| January 2008 |
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| January 29, 2008. Documentary Film on L.A. garment workers, followed by discussion: "Made In L.A." |
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| January 25, 2008. "The Missing Link in the Labor and Trade Debate: The Impact of Global Competition on Domestic Labor Regulation." Katherine V.W. Stone, UCLA School of Law. |
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| January 23, 2008. "Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women". Virginia Valian, City University of New York. Co-sponsored by UCLA Faculty Diversity and Development. |
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| January 11, 2008. "Wal-Mart: Toward a Social and Cultural History." Nelson Lichtenstein, UC Santa Barbara. |
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| December 2007 |
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| December 6, 2007. "National Capitalisms, Global Production Networks" OR "Who is Going To Tame the Market? Labor Standards in the Global Clothing Industry". Christel Lane, Cambridge University. Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology and the Center for International Business Education and Reseach, AGSM. |
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| November 2007 |
| November 8, 2007. "The Labor Process Revisited: Institutional Polymorphism and Organizational Political Economy in the Manufacturing Field." Matt Vidal, IRLE Postdoctoral Fellow. Co-sponsored with the Sociology Seminar on Theory and Research in Comparative Social Analysis. |
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| October 2007 |
| October 26, 2007. "Symposium on The Socioeconomic Impact of Prop. 209: Ten Years Later." |
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| October 25, 2007. "Is There A Future for Employment Class Action Lawsuits?" Ben Aaron Annual Labor Law Lecture. Brad Seligman of The Impact Fund. |
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| October 15, 2007. "A Constructive Force Against Radicalism: The Origins of Labor Anti-Communism." Jennifer Luff, IRLE Postdoctoral Fellow. Co-sponsored with the U.S. History Colloquium. |
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| May 2007 |
| May 22, 2007. "Engendering a New Working Class: Social Trauma and Labor Resistance in China.” Pun Ngai, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies and the Center for the Study of Women. |
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| May 11, 2007. "The Political Economy of Social Concertation." Lucio Baccaro, MIT. Co-sponsored by the Human Resources & Organizational Behavior Research Seminar, Anderson School of Management. |
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| May 3, 2007. " Labor Casualization, Precarious Work and Social Movements in France." Beatrice Appay, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France). Co-sponsored by the Center for European and Eurasian Studies and the Public Sociology Working Group. |
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| April 2007 |
| April 19, 2007. "A Theory of Antidiscrimination Law as Disruption: How the Law Can Target Stereotyping and Transcend Group Boundaries." Vicki Schultz, Yale University. Co-sponsored by the Globalization and Labor Standards program (GALS). |
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| March 2007 |
| March 1, 2007. "The Politics of Sexual Harassment in the U.S., European Union, and Germany." Kathrin Zippel, Northeastern University. Abigail Saguy, discussant. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, the Center for the Study of Women, and the Sociology Gender Working Group. |
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| February 2007 |
| February 6, 2007. "Impossible Subjects: IIlegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America." Mae Ngai, University of Chicago. Co-sponsored by the U.S. History Colloquium. |
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| January 2007 |
| January 23, 2007. "Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party." Paul Frymer, UC Santa Cruz. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. |
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| December 2006 |
| December 5, 2006. Special reception to commemorate IIR's 60th anniversary with faculty, past directors, elected officials, and friends. |
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| November 2006 |
| November 30, 2006. "The Surprising Saga of Wal-Mart in Mexico: Market Dominance without Low Wages." Chris Tilly, University of Massachusetts, Lowell. |
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| November 9, 2006. "Reflections on the Immigrant Rights Movement." Angelica Salas, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights for Los Angeles and Pablo Alvarado, National Day Laborer Organizing Network. Co-sponsored by the Migration Study Group. |
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| October 2006 |
| October 26, 2006. "Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace." Nancy MacLean, Northwestern University. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women, the U.S. History Colloquium and the Gender and Public Sociology Working Groups. |
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| October 25, 2006. "L.A. Union Organizing in the 21st Century" featuring speakers from the port truckers, security guards, and hotel workers' campaigns and the authors of the new book L.A. STORY. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Downtown Labor Center. |
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| October 11, 2006. The Benjamin Aaron Lecture: "New Perspectives on Workers' Rights in the 21st Century." Jonathan Hiatt, General Counsel, AFL-CIO. Co-sponsored by the Labor & Employment Law Section of the L.A. County Bar Association. |
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| October 5, 2006. An Author Meets Critics Session on the new book "L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement." Author: Ruth Milkman; Critics: Daniel Mitchell, Katherine Stone, Maurice Zeitlin. Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology's Seminar on Theory and Research in Comparative Social Analysis and Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series. |
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| May 2006 |
| May 23, 2006. "Legal Transnationalism: The Emergence of a Labor Rights Regime Under NAFTA." Tamara Kay, UC San Diego and Harvard University. |
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| May 18 2006. BOOK TALK: "WORKER CENTERS: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream (Economic Policy Institute & Cornell)," Janice Fine, Rutgers University. Co-sponsored by the Department of Urban Planning. |
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| May 11 2006. "The Global Chicken: Immigration and the New American Dilemma," Kathleen C. Schwartzman, University of Arizona. Co-sponsored by the Migration Study Group. |
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| May 2, 2006. BOOK TALK: "Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade - Lessons From Shanghai." Andrew Ross, New York University. |
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| April 2006 |
| April 27, 2006."A New Labor Movement for A New Century? The Incorporation of Marginalized Workers in U.S. Unions." Dorian Warren, University of Chicago. Co-Sponsored by the Bunche Center for African American Studies and the Sociology Department's Race and Ethnicity Working Group. |
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| April 24, 2006. BOOK TALK: "The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences." Louis Uchitelle, Economics Reporter, the New York Times. |
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| April, 11, 2006. "Back to the Future: Reviving Minority- Union Collective Bargaining Under the National Labor Relations Act." Charles Morris, Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Law School. |
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| February 2006 |
| February 2, 2006. "Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market." Katherine Newman, Princeton. Co-sponsored by the California Center for Population Research, the Department of Sociology's Ross Lecture Series and the Department of Public Policy and Anthropology. |
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| February 16, 2006. "Work-Family Policies in Financial Services Firms: Organizational Ideologies and Corporate Practices." Mary Blair-Loy, UC San Diego. Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology's Gender Working Group and Family Working Group. |
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| February 21, 2006. "Headscarves in the Workplace: Anti-Muslim Employment Discrimination in Europe." Jytte Klausen, Brandeis University. Co-sponsored by the Center for European and Eurasian Studies, the Law School Critical Race Studies Program and the Globalization and the Labor Standards (GALS) Project. |
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| February 27, 2006. "Workers of the Sea, Unite? The Fate of Global Unionism in the Pre-World War I Years." Leon Fink, University of Illinois, Chicago. Co-sponsored by the Department of History. |
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| January 2006 |
| January 17, 2006. "Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families' Agenda for America." Thomas A. Kochan, MIT. Co-sponsored by the Anderson Graduate School of Management |
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| December 2005 |
| December 1, 2005. "New Developments in U.S. Immigration Policy: The 2005 'Guest Worker' Proposals and Their Political Prospects." Marielena Hincapie, National Immigration Law Center. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Migration Study Group and the Dept. of Public Policy. |
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| November 2005 |
| November 22, 2005. "The Future of the U.S. Labor Movement: Can Unions Rebuild?," Anna Burger (Chair, Change to Win Federation) and Stewart Acuff (Organizing Director, AFL-CIO). |
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| October 2005 |
| October 8 and 9, 2005. "Comparative Labor Law: Bridging the Past and the Future," Co-sponsored by the UCLA School of Law and the UCLA Globalization and Labor Standards Project. |
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| October 11, 2005. The Benjamin Aaron Lecture: "The Low Down on Labour Law Down Under: How Australia Compares with the U.S. and Canada," Ronald C. McCallum, Dean of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. Co-sponsored by the Labor & Employment Law Section of the LA County Bar Association. |
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| October 27, 2005. "Contentious Transition: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt," Ching Kwan Lee, University of Michigan. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Dept. of Sociology. |
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| March 2005 |
| March 3, 2005. "Suburban Sweatshops."
Jennifer Gordon, Fordham School of Law. |
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| March 15, 2005. "Decision-Making by the Children of the NLSY." Shelly Lundberg, University of Washington. |
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| March 30, 2005. "The Social Security Safety Net--Will it Hold?" Expert Panel, UCLA School of Law. |
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| March 31, 2005. "Guest Workers and Immigration Reform: Legal, Social & Economic Problems & Prospects." Expert Panel, UCLA School of Law. |
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| February 2005 |
| February 11, 2005. Organizational Behavior Conference. Co-sponsored by the Anderson Graduate School of Management. |
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| January 2005 |
| January 19, 2005.
"Why Low Income Women Put Motherhood before Marriage." Kathryn Edin, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. |
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