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UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
For over 70 years, the IRLE has conducted timely and impactful research on labor markets and how work impacts workers and their families. As home to the UCLA Labor Center, our research on immigrants, young people, and low-wage workers has driven policy change, including minimum wage, paid sick leave, and wage theft.
Through the UCLA Labor Studies Program, we place over 300 students into internships in social justice and governmental organizations across the country every year. The IRLE’s Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program has trained thousands of workers on health and safety measures that are sometimes the difference between life and death. And, the Human Resources Roundtable works with companies to recruit and retain diverse, skilled workforces nationwide.
Memory Work Los Angeles
Memory Work Los Angeles brings together historians, social scientists, activists, and community memory keepers to reclaim the past, understand the present, and change the future of work and working people. In collaborative research, document changing ways of work, worker organizing, and struggles to win equal treatment and full citizenship for all in our multi-racial society. Through courses and events, we train community members and UCLA students to be critical memory workers able to research and communicate evidence-based stories from the past that matter to our present. We celebrate and support the work of remembrance carried on by others, and aim to inspire many ways of seeing the past around us. Using digital tools, we make the products of our community-engaged research—including oral histories, digitized artifacts from community collections, and scholarly studies based on them— accessible to students, scholars, teachers, and community organizers.
Labor Studies at UCLA
The Labor Studies major and minor offer UCLA undergraduates an opportunity to learn about the workplace and the social, political, and economic forces that influence it. The program—which includes courses, a summer research program, and service-learning internships— places emphasis on the labor market, public policy, employment relations, unions, and working-class movements. It also explores issues of race, class, and gender in the workplace.
Other Initiatives
The UCLA Labor Center creates innovative programs that offer a range of educational, research, and public service activities within the university and in the broader community, especially among low-wage and immigrant workers. The Labor Center is a vital resource for research, education, and policy development to help create jobs that are good for workers and their communities, to improve the quality of existing jobs in the low-wage economy, and to strengthen the process of immigrant integration, especially among students and youth.
UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program collaborates with workers, unions, community organizations, employers, academics, students, governmental representatives, and health professionals to improve health and safety conditions for workers in Southern California. Initiatives include health and safety training, education for low-income, minority, and immigrant workers, public advocacy, and participation in industry-wide research relating to policy issues in California.
UCLA Human Resources Round Table is an organization of Senior Human Resources Executives from leading corporate, non-profit and public organizations that is dedicated to the advancement of human resources management through a partnership with prominent academics and thought leaders.
