Our Projects

The ReWork research team employs the principles of research justice — recognizing students, workers, and community members as experts, approaching research as a tool for action, and promoting equal access to information.

The Dream Resource Center trains immigrant youth and allies to be at the forefront of social justice movements and achieve equity and justice for workers, families, and communities.

Through a school to movement pathway of service, teaching, capacity building and research, the Center for the Advancement of Racial Equity (CARE) at Work reveals conditions of Black work in Southern California under global racial capitalism and models approaches for change.

The Prosperity, Opportunity, and Worker Equity Reimagined (POWER) in Workforce Development team focuses on institutionalizing solutions that align with the high road training partnership (HRTP) framework to address systemic issues that limit economic outcomes for the most marginalized communities in California.

The Global Solidarity project collaborates with labor leaders, scholars, and activists to address common worker issues in the United States, Mexico, and the Pacific Rim.

For the past decade, Re:Work, the UCLA Labor Center podcast, has elevated stories of work to humanize and break down economic and racial justice issues. Each episode centers the life story of a worker or activist, with a focus on people of the global majority, through curated interviews punctuated with host reflections, music, and archival tape.

The Asian American Racial Justice project at the UCLA Labor Center focuses on building a more progressive labor movement by amplifying the voices of API workers and interconnecting economic and racial justice issues.

The UCLA Labor Center’s Young Worker Initiative strengthens the labor movement’s school-to-movement pathway by providing classroom curricula and know-your-rights trainings to middle and high school students in California, as well as educational workshops to community members.

The Nonviolence Education Project empowers students to channel their passion for justice into collective action, through promoting nonviolent strategies to advance human dignity at the local, state, and national level.