2009 Student Mini-Grants Awardees
Principal Investigator(s) |
Department |
Project Title |
| Kyle Arnone | Sociology |
Bridging the Blue/Green Divide: The Campaign to Organize Port Truck Drivers on California's Waterfront |
Kevin Barry, Chloe Osmer, Marcy Koukhab |
Public Policy |
Analysis of AB 1688: The Car Wash Worker Law |
| Abigail Cooke | Geography |
Impacts of trade wage inequality across US States: Analysis using matched employer-employee data |
| Kjerstin Elmen-Gruys | Sociology | Too Fat for Management? Gendered Size Discrimination on the Shop Floor |
| Jennifer Goldstein | Geography |
Direct Trade" practices in the international coffee industry -- a way out of North-South inequality? |
| Shanna Gong | Sociology |
Movement, Market or State: Urban Agricultural Movements in the US and China |
| Zevi Gutfreund | History |
The Language Politics of Americanization: The Rise and Resistance of Educational Inequality in Los Angeles |
Anna Kim |
Urban Planning |
Investigating the Informal/Formal Divide: Blended Labor Market Participation in an Ethnic Enclave |
| PuongThao Le | Applied Mathematics |
Effectiveness and Implications of Family Leave Policies on Parents of Newborns and Parents of Children with Special Health Care Needs |
| Rennie Lee | Sociology |
Worker Relations in a Chinese Restaurant |
| Caroline Luce | History |
Food and Labor Union Iconography: Bagels and American Jewish identity in the 20th century |
| Hasan Mahmud | Sociology |
Economic Participation and Mobility Among Bangladeshi Immigrants in Los Angeles |
| Sarah Morando | Sociology |
The Second Generation at Work: the Early Employment Careers of Children of Immigrants |
| Lisa Mueller | Political Science |
Hidden Class Struggles: The Politics of Labor and Ethnicity in Contemporary Africa |
| Selena Ortiz | Health Sciences |
The Economic Consequences of Lost Wages among Mexican American Families with An Autistic Child |
| Caitlin Patler | Sociology |
Young and Undocumented: The Effects of Illegal Immigration Status On Mobility and Claims-Making in Los Angeles’ Low-Wage Labor Markets |
| Adam Richards | Health Sciences |
Defining the occupational health and chronic disease priorities of day laborers in Los Angeles: a mixed methods study conducted in partnership with the Institute of Popular Education of Southern California |
| Elena Shih | Sociology |
Humanitarian Work: The Production and Consumption of Jewelry Made by Trafficked Women |
| Julia Tomassetti | Sociology |
The Union Avoidance Industry in Los Angeles |
| Ming-Hong Tsai | Anderson School of Management |
Group Composition, Decision Rules, and Employees’ Cooperation |
| Yuki Yanai | Political Science |
Redistributive Consequences of Economic Inequality: An Examination of Individuals’ Attitudes |
