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- Advance Praise for The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Labor Law Is Out of Date
- Part III The “Fissured” Workplace
- Part IV Barriers to Forming a Collective Bargaining Relationship
- Part V Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract
- Part VI Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
- 28 Can Labor Law Reform Encourage Robust Economic Democracy?
- 29 Union Security for the Twenty-First Century
- 30 Union Membership and the Ghent System
- 31 Principled Hope
- 32 Politically Engaged Unionism
- 33 Union Commitment to Racial Diversity
- 34 The Economics of Minimum Wage Regulations
- 35 The Role of Labor Research and Education in the Labor Movement of the Twenty-First Century
35 - The Role of Labor Research and Education in the Labor Movement of the Twenty-First Century
The UCLA Labor Center and the CLEAN Carwash Campaign
from Part VI - Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 November 2019
- Advance Praise for The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Labor Law Is Out of Date
- Part III The “Fissured” Workplace
- Part IV Barriers to Forming a Collective Bargaining Relationship
- Part V Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract
- Part VI Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
- 28 Can Labor Law Reform Encourage Robust Economic Democracy?
- 29 Union Security for the Twenty-First Century
- 30 Union Membership and the Ghent System
- 31 Principled Hope
- 32 Politically Engaged Unionism
- 33 Union Commitment to Racial Diversity
- 34 The Economics of Minimum Wage Regulations
- 35 The Role of Labor Research and Education in the Labor Movement of the Twenty-First Century
Summary
In this chapter, I argue that the role of labor research and education in revitalizing the labor movement in the twenty-first century is more important than ever. I will support this argument using as a case study the CLEAN Carwash Campaign, a project launched by the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education (UCLA Labor Center), where I have served as the Project Director for the last fifteen years. The CLEAN Carwash Campaign led to the first-ever union for carwash workers. This chapter will focus on its trajectory, including the important role played by students from the Labor and Workplace Studies Program at UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) and other student internship programs. Using this example, the chapter will show how labor research and education can foster the next generation of union organizers and worker leaders to revitalize the labor movement.
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