Events

This is a worker-centered analysis of Apple, the world’s most profitable corporation, and its primary supplier, with more than one million workers in China alone, the world’s largest industrial employer, Foxconn. Apple's commercial triumph rests not only on its design and marketing supremacy but on the reversal of its original business model from producing computers […]

Young adults have long been overrepresented among political activists, and their generationally specific experiences and worldviews often shape social movement agendas. Although these phenomena have received limited scholarly attention in recent years, they are highly salient features of the new cycle of protest that has emerged in the 21st century United States. This talk analyzes […]

Are Uber Drivers and others who provide service in the On-Demand economy entitled to the employment rights, benefits, and protections that other employees enjoy? Or, are the “gig workers” actually independent contractors, entitled to no protection at all? If they are employees, they would get benefit of minimum wage and overtime laws, protection against discrimination, […]

This research forum takes a broad look at emerging issues of immigrant integration, incarceration, and low-wage work. Six very different researchers from four UC campuses will present their cutting-edge research, looking at the destructive effects of many policies currently in place, but also at alternatives to move toward economic and social justice.