Event Archive

March 5

Bridging the Gap: Connecting Academics to Funder and Foundation Initiatives

Héctor Cordero-Guzmán | Baruch College, CUNY

Presented by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

February 27

Chaos and Grassroots Organization in Mexico

Laura Carlson | Political Analyst, Writer

Gloria Muñoz | Director, Desinformémonos, a weekly magazine on grass-roots movements

Presented by the UCLA Labor Center, cosponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, the Latin American Institute, the Center for Mexican Studies, the Chicano Studies Research Center, and the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies

February 27

SHIFT CHANGE: True Stories of Secure, Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces

Film screening followed by a panel of experts from UCLA and the community.

Presented by the UCLA Center for Global Management and cosponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and the UCLA Anderson School of Management

February 20

Book Talk:  They Say Cut Back, We Say Fight Back!  Welfare Rights Activism in an Era of Retrenchment

Ellen Reese | University of California, Riverside
Zeke Hasenfeld | University of California, Los Angeles

Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology and the UCLA Department of Social Welfare

February 15

Neither Slave Nor Free: The Bound Labor of Migrant Workers

Rhacel Parreñas | University of Southern California
Jamie Goodwin-White | University of California, Los Angeles

Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology and the UCLA Program on International Migration

January 23

Colloquium — Inequalities at work, inequalities as parents: Mothers and fathers in transnational families

Leisy Abrego | University of California, Los Angeles

Suzanne Bianchi | University of California, Los Angeles

Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology, the UCLA Department of Chicana/o Studies, and the UCLA Program on International Migration

Colloquium — Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War

Dayo F. Gore | University of California, San Diego

Sarah Haley | University of California, Los Angeles

Cosponsorsed by the UCLA Department of Gender Studies, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, UCLA Interdepartmental Program in Afro-American Studies, UCLA Department of History, and Robin D.G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair

November 1

Death and Taxes (and other hot topics): Debating the 2012 California Ballot Propositions

Gray Davis | Luskin Distinguished Policy Fellow

Cameron Smyth | Luskin Senior Fellow

Moderator: Dan Mitchell | UCLA Anderson School of Management

Presented by the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Cosponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

October 17

Sea Change or More of the Same? Looking Beyond November 6: A Presidential Election Panel Discussion

Mark Z. Barabak | Los Angeles Times

Sky Gallegos | StudentsFirst

Adam Nagourney | Los Angeles Bureau Chief for The New York Times

Dan Schnur | USC Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics

Franklin D. Gilliam Jr. | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

Presented by the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs as part of their Meyer and Renee Luskin Lecture Series. Cosponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

October 4

2012 Benjamin Aaron Labor Law Lecture

Separate amd Unequal: Arbitration and Private Justice

Cliff Palefsky | McGuinn, Hillsman, & Palefsky

Cosponsored by the Labor & Employment Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Project on Work and Employment Regulation, UCLA School of Law

June 5

Impact of Colonial Policies on Contemporary Educational Outcomes

Idrees Khawaja | Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (IRLE Visiting Scholar)

Presented by the UCLA Center for Economic History as part of their Proseminar in European History. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Book Presentation - Just Neighbors? Research on African American and Latino Relations in the United States

Edward Telles | Princeton University
Mark Sawyer | University of California, Los Angeles
Gaspar Rivera-Salgado | University of California, Los Angeles

Cosponsored by the UCLA Labor Center, the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and the UCLA Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

La restructuración de la Industria Siderúrgica en México

Eleocadio Martínez | Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

Presented by the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies. Cosponsored by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and the Institute for Transnational Social Change at the UCLA Labor Center

May 2

The Elasticity of Labor Supply to the Firm over the Business Cycle

Todd Sorensen | University of California, Riverside
Christopher Erickson | UCLA Anderson School of Management

Cosponsored by UCLA Department of Economics and the von Gremp Seminar in Entrepreneurial and Economic History

Worker's Memorial Day

Cosponsored by the UCLA Labor and Occupational Safety and Health program and the SoCalCOSH

Human Persons, Incompressible Needs and Minimum Wages in Post-war France

Dana Simmons | University of California, Riverside

Cosponsored by UCLA Department of History and the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies

Panel - Organizing Workers in the Informal Economy: Brazil, China, Mexico, South Africa ... and Los Angeles

Cosponsored by UCLA Labor Center and the UCLA Center for International Business Education and Research

Learning from the Past to Change the Future: 20 Years of Justice for Janitors

Cosponsored by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, United Service Workers West, UCLA Library, UCLA Labor & Workplace Studies Minor, UCLA Labor Center, UCLA Department of History and the UCLA College of Letters and Science - Division of Social Sciences

Wisconsin and the Assault on the Public Sector

Presented by the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History. Cosponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

UCLA Lewis Center Informal City Series: Crystals, Mud and Space: Street Vending Informality

Gregg Kettles | Office of the Mayor of Los Angeles

Presented by the UCLA Lewis Center. Cosponsored by IRLE.

UCLA Lewis Center Informal City Speakers Series: The Logical Reproduction of Informality among Low Income Self-Help Communities in the USA

Peter Ward | University of Texas

Presented by the UCLA Lewis Center. Cosponsored by IRLE.

IRLE Graduate Student Research Conference: Participatory Democracy and Social Justice Struggles: From Port Huron to #Occupy



Cosponsored by the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and the UCLA Social Science Division

UCLA Lewis Center Informal City Speakers Series: America's Playground: Informal Sociability Among Atlantic City's Street Homeless

Jacob Avery | University of Michigan and University of California, Irvine

Presented by the UCLA Lewis Center. Cosponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

UCLA Lewis Center Informal City Speakers Series: Place as a Site of World-Making

Michael Rios | University of California, Davis

Presented by the UCLA Lewis Center. Cosponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Book Talk - "NAFTA and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism"

Tamara Kay | Harvard University
Rubén Hernández-León | University of California, Los Angeles

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies and the UCLA Department of Sociology

UCLA Lewis Center Informal City Speakers Series: To Regulate or Not: Day Labor, Worker Centers and Inequality

Abel Valenzuela | University of California, Los Angeles

Presented by the UCLA Lewis Center. Cosponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

UCLA Lewis Center Informal City Speakers Series: Tending to Life and Plants in Los Angeles: Latino Immigrant Workers and Gardeners

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo | University of Southern California

Presented by the UCLA Lewis Center. Cosponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Book Talk - "States' Gains, Labor's Losses: China, France, Mexico Choose Global Liaisons, 1980 - 2000"

Dorothy Solinger | University of California, Irvine

Cosponsored by the UCLA Asia Institute, the UCLA Department of Political Science, the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies and the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies

"Understanding the Brazilian Labor Success Story"

Paulo Baltar | Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Centro de Estudos Sindicais e de Economica do Trabalho

Cosponsored by the UCLA Latin American Institute and UCLA International Development Studies

UCLA Lewis Center Informal City Speakers Series: The Garage Sale

Margaret Crawford | University of California, Berkeley

Presented by the UCLA Lewis Center. Cosponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

UCLA Lewis Center Informal City Speakers Series: The Informal as Praxis

Teddy Cruz | University of California, San Diego

Presented by the UCLA Lewis Center. Cosponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

UCLA Lewis Center Informal City Speakers Series: Together - The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation

Richard Sennett | New York University & London School of Economics

Presented by the UCLA Lewis Center. Cosponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

"Working for Nothing: The Latest Fast-Growth Sector?"

Andrew Ross | New York University

Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology

Book Talk: "Urban Sustainability in the Age of Climate Justice: Lessons from Metro Phoenix"

Andrew Ross | New York University

Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Urban Planning, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and The Lewis Center

December 1

Who is Occupy? Profile of Users of the Occupy Wall Street Website: A Window into the Demographics of an Evolving Movement

Héctor Cordero-Guzmán | Baruch College, CUNY

Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology and the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies

Annual Ben Aaron Labor Law Lecture: "Rhetoric, Reaction and Rule of Law at the NLRB"

Wilma Liebman | Former Chair, National Labor Relations Board

Cosponsored by the Labor & Employment Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Project on Work and Employment Regulation, UCLA School of Law

Book Talk -"Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America About Democracy"

Paul Apostolidis | Whitman College
Victor Narro | UCLA Labor Center

Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Political Science and the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies

October 17

"New Zealand's Lessons for the US: Bringing Democratic Representation into Non-Majority American Workplaces"

Mark Harcourt | Waikato Management School, New Zealand

Cosponsored by the UCLA Anderson School of Management Human Resources and Organizational Behavior area

August 29

"More Than a Labor of Love: Organizing Home Care"

Eileen Boris | University of California, Santa Barbara

Presented by the UCLA School of Law. Cosponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

June 1

"Which Way Forward for Swedish Unions? A Power Resources Perspective"

Erik Bengtsson | University of Gothenburg

Cosponsored by the UCLA Sociology Working Group on Labor and Social Movements and the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies

May 27-28

"Labor in the Global South: A Search for Solutions"

A global, interdisciplinary graduate student research conference

Presented by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and cosponsored by the UCLA Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)

May 25

"Building 'Welfare Power' in 1960s Los Angeles: The Strategic Alliance between the Chicana Welfare Rights Organization and the Social Workers Local 535"

Alejandra Marchevsky | California State University, Los Angeles

Cosponsored by the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and the Department of Social Welfare at the UCLA School of Public Affairs

May 19

UCLA Labor Center 2011 Banquet

Honoring: Mike Eng, Assembly Member California 49th District; Kamala Harris, Attorney General, State of California; Sid C. Stopler, Business Manager/Financial Secretary-Treasurer, Southern California Pip Trades District Council 16

"The Immigrant Rights Protests of 2006: Explanatory Quandaries and Future Prospects"

Kim Voss | University of California, Berkeley
Gaspar Rivera-Salgado | UCLA Labor Center

Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology

May 11

Book Talk: "Reds, Whites, and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music and Race in the United States"

William G. Roy | University of California, Los Angeles

Cosponsored with the UCLA Sociology Working Group on Labor and Social Movements

Workers' Memorial Day

Ellen Widess | Cal/OSHA

Other events include a litany of names, community altar, symbolic funeral procession and community forum

Presented by the Southern California Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health

"Worker Health & Public Policy: Still a Burning Issue?"

Linda Delp | UCLA LOSH

E. Richard Brown | UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Ellen Widess | Cal/OSHA

Panelists: CHIRLA/Domestic Workers Alliance California Bill of Rights, CLEAN Carwash Campaign, Don't Waste LA Campaign

Presented by UCLA LOSH and cosponsored by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, the UCLA Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the UCLA School of Public Health. Endorsed by the UCLA History Department

"A New Industrial Democracy? Recent Trends and Changes in the French Labor Movement"

Karel Yon | Lille Center for Politics and Administration

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for French and Francophone Studies, Department of Political Science, the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies and the UCLA Sociology Working Group on Labor and Social Movements

"Public Sector Workers - Over Fed or Fed Up?"

Dan Mitchell | UCLA Anderson School of Management
Goetz Wolff | UCLA Public Policy
Nelson Lichtenstein | UC Santa Barbara Department of History;
David Lewin | UCLA Anderson School of Management
Kathy Stone | UCLA School of Law

Presented by the UCLA School of Law Project on Work and Employment Regulation Forum and cosponsored by the UCLA School of Law Epstein Public Interest Law Program and the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

"Seeking Spatial Justice: Labor-Community Coalition Building in Los Angeles, 1965-2010"

Edward Soja | UCLA Department of Urban Planning
Madeline Janis | Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE)

Cosponsored by the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, UCLA Department of Urban Planning and the UCLA Department of Georgraphy

"Lula's Hegemony and Brazilian Labor Relations: The Case of Call Centers and their Unions"

Ruy Braga | University of São Paulo

Cosponsored by the Department of Sociology and the UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies

Conference - "Reconnecting to Work: Consequences of Long-Term Unemployment and Prospects for Job Creation"

Cosponsors: University of California, Irvine, Department of Sociology; University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Affairs; University of California, Los Angeles College of Letters and Science, Division of Social Science; University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Economics; University of California, Santa Barbara, Center for the Study of Work, Labor, & Democracy; University of California, San Diego, Department of Sociology; and University of Southern California Program for Environmental and Regional Equity.

Panel: "Defending the American Dream: Government Enforcement of Workplace Rights in an Age of Income Inequality"

Andrew Elmore | New York State Office of the Attorney General
Julia Figueira-McDonough | Office of the Los Angeles City Attorney David Weil | Boston University

Presented with the UCLA School of Law Public Interest Program

''The Prospects for Domestic Regulation of Labor Standards in a Globalized Labor Market"

David Weil | Boston University

Presented with the UCLA School of Law Globalization and Labor Standards Program and the UCLA School of Law Epstein Public Interest Law Program

"The South Korean Labor Movement: Recent Struggles and the Challenges of "Marginal" Workers"

Sim Sangjeung | New Progressive Party of Korea

Cosponsored by the Center for Korean Studies and the Department of Political Science

"Toward a Tripartite Labor Relations System with Chinese Characteristics"

Jian Qiao | Chinese Institute of Industrial Relations

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, UCLA International Development Studies Program and the Anderson School Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)

Film Screening - “Harvest of Loneliness: The Bracero Program”

Gilbert Gonzalez | University of California, Irvine
Vivian Price | California State University, Dominguez Hills

Cosponsored by the UCLA Migration Study Group

"Work-Family Conflict: A Parent's Problem"

Tamar Kremer-Sadlik | UCLA Center on Everyday Lives of Families

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center on Everyday Lives of Families, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Department of Anthropology