UC-AFT Member Spotlight
December 2010
UC-AFT Member Spotlight
David Rosenfeld
California Workers’ Rights: A Manual of Job Rights, Protections and Remedies
The UCB Labor Center just published the revised and updated 4th edition of “California Workers’ Rights,” which UC-AFT member David Rosenfeld co-authored with Miles Locker, and Nina G. Fendel. David Rosenfeld, a practicing union attorney and partner in the East Bay labor law firm Weinberg Roger and Rosenfeld, has been teaching labor law at the Berkeley Law School since 2005. He and his co-authors have been strong advocates for workers’ rights for decades. California Workers’ Rights” is a basic but thorough overview of the legal protections workers currently have under California and federal law. California Labor Federation Secretary-Treasurer Art Pulaski calls it “one of the most useful books California workers will ever encounter.” The book can be ordered at http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu. Other books by Rosenfeld include “Offensive Bargaining” and “Offensive Use of the California Labor Code.”
Joi Barrios
Flowers in Water: Poems of Love and Revolt
Joi Barrios has been a lecturer of Filipino and Philippine literature in the South and Southeast Asian Studies Department at UCB since 2008. Before that, she taught as an associate professor at the University of the Philippines. Dr. Barrios recently published her third poetry collection in Filipino, with accompanying English translations by UC Irvine Ph.D. candidate Mark Pangilinan. Neferti Tadiar of Columbia University called Barrios “one of the most influential and major voices in Philippine feminist poetry. . . . [I]n bringing together the unforgettable laments and protests, cries of anger and consolation, and songs of love and solidarity that she has penned and performed over the last few decades of feminist and nationalist struggle, Barrios offers us a poignant, vivid and inspiring chronicle of the life force of sentiment that is the hidden and yet indispensable force of political commitment and community.” In 1998, Barrios was a recipient of the "Weaver of History" award given by the Philippine Centennial Commission Women's Sector as one of the 100 women who contributed to the development of the Philippine nation in the 20th century.
March 2009
UC-AFT Member Spotlight
Carole Paul
The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour, Ashgate 2008
Carole Paul has been a lecturer in Art History at UCSB since 1994. She recently published a beautiful and meticulously researched book detailing the late-eighteenth-century redecoration of the exhibition spaces at the Borghese palace and villa in Rome and the reinstallation of the family's vast art collection. This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of Italian art at a complex moment of transition from baroque to neoclassical style, as well as to the emerging field of museum history, demonstrating that these spaces were among the most influential models of the modern art museum. Carole’s book is available through Ashgate's website (www.ashgate.com). She continues her examination of the origins of modern public museums in her current project, an anthology that she is editing on The First Modern Museums of Art: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Formation of an Institution.
February 2009
UC-AFT Member Spotlight
Immigrant Lives in O.C. and Beyond – Curated by UCI Librarian, Daniel Tsang
UC Irvine Librarian Daniel Tsang has curated an exhibit on immigration and labor in Orange County. The exhibit examines the history of immigration in the County since the 19th century, highlighting immigrants' own stories, the plight of the undocumented, public policy issues, and the role of gender in migration. Tsang emigrated from Hong Kong in the 1960’s, and joined UCI in 1986, so the exhibit is reflective of his life as well as his work. In fact, many of displayed materials come from his personal collection from rallies and other events in O.C. “I believe it is important to be both an archivist and an activist; I am happy that in this exhibit, I am able to bring both my work and my activism together, in highlighting the contributions made by workers in creating a now very diverse O.C.” Housed in the Muriel Ansley Reynolds Exhibit Gallery, the exhibit will be on display in the main lobby of Langson Library until May 2009. For more information on the exhibit follow this link: http://www.uci.edu/features/feature_immigrationexhibit_081114.php