Programs

California's Living New Deal Project
The Living New Deal Project is an unprecedented and growing collaborative effort to identify, map, and interpret the vast public works legacy of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal in California, as well as to demonstrate how other states and municipalities can do the same.

California Public Employee Relations
The leading journal covering California public sector labor relations issues.

California Studies Center
Conducts interdisciplinary research on California as a region.

Center for Culture, Organizations & Politics
Focuses on how new social spaces emerge, form, and are transformed.

Center for Labor Economics
Promotes research labor market issues and policies.

Center for Labor Research and Education, also known as The Labor Center
A public service and outreach program providing research and information on unions and the changing workforce for students, scholars, policymakers and the public.

Center for Research in International Labor and Industrial Relations
IRLE Director Emeritus LLoyd Ulman formed this program in 1999 to bring together scholars from around the world to exchange views at a small international conference.

Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
Focuses on issues relating to teachers and providers working in center-based and home-based early care and education settings in the United States.

Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics
IRLE's newest center conducts research on workforce dynamics and compensation issues.

Center for Work, Technology and Society
IRLE Director Emeritus Clair Brown chairs WTS, and conducts extensive field work in the U.S. and Pacific Rim.

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society
The Institute's academic journal, is in its fourty-fourth year of publication. Each issue includes research articles, notes, and symposia on all aspects of employment relations and the labor market.

Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library
The Library offers research support, a large Library Commons, and is IRLE's digital publisher.

Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop
Founded by Sociology Professor Irene Bloemraad, the Workshop provides students with a multi-disciplinary forum for collaboration.

John F. Henning Center for International Labor Relations
A Labor Center initiative with an international focus.

Labor Project for Working Families
Promotes better work and family policies and programs, including paid family leave, child care, elder care and flexible work schedules.

Work & Health Initiative
Policy research, public service, and community education in workers' compensation, with projects focusing in particular on the return-to-work process and legal services for injured workers.