Faculty
The Labor Studies program is administratively housed within the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) with active collaboration from the UCLA Center for Labor Research & Education (the Labor Center). Classes are taught in large part by Project Directors at the UCLA Labor Center, as well as additional in-house lecturers, visiting faculty, and affiliated faculty in other departments.
Tobias Higbie
IRLE Director & Professor of History and Labor Studies
instructor, working-class-history
Abel Valenzuela
Interim Dean of UCLA's Division of Social Sciences & Professor of Chicano Studies, Labor Studies and Urban Planning
immigration, instructor
Saba Waheed
Labor Center Research Director
domestic-workers, future-of-work, instructor, young-workers
Chris Zepeda-Millan
Labor Studies Faculty Chair, Professor of Public Policy and Chicana/o & Central American Studies
immigration, instructor
