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UCLA School of Law panel spotlights the disparate impact of sexual harassment and assault on racial minorities, low-wage workers and immigrants.

Center for Neighborhood Knowledge report provides a snapshot of lingering inequality since the 1960s.

A new book co-authored by UCLA professor of urban planning Chris Tilly challenges the “myth of inevitability” for poor working conditions in America’s largest employment sector.

Since its founding, the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment has produced analytical research to shape public policy and public opinion on labor issues.

Q&A with UCLA professor Sarah Roberts, who has pioneered the study of the toll screening objectionable online content takes on the people who have to do it.

Finance professor Bhagwan Chowdhry says protectionist barriers won’t stop robots from taking U.S. jobs.

While California has been a winner in the free trade world market in terms of its agricultural exports, gains in technology and location on the Pacific rim in close proximity to Asia, manufacturing centers in the Midwest like Detroit have lost good-paying union jobs.

UCLA’s Leah Boustan looks at how the influx of millions of black workers from the South reshaped labor markets and neighborhoods in the North and West.

The acclaimed scholar of immigrant and low-wage workforce issues says he looks forward to studying the gig economy, young workers and immigrant workers.

More than 300 technology leaders, innovators, policymakers, journalists and academics will gather Friday at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion Club to share their ideas on closing the gender and diversity gap in the technology sector.

While University of California campuses have never asked about an applicant's criminal history as part of the application process, the practice is used by other universities.

A professor of urban planning and Chicana and Chicano studies, Valenzuela has played a leading role in elucidating the phenomenon of day labor.

UCLA Anderson alumna Sandy Tesch Wilkins is part of a solid core of Anderson students and alumni who are intent on putting their business skills to use in positive ways to have social impact.

Income equality is not the critical problem of our time, according to UCLA economist Lee E. Ohanian. There are greater public policy issues surrounding the nation's economic well-being.

Ten UCLA students completed the UCLA Labor Center’s “I Am a #YoungWorker” multimedia research project documenting the experiences of young people working in Los Angeles County.

A $570,000 grant will allow a team led by Edward Leamer of the UCLA Anderson School of Management to study the effects of a higher minimum wage by evaluating the ordinance in Los Angeles.

Why are working people falling behind? A leading UCLA researcher examines the causes of widening inequality.

For the past 60 years, a UCLA Extension program has been helping technical professionals develop the “people” skills they need to become excellent managers and team leaders.

Even if union workers are exempted from the city’s forthcoming minimum wage increase, study predicts, there would be minimal short-term impact on their salaries.

The Labor Studies Applied Research Methods course at the UCLA Labor Center introduces students to basic social science research methods by immersing them in a hands-on project to assist community organizations.

Tobias Higbie is a UCLA scholar of labor history who is using digitized historical records to gain new perspectives about labor and social movements of past eras.

'Re:Work,' a radio show produced by the UCLA Labor Center to highlight the contributions of workers in America, has won a national Gracie Award for Outstanding Portrait/Biography in the category for local, public and student radio and television.

In this satirical op-ed, emeritus professor Jack Rothman calls attention to the problem of growing inequality in the United States.

A national leader in identifying dangerous chemical exposures and then applying the findings toward regulations to protect health, John Froines has spent his career pursuing both.

Law professor Steven Bank proposes a compromise between Major League Soccer leadership and its players union that is inspired by how the University of California is structured.