Research
Featured ResearchThis report is a result of the research project by former IRLE Director, Ruth Milkman, Downtown Labor Center's Victor Narro and UCLA doctoral student Ana Luz González.
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Working paper by IRLE Visiting Scholar, Jin Nam Choi of Seoul National University.
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Research Affiliates & Visiting Scholars
IRLE Research Affiliates form a community of scholars conducting research and dialogue on issues of work and employment. Though most are based at UCLA, the IRLE network extends nationally and globally. IRLE Visiting Scholars spend from a month to a year in residence at UCLA IRLE working on a research project and interacting with UCLA scholars and students. Please click on the above links to see who is contributing to academic successes of IRLE.
IRLE supported research
IRLE is committed to advancing the knowledge of the labor and employment issues. Grants provided and distributed by IRLE allow UCLA faculty and graduate students organize conferences, complete books, and carry out new and fascinating research. Please see below for more details on the most recent faculty and student grant awardes.
Current Research Projects
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The Retail Workforce.This study is part of a larger multinational effort examining the retail workforce in Denmark, France, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom as well as the United States, and comparing new developments in these countries. It is led by the IRLE Director, Chris Tilly and funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, the largest foundation entirely devoted to funding social science research.
- Employment and Regional Development in the United States and Mexico. This research project, led by IRLE Director, Chris Tilly, compares the two countries, particularly from the perspective of employment, and attempts to create intellectual linkages among scholars and practitioners in the two countries.
- Job Quality and Inequality. This research project is led by IRLE Director, Chris Tilly and
has resulted in a series of related papers and a recently published book:"The Gloves-Off Economy: Problems and Possibilities at the Bottom of the American Labor Market."
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California Family Leave Research Project With funding from the Sloan Foundation and the National Institute for Child Health and Development, the California Family Leave Research Project has conducted research on California's paid family leave program.
- Black and Latino Workers in Mississippi Poultry: Transnational Migration, Political Economies of Race, and Low-Wage Legacies of the South
This dissertation research by the former IRLE postdoctoral fellow, Angela Stuesse has been funded by IRLE, the Ford Foundation, School for Advanced Research, Social Science Research Council, Society for the Anthropology of North America, and the University of Texas at Austin. Upon its completion, it will be presented in the form of various articles and a book.
Database Projects
- Globalization and Labor Standards (GALS)
This web database contains abstracts of articles, books, and working papers on international labor rights and global labor standards.
- Golden-Wallerstein-Lange Project on Unions, Employers, Collective Bargaining, and Industrial Relations
A database of labor relations indicators in sixteen European countries.
Please vist our Publications page to see the outcome of already completed research projects.
