Chun presents findings of Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest / UCLA Labor Studies
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Willa Needham2026-05-26 08:57:252026-05-26 09:37:55“Hope is something we make”: solidarity and care in the South Korean labor movementThe Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) is a multidisciplinary research center advancing labor research and education for economic justice. Through the work of its units, academic department and research initiatives, the Institute powers wide-ranging economic equity agendas that bring UCLA into the Los Angeles community and beyond.
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Chun presents findings of Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest / UCLA Labor Studies
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Willa Needham2026-05-26 08:57:252026-05-26 09:37:55“Hope is something we make”: solidarity and care in the South Korean labor movement
Students, faculty and staff participating in the UCLA Labor Studies 2026 May Day contingent pose for a group photo outside of the UCLA James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center in MacArthur Park / UCLA Labor Studies
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Willa Needham2026-05-22 10:17:022026-05-26 12:21:26Workers in action: Student reflection on May Day 2026
Community members and staff gathered at the James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center main room during the reopening celebration on April 23, 2026 / UCLA Labor Center
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Willa Needham2026-05-06 09:17:322026-05-06 09:17:56UCLA Labor Center welcomes the community home as it celebrates historic building reopening
Speakers at the "Celebrating the Hollywood Diversity Report 2026" panel: (L to R) Darnell Hunt, UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost; Ana-Christina Ramón, Director, UCLA Entertainment and Media Research Initiative (EMRI); Dean Celine Parreñas Shimizu, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT); Steven Canals, writer, co-creator and executive producer of Pose; and Professor Sanjay Sood, UCLA Anderson School of Management / UCLA TFT
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Willa Needham2026-04-21 16:35:492026-04-21 16:55:29“That’s why we persist”: Hollywood Diversity Report celebrated at UCLA TFT panel- May Day celebrations are just around the corner, ARN Stories, Ft. Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, UCLA Labor Center project director, April 22, 2026
- Three unions unite in massive LAUSD strike threat: What’s at stake for workers, families, Los Angeles Times, Ft. Tia Koonse, UCLA Labor Center legal and policy research director, April 9, 2026
- When 1 million marched for immigrant rights in Downtown L.A., KCRW, Ft. Victor Narro, UCLA Labor Center project director and Chris Zepeda-Millán, UCLA Labor Studies professor, March 25, 2026
- Hollywood’s top films were less diverse in 2025: ‘Studios have relapsed into a colorblind complacency’, Los Angeles Times, Ft. Ana-Christina Ramón, UCLA Entertainment and Media Research Initiative Director, March 12, 2026
- Koreatown’s frontline supermarket workers are underpaid and stretched thin, LA Public Press, Mentions UCLA Labor Center study, February 18, 2026
- What Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy looks like in today’s movements, UCLA Newsroom, Ft. Robin D.G. Kelley, UCLA Labor Studies professor, January 17, 2026
- New Trump Policy Could Make Thousands Of Immigrants Vulnerable To Losing Their Jobs, Huffpost, Ft. Victor Narro, UCLA Labor Center project director, October 30, 2025
- A play about the revolt of human workers — not machines — gave us the word ‘robot’, NPR, Ft. Tobias Higbie, UCLA IRLE Director, September 12, 2025
