Talk: Ruth Milkman Presents "Labor Studies in the 2020s: Achievements and Challenges"

Event Date: 
Thursday, January 29, 2026 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Event Location: 
130 Haines Hall

Ruth Milkman is one of the world’s foremost sociologists of labor and labor movements, having written extensively on various topics related to work and organized labor in the United States, past and present. Her most recent books are Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat (Polity, 2020) and On Gender, Labor and Inequality (Illinois, 2016).

She was the 2016 President of the American Sociological Association and director of the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment from 2001 to 2008, when she was on the faculty in the Department of Sociology. She is currently Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, where she chairs the Labor Studies Department. 

This talk is part of the Labor Studies Now lecture series organized by the UCLA Department of Labor Studies. This event is cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.

To register: bit.ly/LSNOW-MILKMAN

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