Valenzuela Named Director of IRLE

The CSRC congratulates Abel Valenzuela, Jr. on his new appointment as director of UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE). Valenzuela, who is a professor of urban planning and Chicana/o studies at UCLA, was previously chair of the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies and is a longstanding member of the CSRC Faculty Advisory Committee. Through the CSRC, he has conducted two studies on the complexity of the immigrant employer/immigrant employee relationship in Southern California carwashes.

More information on the appointment can be found here.