The UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment supports faculty and graduate student research on employment and labor topics in a variety of academic disciplines. The Institute also sponsors colloquia, conferences and other public programming, is home to the undergraduate minor in Labor and Workplace Studies at UCLA, and carries out educational outreach on workplace issues to constituencies outside the university. The Institute, in addition to the Academic Unit, includes three affiliate organizations: the UCLA Labor Center, the Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program, and the Human Resources Round Table.

News & Announcements

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IRLE Mourns Rick Brown

The IRLE community is deeply saddened to mourn the passing of E. Richard (Rick) Brown, an IRLE Faculty Advisory Committee member and long-time supporter of the work of the Institute. Rick was a leading scholar and researcher on health policy and a powerful advocate for health reform. Rick founded the UCLA Center for Health Policy Reform in 1994, was principal investigator of the California Health Interview Survey, and advised the Clinton and Obama administrations and a number of senators on health care reform. Although he had stepped back to Director Emeritus status at the Center, he remained actively engaged in research and in policy debates, as well as continuing to offer sage counsel to IRLE. He died suddenly of a massive stroke while giving a talk on health policy issues in Kentucky. Many in the IRLE community knew Rick and his wife Marianne Brown personally; condolences can be addressed to Marianne and the family at 1348 Hill Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or by email to Marianne.P.Brown@gmail.com.

UCLA IRLE Research Associate Selected to be ASA-NSF Posdoctoral Fellow

Barry Eidlin, PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a UCLA IRLE Research Associate, has been selected as an American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. He was one of six fellows chosen nationwide. He will be housed in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he will continue his research under the mentorship of Erik Olin Wright and Joel Rogers. Plans for his fellowship tenure include revising his dissertation manuscript on class politics in the U.S. and Canada for publication as a book, as well as launching a new project examining the politics of fiscal austerity in comparative and historical perspective

UCLA Library acquires Justice for Janitors papers

The UCLA Library Special Collections has acquired the archive of the Justice for Janitors campaign in Los Angeles. The archives were donated by the Service Employees International Union United Service Workers West after collaborating with the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment on a research project that included research on the campaign, oral histories with workers and cataloguing  by UCLA graduate and undergraduate students.  "The Justice for Janitors records will be an outstanding resource for scholars and the public,"said Tobias Higbie, an associate professor of history and associate director of IRLE. Read the press release.