Biography

Paolo Marinaro is a Lecturer in the UCLA Labor Studies Program and a labor rights expert with over a decade of experience building trade union power and transnational solidarity across global supply chains. His research focuses on global workers’ rights, free trade agreements, international labor rights enforcement mechanisms and worker organizing in the digital economy.

Paolo has taught courses on labor, globalization, technology and social movements in Italy, Mexico and the United States. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a Master’s degree from the University of Turin, Italy.

At UCLA, Paolo teaches courses examining how globalization, technological change and transformations in the organization of work are reshaping workers’ rights and strategies for building worker power. His teaching connects academic research with the experiences and perspectives of workers, organizers and trade union leaders in the United States and internationally.

Paolo is also the Mexico Country Program Director for the Solidarity Center, AFL-CIO, where he leads initiatives to advance freedom of association and collective bargaining, strengthen international advocacy and build worker power across transnational supply chains.

Courses Taught

LBR STD 101: Introduction to Labor and Social Movements in Los Angeles

LBR STD M190A – M190B – M190C Community Engaged Research in Practice: Introduction to Labor Movements and Transnational Campaigns in Mexico and the US

LBR STD 188: Labor and Globalization

LBR STD 188: Labor in the Digital Economy: Algorithmic Management, Artificial Intelligence and Workers’ Rights