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SUMMARY:Book Talk with Timothy A. Wise
DESCRIPTION:IRLE Colloquia Series presents: \nIn conversation with  Timothy A. Wise about his new book\, Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness\, Family Farmers\, and the Battle for the Future of Food\, New Press. \nJoin author\, Timothy A. Wise on a worldwide journey to understand the continued prevalence of hunger amid plenty. If the world now has record levels of grain production\, why does it also have rising indices of hunger and malnutrition? Wise makes a convincing case that increasing the industrial production of agricultural commodities does almost nothing for the world’s hungry. Oddly enough\, it can even make them hungrier. \nHe argues that agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests. Rather than helping the hungry eat today\, they are undermining sustainable food production and destroying the natural resources—land\, air\, water\, climate—we all will need to eat tomorrow. \nFor more information\, visit http://bit.ly/TimothyAWise. \nTimothy A. Wise is a senior researcher at the Small Planet Institute\, where he directs the Land and Food Rights Program. He is also a senior research fellow at Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute\, where he founded and directed its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program. He previously served as executive director of the U.S.-based aid agency Grassroots International. He is the author of Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness\, Family Farmers\, and the Battle for the Future of Food (The New Press) and Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico. He lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. \n\nThe 2019-2020 Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) colloquia series aims to convene faculty\, students\, and special guests to discuss multidisciplinary research and policy issues impacting workers and their families today.\n\n\n \n\n\nThe Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) houses the Labor Studies academic program and three units – UCLA Labor Center\, Human Resources Roundtable\, and the Labor Occupational Safety and Health program. IRLE forms wide-ranging research agendas that carry UCLA into the Los Angeles community and beyond.\n\nCosponsored by: \nUCLA Chicana/o Studies Research Center \nUCLA Center for Mexican Studies
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-with-timothy-a-wise/
LOCATION:Haines Hall 144\, 375 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:"The Fight for Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity"
DESCRIPTION:IRLE Colloquia Series presents: \nIn conversation with Paul Apostolidis about his new book: \nThe Fight for Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity. \nAs unauthorized migrants\, day laborers are subjected to extraordinarily harsh treatment when they work and search for jobs. Yet these extremely marginalized migrants also epitomize struggles that apply throughout our increasingly precarious working world. Tracking the conditions that make day laborers both exceptions within today’s economy and fitting symbols of its dysfunctions\, using intellectual resources drawn from Paulo Freire’s popular education theory\, this talk sheds light on the contortions of time that define what “precarity” means. The analysis also takes lessons from day laborers’ worker centers about the kinds of organizations capable of fighting precarity for the good of all working people. \n\n\nVisit us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/PaulApostolidis \nPaul Apostolidis joins the Government faculty at the London School of Economics and Political Science (London\, UK) in June 2019; he is currently on the Politics faculty at Whitman College (Walla Walla\, WA\, USA). His new book\, The Fight for Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity\, was released by Oxford University Press in January 2019. Previously he authored Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy (University of Minnesota Press\, 2010) and Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio (Duke University Press\, 2000). With Juliet Williams (UCLA\, Gender Studies) he co-edited Public Affairs: Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals (Duke University Press\, 2004). Professor Apostolidis’s articles have appeared in journals of political theory\, critical theory\, feminist studies\, and race & ethnic studies. His teaching emphasizes public impact research and he is the founder and director of Whitman’s nationally recognized community-based research program on “The State of the State for Washington Latinos.” Professor Apostolidis received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Cornell University and his A.B. from Princeton University. He can be reached at paulapostolidis@gmail.com. \n\n\n\n\nThe 2019-2020 Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) colloquia series aims to convene faculty\, students\, and special guests to discuss multidisciplinary research and policy issues impacting workers and their families today.\nThe Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) houses the Labor Studies academic program and three units – UCLA Labor Center\, Human Resources Roundtable\, and the Labor Occupational Safety and Health program. IRLE forms wide-ranging research agendas that carry UCLA into the Los Angeles community and beyond.\n\nCosponsored by: \nUCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/paulapostolidis/
LOCATION:Haines Hall 144\, 375 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190418T120000
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SUMMARY:(Un)-Just Wages: Wage Theft and Day Labor in Colorado
DESCRIPTION:IRLE Colloquia Series presents: \nRebecca Galemba and her talk on Un-Just Wages: Wage Theft and Day Labor in Colorado. \nThe DU Just Wages Project\, led by Professor Galemba\, recently released results from a two year qualitative and quantitative study on wage theft experienced by day laborers in the Denver metro area. From 2015-2017\, she led teams of DU graduate and undergraduate students in collaboration with community partners (El Centro Humanitario\, Sturm College of Law\, and Towards Justice) to conduct qualitative interviews and participant observation with 170 workers. Research teams also conducted interviews with legal agency staff\, lawyers\, non-profits\, employers\, and policymakers in order to understand the larger context in which wage theft operates. The qualitative study followed with a survey (with assistance from Dr. Randall Kuhn) of 400 day laborers coupled with Know Your Rights outreach at street corner hiring sites. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWage theft most frequently manifested in terms of workers being paid less than they were promised and outright non-payment for work completed. 62% of day laborers had ever experienced wage theft; 19% in the 6 months prior to being surveyed. The research uncovered common patterns employers use to cheat workers out of earned wages\, as well as strategies that day laborers\, lawyers\, state agencies\, and non-profits use to recoup wages. The research found that workers had low levels of legal knowledge\, but that any outreach must also be coupled with more proactive policy to hold employers and frequent industry violators accountable to make these rights actionable. Limitations within the intersection of immigration and labor law makes it difficult for low-wage immigrant workers to pursue redress while working in day labor itself poses risks of downward integration in terms of wages\, working hours\, and exposure to wage theft. \nVisit us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/RebeccaGalemba \nRebecca Galemba is Assistant Professor of International Studies at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Her research interests include border studies\, migration\, informal and illicit economies\, and the intersections between immigration and work. Her first book\, Contraband Corridor: Making a Living at the Mexico-Guatemala Border\, was published by Stanford University Press in December 2017. Her most recent projects involve students in community-based research on immigration and labor issues in Colorado. In May of 2017\, she received the University of Denver’s Public Good Faculty of the Year Award\, recognizing the integration of service-learning and the public good into her teaching and research. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nThe 2019-2020 Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) colloquia series aims to convene faculty\, students\, and special guests to discuss multi-disciplinary research and policy issues impacting workers and their families today.\n\n\n\nThe Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) houses the Labor Studies academic program and three units – UCLA Labor Center\, Human Resources Roundtable\, and the Labor Occupational Safety and Health program. IRLE forms wide-ranging research agendas that carry UCLA into the Los Angeles community and beyond. \nCosponsored by:  \n\n\n\nUCLA Center for the Study of International Migration
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/rebeccagalemba/
LOCATION:UCLA Bunche Hall 6275
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SUMMARY:The Politics of Survival: Racial Geographies of Capitalism in Post-Disaster Puerto Rico
DESCRIPTION:IRLE Colloquia Series presents: \n\nFernando Tormos-Aponte and his talk on”The Politics of Survival: Racial Geographies of Capitalism in Post-Disaster Puerto Rico.” \n\n\n\nOn September 20th\, 2017\, Hurricane María made landfall on Puerto Rico. With sustained winds of 250km per hour\, the storm accomplished the unthinkable: making the economic outlook of Puerto Rico for the foreseeable future look even worse than it had the day before. Tormos argues that the hurricane exacerbated an ongoing fiscal and humanitarian crisis while revealing deep-rooted inequalities and federal and local government neglect of marginalized communities. He will address how US-Puerto Rico economic and political relations have set the stage for the crisis and how social movements are organizing to respond.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisit us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/FernandoTormosAponte \nFernando Tormos-Aponte is a postdoctoral fellow with the Scholars Strategy Network and a research fellow of the Southern Methodist University Latino Center. His research focuses on how social movements push governments and corporations to address issues of inequality. This summer he will be a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge where he will work on his new book with José Ciro Martínez on the politics of survival and disaster relief in Puerto Rico in the wake of hurricane María. \n\n\n\n\n\nThe 2019-2020 Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) colloquia series aims to convene faculty\, students\, and special guests to discuss multi-disciplinary research and policy issues impacting workers and their families today. \nThe Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) houses the Labor Studies academic program and three units – UCLA Labor Center\, Human Resources Roundtable\, and the Labor Occupational Safety and Health program. IRLE forms wide-ranging research agendas that carry UCLA into the Los Angeles community and beyond. \n\n\n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/fernandotormosaponte/
LOCATION:Haines Hall 144\, 375 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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