Paula Winicki Brzostowski is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow housed in the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UC Los Angeles. She specializes in labor, race, immigration and social movements. Her dissertation, “The Power of Organizing: Immigrant, Formerly Incarcerated, and Temp Workers on Strike,” explores the impact of labor campaigns on workers’ trust in labor organizations and their outcomes.
As a postdoctoral fellow, Winicki Brzostowski is extending her current research project by completing additional follow-up interviews with workers about the outcome of a campaign to organize precarious warehouse workers. In particular, she is investigating the impact of a failed labor campaign: how this outcome shapes the workers’ trust in labor organizations, collective action and labor rights, as well as the implications for their future involvement in the labor movement.
Winicki Brzostowski obtained her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. in City Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.
