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The Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) was established at the end of World War II in 1945. Located on the University of California, Los Angeles campus a public research school in Southern California. It is formerly known as the Institute for Industrial Relations (IIR), it is housed jointly at both the UCLA and UC Berkeley campuses. The IRLE's founding director was Clark Kerr.

History:

 * Created at the peak of the labor movement following World War II, the emergence of "workers education is synonymous with the labor movement as a whole." In 1944 University President Gordon Sproul and California governor Earl Warden allocated $100, 000 towards the establishment of both Los Angeles and Berkeley's Institute for Industrial Relations after touring other labor programs across the United States. In 1946, the UCLA Institute came into play under director Paul Dodd, meanwhile Kerr remained at Berkeley.

Objectives:

 * The Institute for Research on Labor and Employment devotes itself to understanding and solving not only California's labor problems such as wage theft and immigration reform, but the issues around the nation. The UCLA Institute strives to further educate students and train workers about the current labor dilemmas, organizations such as unions as well as the challenges California's economy faces.

The IRLE focuses on three components:

 * Working with the community through University Extension programs, adult education, short courses and conferences.
 * Campus instruction that promotes faculty involvement, library services and graduate student support.
 * Research, to provide effective methods of research such as the use of the University of California Labor and Employment Research Fund (LERF) which successfully digitized a large percent of the Institution's publications.