Work and Labour Studies Trek-to-Ottawa, 06-08 March 2020 (video)

Work and Labour Studies Trek-to-Ottawa, 06-08 March 2020. View the slideshow video on YouTube.

Department of Social Science's 3rd Annual Book Celebration 2020

Join WKLS program coordinator Professor Carlo Fanelli and others on January 23 to help celebrate their books published this past year. Light refreshments will be served. More information at this link.

Linda McQuaig book talk November 28, 2019

Read the Yfile story.

Work and Labour Studies Student Association (WLSSA) General Meeting 04 November 2019

Work and Labour Studies Students are invited to come out to form this year's Work and Labour Studies Student Association (WLSSA). We will be meeting on Monday, November 4 at 13:00 in North Ross 829. The meeting will run for approximately 30-45 mins. The purpose of the meeting is to elect students to serve on […]

Book Launch: Change and Continuity - Political Economy in the New Millennium

The Global Labour Speaker Series welcomes one and all to their latest book launch on Wednesday, October 23 from 16:30-18:30 at Kaneff Tower 519. Links to the event poster and Eventbrite registration.

Join us for our annual WKLS Meet & Greet 30 September 2019

Join us for our annual Meet & Greet on September 30 from 11:30-13:00 in 701 Ross South. See poster for more information. 

Prof. Carlo Fanelli: Leaders Serious About Tackling Low-Wage Work Should Embrace Unions (Huffington Post)

Read Carlo Fanelli's Huffington Post op-ed "Leaders Serious About Tackling Low-Wage Work Should Embrace Unions".

Prof. Carlo Fanelli: Lower Wages, Less Job Security: More Than 2 Million Canadians Worked in Temporary Jobs Last Year (Press Progress)

‘This inequality is not accidental’: Canadian workers stuck in temporary jobs earn $6 per hour less than permanent workers. More than one-in-eight Canadian employees worked a temporary job in 2018, earning on average $6 per hour less than those working permanent jobs. According to a report by Statistics Canada, published Tuesday, the percentage of Canadian workers […]

Prof. Carlo Fanelli: The Ford government’s punishing first budget aligns with the global trend of authoritarian right-wing populism. It’s more like ‘permanent austerity.’ (Policy Options)

So much for ‘austerity-light’ in Ontario - The Ford government’s punishing first budget aligns with the global trend of authoritarian right-wing populism. It’s more like ‘permanent austerity.’ One eminent conservative scholar of public budgeting characterized annual budgets as a record of “victories, defeats, bargains and compromises.” Ontario’s 2019 Budget, the first of the new Conservative government of […]

Inaugural Work and Labour Studies Undergraduate Conference - 2019

On March 14 the program held its Inaugural Undergraduate Conference. Check out the photos and poster.