Katherine Laxer
Katherine (Kate) Laxer has been teaching as contract faculty in the Department of Social Science since 2016. Beyond teaching, Kate is currently serving as an expert consultant with the Association of Ontario Midwives (AOM) for a pivotal pay equity case. She has taught at Brock University and McMaster University, contributing to undergraduate and graduate labour studies programs.
Kate’s teaching and research areas are centred on gender, care work, health and well-being, pay equity, labour relations, and research methodologies. She has collaborated on research projects focused on healthcare workers, women, and racialized groups, and she has contributed to the development of databases on gender, work, and precarious employment, facilitating cross-national and interdisciplinary analysis.
Kate’s teaching and research are informed by feminist political economy and intersectional analysis. She is currently a volunteer facilitator with the Sashbear Foundation, an organization dedicated to mental health and suicide prevention.
Publications:
T. Daly, S. Charlesworth, F. Jacobson and K. Laxer. (forthcoming). Counting Care Workers: When the ‘Muddle’ is the Message. S. Braedley and T. Daly (Eds.), Ageing Equitably: Power, Policy, Practice. Bristol University Press.
Jacobsen, F., S. Day, K. Laxer, L. Lloyd, M. Goldmann, M. Szebehely, J. Choiniere, P. Vaillancourt Rosenau. (2017). Job Autonomy of Long-Term Residential Care Assistive Personnel: A Six Country Comparison. Ageing International.
Laxer, K., F. F. Jacobsen, L. Lloyd, M. Goldmann, S. Day, J. A. Choiniere, and P. Vaillancourt Rosenau. (2016). Comparing Nursing Home Assistive Personnel in Five Countries. Ageing International.
Laxer, K. (2015). Who Counts in Care? Gender, power, and aging populations. In P. Armstrong and A. Pederson (Eds.), Women's Health: Intersections of Policy, Research and Practice, 2nd Edition. Toronto: Women’s Press.
Laxer, K. (2013). Counting Carers in Long-term Residential Care. In P. Armstrong and S. Braedley (Eds.), Troubling Care: Critical Perspectives on Research and Practices. Toronto: Women’s Press.
Armstrong, P. and K. Laxer. (2011). Precarious Work, Privatization, and the Health Care Industry: The Case of Ancillary Workers. In Vivian Shalla (Ed.), Working in a Global Era: Canadian Perspectives 2nd Edition. Toronto: Canadian Scholar’s Press.
Anderson, J., J. Beaton and K. Laxer. (2006). The Union Dimension: Mitigating Precarious Employment? In Leah Vosko (Ed.), Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.