-coffee-chat-with-chris-zepeda-millan-chair-of-the-ucla-labor-studies-program/
LOCATION:Public Affairs 2284
CATEGORIES:Labor Studies Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140343
CREATED:20230222T183440Z
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SUMMARY:Labor Speaker Series | "Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA" Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA with Nadia Y. Kim \nDate: Wednesday\, March 1st \nTime: 3:30 PM – 5 PM PT \nLocation: 10383 Bunche Hall (in-person) and on Zoom \n“Refusing Death” examines race\, class\, gender and citizenship with respect to the growing social phenomenon of marginalized and unauthorized immigrants – especially women and youth – making political inroads by way of grassroots activism\, at times\, sidestepping the need for formal political channels. By way of nearly four years of ethnographic observation\, in-depth interviews\, and documents analysis of Asian American and Latin@ environmental justice activism in the industrial-port belt of Los Angeles\, she finds that these mostly female immigrant activists view their work as much more than an effort to spare their children’s lungs from the gray plumes of cargo ships and oil refineries; they are also redefining notions of politics\, community\, and citizenship in the face of America’s nativist racism and its system of class injustice\, defined by disproportionate pollution and neglected schools\, surveillance/deportation\, and political marginalization. \nBy inventively dovetailing all of these dimensions\, the women show that they are highly conscious of how environmental and educational harms are an assault on their bodies and emotions; hence\, they center embodied and affective strategies to uniquely challenge the neoliberal state’s neglect and betrayal and\, ultimately\, to refuse death. \nRegister for Zoom webinar: https://bit.ly/Kim-Webinar \nRSVP for reception: https://bit.ly/4033mp6
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-speaker-series-refusing-death-immigrant-women-and-the-fight-for-environmental-justice-in-la-book-talk/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230307T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230307T130000
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SUMMARY:Information Session: Career Opportunities at the Labor Commissioner's Office and Department of Industrial Relations
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Career Opportunities at the Labor Commissioner’s Office and Department of Industrial Relations \nDate: Tuesday\, March 7th \nTime: 11:30am – 1:00pm PT \nLocation: Haines Hall Rm. 144 \nJoin us on March 7th\, 2022 with California State Labor Commissioner\, Lilia Garcia-Brower for an in-person information session on career opportunities and pathways within the Labor Commissioner’s Office and Department of Industrial Relations. \nLUNCH PROVIDED* \nLoading…
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/information-session-career-opportunities-at-the-labor-commissioners-office-and-department-of-industrial-relations-2/
LOCATION:CSRC Library- Haines 144
CATEGORIES:Labor Studies Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230310T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230310T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140344
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T153000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T160000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T173000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230501T183000
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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:20230504T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140344
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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:20230524T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230524T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140344
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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:20230526T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230526T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140344
CREATED:20230512T182449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230512T182527Z
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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:20230605T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230605T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140344
CREATED:20230515T224924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230525T184358Z
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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:20230606T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230606T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140344
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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:20230609T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230609T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140344
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230531T165835Z
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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:20230927T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230927T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140344
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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:20230929T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230929T120000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231006T120000
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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: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:20231019T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231019T134500
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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: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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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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