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Valenzuela Studies Lives of Immigrant Workers
Posted on June 10, 2009
Abel Valenzuela, Jr., Professor of Chicano/a Studies and Urban Planning and Director of UCLA’s Center for the Study of Urban Poverty, has spent a good part of his life talking to immigrant laborers on the street corners of numerous U.S. cities, is an internationally renowned authority on their lives, especially the prejudices and abuses they suffer at work. He is one of the authors of “On the Corner: Day Labor in the United States,” the first national analysis of immigrant, mostly undocumented, day laborers, or jornaleros, which offers the most comprehensive and reliable portrait of these workers to date.
Valenzuela's most recent research revolves around the working conditions of car wash establishments in the city of Los Angeles.
Valenzuela was recently featured in UCLA Today, For the complete article on Valenzuela and his latest research visit the UCLA Today website.
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