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Labor Studies Group photo of the UCLA Labor Studies class of 2025 / John Gaglione “They cannot steal your joy”: Celebration, community and resilience at UCLA Labor Studies 2025 commencement ceremony June 18, 2025	Labor Studies Introducing Carolina Sarabia Garcia, UCLA Labor Studies 2025 commencement speaker June 12, 2025	Labor Studies Introducing Mia Tracy, UCLA Labor Studies 2025 commencement speaker June 12, 2025
Labor Studies Eric Blanc, Alex Caputo-Pearl, and Mel Deorsola in conversation during UCLA Labor Studies’ book talk held April 29th. Worker-to-Worker Organizing: Revitalizing the Labor Movement May 6, 2025	Labor Studies May Day in Los Angeles April 30, 2025	Economic Justice, Memory Work, Working Class History UCLA IRLE staff, students and faculty at May Day 2024 march in Los Angeles What is May Day? April 28, 2025
Institute News Group photo after keynote panel at 2025 Thinking Gender conference. L to R: Saba Waheed, Yesenia DeCasaus, Lorena Lopez Masoumi, Adriana Paz Ramírez, Jennifer Chun, Da In Choi and Katherine Marino Labor highlighted at 35th ‘Thinking Gender’ Conference March 19, 2025	Memory Work, Working Class History Bryn Mawr’s Summer School for Women Workers in Industry. Image from National Photo Company, Library of Congress c. 1921. The Herstory of the IRLE March 3, 2025	Labor Studies Jet Jacobs, head of public services, outreach and community engagement and interim assistant director of UCLA LSC discusses sci-fi pulp novels with students Past, present and future collide in UCLA labor studies sci-fi class February 25, 2025
Labor Studies Image courtesy of Jennifer Jihye Chun; Protesters gather in South Korea on December 6, 2024 South Korean unions fight for democracy January 6, 2025	Labor Studies Zeke Alton, Sarah Elmaleh and Trevor Griffey (left to right) at the SAG-AFTRA Roundtable event held at Royce Hall. / Labor Studies UCLA Labor Studies hosts roundtable on AI in the entertainment industry December 12, 2024	Labor Studies Community archive project documents historic UC strike December 3, 2024
Announcements, Strategic Research Chris Zepeda-Millán is the Strategic Research Lab's faculty director. Zepeda-Míllan has been leading all aspects of this new area of focus at UCLA's IRLE. / Mary Braswell UCLA’s new Strategic Research Lab will train researchers for the common good November 12, 2024	Labor Studies Robin D.G. Kelley, March 2019. Edited graphic by UCLA Labor Studies, original photo by Madelene Cronjé. Robin D.G. Kelley to teach UCLA Labor Studies’ nonviolence and social movements class November 4, 2024	Announcements, Institute News, Staff Spotlight UCLA IRLE staff picks– fall 2024 November 1, 2024
Labor Studies Elizbeth Espinoza, Jollene Levid and Chris Zepeda-Millan (left to right) at the Filipinos that Strike event held at UTLA headquarters. / Labor Studies “Filipinos that Strike”: Inside the UCLA labor studies oral history project event October 28, 2024	Announcements, Labor Studies UCLA labor studies announces t-shirt contest October 11, 2024	Labor Studies The annual event allows students to meet labor studies faculty and staff and student groups in a dynamic, welcoming setting. Photo by: UCLA Labor Studies UCLA Labor Studies welcomes students to new academic year at annual open house event October 11, 2024
Announcements, Institute News, Staff Spotlight Meet UCLA IRLE’s 2024 Visiting Scholars cohort October 9, 2024	Labor Studies The new scholars will bring new research and courses that expand upon the program's current areas of expertise. UCLA Labor Studies welcomes new scholars September 27, 2024	Labor Studies Remembering the legacy of Reverend James Lawson Jr. September 20, 2024

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Labor Studies Group photo of the UCLA Labor Studies class of 2025 / John Gaglione “They cannot steal your joy”: Celebration, community and resilience at UCLA Labor Studies 2025 commencement ceremony June 18, 2025	Labor Studies Introducing Carolina Sarabia Garcia, UCLA Labor Studies 2025 commencement speaker June 12, 2025
Labor Studies Introducing Mia Tracy, UCLA Labor Studies 2025 commencement speaker June 12, 2025	Labor Studies Eric Blanc, Alex Caputo-Pearl, and Mel Deorsola in conversation during UCLA Labor Studies’ book talk held April 29th. Worker-to-Worker Organizing: Revitalizing the Labor Movement May 6, 2025
Labor Studies May Day in Los Angeles April 30, 2025	Economic Justice, Memory Work, Working Class History UCLA IRLE staff, students and faculty at May Day 2024 march in Los Angeles What is May Day? April 28, 2025
Institute News Group photo after keynote panel at 2025 Thinking Gender conference. L to R: Saba Waheed, Yesenia DeCasaus, Lorena Lopez Masoumi, Adriana Paz Ramírez, Jennifer Chun, Da In Choi and Katherine Marino Labor highlighted at 35th ‘Thinking Gender’ Conference March 19, 2025	Memory Work, Working Class History Bryn Mawr’s Summer School for Women Workers in Industry. Image from National Photo Company, Library of Congress c. 1921. The Herstory of the IRLE March 3, 2025
Labor Studies Jet Jacobs, head of public services, outreach and community engagement and interim assistant director of UCLA LSC discusses sci-fi pulp novels with students Past, present and future collide in UCLA labor studies sci-fi class February 25, 2025	Labor Studies Image courtesy of Jennifer Jihye Chun; Protesters gather in South Korea on December 6, 2024 South Korean unions fight for democracy January 6, 2025
Labor Studies Zeke Alton, Sarah Elmaleh and Trevor Griffey (left to right) at the SAG-AFTRA Roundtable event held at Royce Hall. / Labor Studies UCLA Labor Studies hosts roundtable on AI in the entertainment industry December 12, 2024	Labor Studies Community archive project documents historic UC strike December 3, 2024
Announcements, Strategic Research Chris Zepeda-Millán is the Strategic Research Lab's faculty director. Zepeda-Míllan has been leading all aspects of this new area of focus at UCLA's IRLE. / Mary Braswell UCLA’s new Strategic Research Lab will train researchers for the common good November 12, 2024	Labor Studies Robin D.G. Kelley, March 2019. Edited graphic by UCLA Labor Studies, original photo by Madelene Cronjé. Robin D.G. Kelley to teach UCLA Labor Studies’ nonviolence and social movements class November 4, 2024
Announcements, Institute News, Staff Spotlight UCLA IRLE staff picks– fall 2024 November 1, 2024	Labor Studies Elizbeth Espinoza, Jollene Levid and Chris Zepeda-Millan (left to right) at the Filipinos that Strike event held at UTLA headquarters. / Labor Studies “Filipinos that Strike”: Inside the UCLA labor studies oral history project event October 28, 2024
Announcements, Labor Studies UCLA labor studies announces t-shirt contest October 11, 2024	Labor Studies The annual event allows students to meet labor studies faculty and staff and student groups in a dynamic, welcoming setting. Photo by: UCLA Labor Studies UCLA Labor Studies welcomes students to new academic year at annual open house event October 11, 2024
Announcements, Institute News, Staff Spotlight Meet UCLA IRLE’s 2024 Visiting Scholars cohort October 9, 2024	Labor Studies The new scholars will bring new research and courses that expand upon the program's current areas of expertise. UCLA Labor Studies welcomes new scholars September 27, 2024