Biography

Gaspar Rivera-Salgado is currently the Project Director at UCLA Labor Center, labor studies lecturer at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. He is also the Director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies. He teaches classes on work, labor and social justice in the US and immigration issues. Among his most recent publications include the volume (with J. Fox) Indigenous Mexican Migration in the United States (UCSD 2005); and the recently published volume (with E. Telles, and M. Sawyer) Just Neighbors: Research on African American and Latino Relations in the United States (Russell Sage, 2011). He received his doctorate in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Courses Taught

LBR STD 126: Farmworker Transnational Struggle
LBR STD 101: Introduction to Labor and Social Movements in Los Angeles
LBR 188: Cross Border Solidarity: Introductions to Labor Movements and Transnational Campaigns in Mexico and the U.S.
LBR STD 181: LA Labor and Social Science Research Principle, Methods, and Practice

Expertise

labor movements, immigrant workers, farm workers, binational worker movements and solidarity