Conference: Race, Labor and the Law

UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment presents its 2014 conference on Race, Labor and the Law. Co-sponsored by the Critical Race Studies Program at UCLA School of Law, the conference will take place at UCLA on Friday and Saturday, February 28 and March 1, 2014. 

Join leading legal scholars, social scientists, humanists and practitioners for a reframing of the relationship between race, gender, class and labor in the United States. Through interdisciplinary approaches to the subject, panelists will examine these interlocking forms of oppression; consider how the interplay between them shapes labor markets, labor hierarchies and labor and employment law; and investigate the repressive and insurgent forces involved. Panels will discuss U.S. labor, race, gender and class matters in relation to the transformation of the labor movement; immigration; the rights of indigenous peoples in the U.S.; worker voice and labor speech; prison labor and re-entry; intimate labor; and women in low wage work and organizing.

Speakers include: Ruben J. Garcia, Sameer Ashar, Eileen Boris, Grace Chang, Hector Cordero-Guzman, Nicholas Espiritu, Catherine Fisk, Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Sarah Haley, Camille Gear Rich, Shannon Gleeson, Wendy Greene, David Kamper, Marta Lopez Garza, Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Mireille Miller-Young, Hiroshi Motomura, Leticia M. Saucedo, Elena Shih, and Lynn Stephen.

The CSRC is a co-sponsor of this event.

For more information, visit the IRLE website. To register, click here.