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SUMMARY:Labor Studies Now – Frame Backfire: The Trouble with Civil Rights Appeals in the Contemporary United States
DESCRIPTION:Frame Backfire: The Trouble with Civil Rights Appeals in the Contemporary United States \nWhile many scholars and activists consider civil rights to be a powerful\, effective way to frame diverse causes in the United States\, little is known about the contemporary resonance of civil rights appeals. In this talk\, I will argue that civil rights can be understood in three non-mutually exclusive ways: as a “master” frame that appeals to core American ideals\, as a reference to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement\, and as racialized messaging. Drawing on survey experiments conducted at two different points in time\, I will show that respondents express highly positive views of civil rights and broad agreement that civil rights are about equal rights. Yet\, framing a person’s contemporary problems—including unequal treatment at work—as civil rights violations reduces support for government intervention.  Civil rights framing is counterproductive across diverse issues\, beneficiaries\, and audiences. These findings complicate dominant assumptions about frame resonance\, cannot be adequately explained through a racialized backlash account\, and carry implications for collective memory scholars and activists. In closing\, I will reflect on why the public responds negatively to civil rights appeals despite positive sentiment toward the abstract idea. \nSpeaker biography: Kim Voss is professor of sociology at the University of California\, Berkeley\, specializing in the study of labor\, social movements\, inequality\, and higher education.  In addition to publishing in academic journals in sociology\, political science\, and demography\, she has written or edited six books\, including Rallying for Immigrant Rights (2011\, with I. Bloemraad)\, Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement (2006\, with R. Fantasia)\, Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth (1996\, with five Berkeley colleagues)\, and The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century (1993). She is currently working on a book about immigration and social movements. \nDate: March 5 \, 2026\nTime: 12 – 1:30 pm\nLocation: Rolfe Hall 2125\nRSVP HERE!
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LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 2125
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SUMMARY:UCLA Industry Power Research Bootcamp
DESCRIPTION:Industry Power Research Bootcamp\nConvened by the UCLA Strategic Research Lab\nJoin the labor and other social movement researchers from around the country to learn the best ways to approach industry-based research and apply your findings to build industry-wide power. \nAs the NLRB continues to come under attack\, unions and other labor groups that organize are increasingly looking at industries\, not companies. To succeed\, we need to understand how industries work and what powers and limitations come with a sectoral approach to campaigning. \nIn this five-day training\, you will learn the basics of how to research an industry and explain your findings to members and other staff. We will bring expert campaigners to discuss key aspects of sectoral research\, including: \n\nBounding your industry and understanding the product\nHow to think about supply chains\nSpatial concentration and its effects on bosses and workers\nIntersections between your industry and government regulators and policymakers\nConsiderations behind sectoral standards campaigns\n\nThe camp is designed for any movement researchers\, strategic campaigners\, activists\, or organizers wanting to better understand how to think about sector-wide strategies. \nThe 2026 Industry Research Power Bootcamp applications window has closed. Stay tuned for information about future camps offered by the UCLA Strategic Research Lab and our annual Strategic Labor Research Conference! \n\nAbout The UCLA Strategic Research Lab:\nThe UCLA Strategic Research Lab is a capacity-building training hub and network for researchers from labor and community-based organizations. As a research unit of a public university\, the SRL seeks to train strategic researchers for the common good. Besides the Coding Camp for Union Research\, the Strategic Research Lab also holds its annual Strategic Labor Research Conference\, one of the largest annual convenings of labor and movement researchers in the nation. \nSign up for email updates for other Strategic Research Lab events and trainings here. 
URL:https://dev.laborstudies.ucla.edu/event/ucla-industry-power-research-bootcamp/
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