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Thursday, October 8, UCLA

Bus tour of places related to the vibrant LA labor movement
(registration for this paid event is now closed)

Opening plenary: Economic & environmental crises: What impact on workers?

• Chair: Linda Delp, UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health (LOSH)
• Enrique Dussel Peters, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• HE Gaochao, Sun Yat Sen University
• Dave Foster, Blue Green Alliance
• Discussant: Chris Tilly, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Friday, October 9, UCLA

8:30 AM
Kerckhoff Grand Salon

Plenary: "Wal-Mart and the role of transnational corporations"

• Chair: Chris Erickson, UCLA
• Valeria Scorza, Proyecto de Derechos Economicos, Sociales, y Culturales in Mexico City
• Eli Friedman, UC Berkeley
• Nelson Lichtenstein, UC Santa Barbara
• Discussant: Chris Tilly, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE)
• Special Guest: Alessandro Duranti, Dean of the UCLA Social Sciences Division

11:00 AM

• Chair: Yang Cao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
• “The Evolution of Multinational Corporations in Mexico in the Context of Globalization and the Crisis” Jorge Carrillo, Colegio de la Frontera Norte
• “The Common Law of Inequality” Yaraslau Kryvoi, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP
• “Institutional Change and the Transformation of Class Structure in China” LIN Thung-hong
• “Globalization, Labor Market Transformation, and Metropolitan Earnings Inequality” Michael Wallace & Gordon Gauchat, University of Connecticut; Andrew S. Fullerton, Oklahoma State University
• “Tripartism with four parties? Regimes of production and industrial relations in Chinese core industries” Boy Luethje, Institute of Social Research, Frankfurt (Germany), Visiting Professor, School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University
• Discussant: Dorothy Solinger, UC Irvine

• Chair: Roger Waldinger, UCLA
• “Paths to Mobility: The Mexican Second Generation at Work in a New Destination” Sarah Morando, UCLA
• “From Legalized Exlusion to Illegalized Inclusion: State-Economy Relations and Immigrant Labor in Post-WWII California” Marcel Paret, UC Berkeley
• Discussant: David Bacon, independent journalist and researcher

• Chair: Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, UCLA Labor Center
• “Strategies for protecting worker health and safety” Garrett Brown
• “Does the Corporate Social Responsibility make a difference in labor conditions? A Case Study in the Shenzhen Industrial Zone” Yiu Por Chen, DePaul University
  “Connecting Kashrut and Immigrant Workers’ Welfare: Campaigns for Kosher Social Justice Certification” Michael Haedicke, Drake University
• “A Social Label for Social Dialogue: A Proposal to Improve Working Conditions for Women in the Apparel Industry” Valkyrie Hanson, American University
• “Comparing Approaches to Protecting Mexican Workers” Graciela Bensusan, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-Xochimilco
  Discussant: TBD

• Chair: Enrique Dussel Peters, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• “North American integration: Future directions” Raul Hinojosa, UCLA
• "Immigrant/Labor Rights, Environmental Justice & Sustainable Development in the Pacific Triangle & Beyond:  21st Century Perspectives" Thomas Reifer, University of San Diego
• “China’s Impact on Wages in Mexico” Ian Robinson, University of Michigan
• Discussant: Cindy Fan, UCLA

• Chair: Abel Valenzuela, UCLA
• Fernando Herrera-Lima, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa
• Maria Elena Hincapie, ED, National Immigration Law Center
• Ching Kwan Lee, UCLA
• Discussant: Rubén Hernández León, UCLA

• "As US declines, will China rise?" John Borrego, UC Santa Cruz (Chair)
• “Impacts of financial crisis on US and Mexican workers” Alejandro Alvarez Bejar, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• "Agriculture in Mexico and China" Liu Xue Dong, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• “Is US trade deficit sustainable?” Ximena Echenique, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• “Three Chinese Labor Sectors: Conditions, Conflicts and Global Impact” Robert Weil, UC Santa Cruz
• Discussant: Thomas Reifer, University of San Diego

• Chair: Marley Weiss, University of Maryland
• “The Recent Changes of Legal Environment and their Impact on Workplace in China” Sun-wook Chung, Cornell University
• “Mexican labor law in Latin American context” Enrique de la Garza, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa
• “Remaking Home Care: Low Wage Women Outside the Law” Eileen Boris, UC Santa Barbara
• Discussant: Daniel J.B. Mitchell, UCLA

Saturday, October 10, UCLA Downtown Labor Center

"Plenary: Labor rights and labor law reform"

• Chair: Victor Narro, UCLA Labor Center
• Arturo Alcalde, independent labor attorney
• LIU Cheng, Shanghai Normal University
• Ray Marshall, Professor of Economics at UT Austin, former Secretary of Labor
• Discussant: Katherine Stone, UCLA
• Special Guest: ZHENG Yiyao, Guangzhou Federation of Trade Unions, Guangzhou

• Chair: Cesar J. Ayala, Dept of Sociology, UCLA
• “Combating Inequality in Global Supply Chains: The Case of Warehouse Workers” Brishen Rogers, Harvard University
• “Firing for cause without employer responsibility” Patricia Kurczyn, Universidad Autónoma de México
• “International Labor Rights as a Means to Reduce Inequality in the Global Economy: U.S., Chinese, and Mexican Comparisons” Marley Weiss, University of Maryland
• “Unionism and inequality: China, Mexico, US” Michael J. Zimmer, Loyola University Chicago
• Discussant: Cesar Rosado Marzán, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law

• Chair: Eli Friedman
• “Labor organizing in Mexico” Jeff Hermanson, Writers Guild of America
• “Like Oil and Water: Philanthropic Collaboratives and Farmworker Organizing” Erica Kohl-Arenas, UC Berkeley
• “Union and Worker Center Strategies in LA” Victor Narro, UCLA Downtown Labor Center
• "Political Opportunity and Resistance: A Study of Migrant Workers' Protests in China" ZHU Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• discussant: Peter Olney, International Longshore Workers Union

• Chair: Eileen Boris, UC Santa Barbara / Boy Luethje, Institute of Social Research, Frankfurt (Germany)
• “Gender composition and wage in MNC subsidiaries in China” Yang Cao & Wei Zhao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• "Even Good Jobs Get Worse: U.S. and Mexican Autoworkers in the Global Economy" Jeffrey Rothstein, Grand Valley State University
• “Rising China’: The apparel global commodity chain, labor and inequality” David Smith, UC Irvine, Wai Kit Choi, California State University Los Angeles
• Discussants: Carolina Bank Muñoz, Brooklyn College / Edna Bonacich, UC Riverside

• Maria Elena Durazo, LA County Fed of Labor
• Bertha Elena Lujan, Frente Autentico del Trabajo
• Chris Tilly, UCLA
• Kent Wong, UCLA