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SUMMARY:May Day March
DESCRIPTION:Date: Friday\, May 1st\nTime: 10 AM\nLocation: MacArthur Park \nThis May 1st\, join us at MacArthur Park at 10 AM and march alongside workers from every sector\, trade\, and craft. \nThis year’s message is clear: Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo. Come out and be part of LA’s annual May Day march! 📢 \nStudents — we’re working on a bus from UCLA to MacArthur Park and back\, plus a teach-in and poster-making session before the march. More details coming soon.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/may-day-march/
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SUMMARY:Labor Studies NOW Presents: Book Panel on Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest
DESCRIPTION:Labor Studies NOW Speaker Series\nJennifer Jihye Chun and Ju Hui Judy Han\nAgainst Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest \nDate: Thursday\, May 14th\nTime: 12-1 PM\nLocation: 10383 Bunche Hall \nRSVP HERE! \nModerator: Tobias Higbie \nDiscussants: Jong Bum Kwon\, Hannah Appel\, Zeynep Korkman \nOrganized by: Department of Labor Studies\, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment\, and Center for Korean Studies \nAbout the book\nAgainst Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest (Stanford University Press\, 2025) offers insight into the utility and futility of protesting precarity under neoliberal capitalism. Based on long-term ethnographic research and in-depth interviews with key labor and social movement activists\, the book follows the protests of minoritized workers\, especially women employed in precarious jobs\, as they contend with what it means to be treated as disposable and what it takes to resist. Long-term protest camps\, life-threatening hunger strikes\, grueling prostrations\, perilous high-altitude occupations are agonizing to perform and to witness but often powerful as affective catalysts of change. Through dramatic performances and rituals that repeat across time and space\, Against Abandonment finds that protesters cultivate repertoires of solidarity as a relational force that binds people and worlds together in a collective praxis of refusal. In doing so\, Against Abandonment builds upon intersectional\, transnational\, and abolitionist feminist theorizing that has long emphasized the centrality of building relations of care and community in place-based struggles against capitalist abandonment. \nAbout the authors\nJennifer Jihye Chun is Professor of Asian American Studies and Labor Studies at UCLA. She is the author of Organizing at the Margins: the Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States (2009) and co-author of Against Abandonment: Repertoires Solidarity in South Korean Protest (2025). She is the Interim Chair of the Department of Labor Studies and has a faculty teaching appointment in the International Institute. \nJu Hui Judy Han is Associate Professor in Gender Studies at UCLA. Han is the author of Queer Throughlines: Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora (2025) and co-author of Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest (2025). She is currently working on a decolonial travel guide to Korea and a new project on the “feminist take” on contemporary cultural politics.  \nAbout the panelists\nHannah Appel is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies and Associate Faculty Director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. She is the author of The Licit Life of Capitalism (2019) and co-author of Can’t Pay\, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition (2020). Appel is a co-founder and organizer with the Debt Collective. \nTobias Higbie is Professor of History and Labor Studies and the Director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) at UCLA. He is a labor historian whose research explores the intersection of work\, migration\, and social movement organizing in the United States. He is the author of Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest\, 1880-1930 (2003) and Labor’s Mind: a History of Working-Class Intellectual Life (2019). \nZeynep Korkman is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at UCLA.  Her research explores the gendered relationships between affect\, labor\, religion\, and transnational feminist politics\, with a focus on Turkey and the broader Middle East. She is the author of Gendered Fortunes: Divination\, Precarity\, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey (2023). Her ongoing research investigates the affective and laborious contents and discontents of transnational feminist solidarity. \nJong Bum Kwon is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Webster University. His research interests include cultural anthropology\, urban studies\, globalization\, race and ethnicity\, ethnographic methods\, with a focus on contemporary Korean labor and capitalism and Asians in America. His current research projects focus on the dilemma of whiteness in St. Louis\, MO\, in the wake of the Ferguson Uprising and Black youth’s aspirations and social mobility in the time of BLM and white nativism. 
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/labor-studies-now-presents-book-panel-on-against-abandonment-repertoires-of-solidarity-in-south-korean-protest/
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SUMMARY:2026 Labor@UCLA Research Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Date: May 22nd\nTime: 1-3 P.M.\nLocation: Public Affairs 1323 & Zoom \nRSVP HERE! \nWe are excited to announce our 4th annual Labor@UCLA Research Showcase – Friday\, May 22nd\, 2026 from 1-3 pm in-person at Public Affairs 1323 and via zoom! This event is part of Undergraduate Research Week. Undergraduate Research Week is a week-long celebration of undergraduate research and creative inquiry at UCLA. 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. \nNow in its 28th year\, Undergraduate Research Week\, which will be held May 18-22\, 2026\, is UCLA’s largest undergraduate conference. Labor Studies is an interdisciplinary program of study\, which critically analyzes the theory and practice of current workplace issues. Students develop a deeper understanding of the relationships between their education and society at large and how they\, as college graduates\, can transform the nature of work. Students who were selected will be presenting on past or current work developed for a capstone\, honors theses\, or other Labor Studies and related classes (both approved and related). Lunch will be provided for in-person attendance. \nIf you have any questions\, please feel free to follow-up with Elizbeth Espinoza\, espinoza@irle.ucla.edu.
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/2026-laborucla-research-showcase/
LOCATION:Public Affairs 1323 & Zoom
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SUMMARY:The Past\, Present\, and Future of Jews and the Labor Movement in Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 28\, 2026 • UCLA Labor Center • 5:30 PM\n675 S Park View Street\, Los Angeles\, CA 90057 \nWhat drew Jewish immigrants to the labor movement? How did unions become distinctly “Jewish” spaces — and what happened when they changed? Join historians\, organizers\, and community leaders for a panel on Jewish labor activism in Los Angeles: from the open-shop battles of the early 20th century to today. \nFeaturing Jackie Goldberg (Community Leader & Labor Activist) \nRSVP HERE! \nSponsored by UCLA Department of Labor Studies UCLA Labor Center\, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\, Jewish Partnership for Los Angeles
URL:https://irle.ucla.edu/event/the-past-present-and-future-of-jews-and-the-labor-movement-in-los-angeles/
LOCATION:UCLA Labor Center
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