Professor Thomas Klassen heads to Korea to research and mobilize new labour force policies

Thomas Klassen, a professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of Public Policy & Administration in the Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies, has been invited to South Korea to be a visiting researcher. Right: Thomas Klassen The Korea Labor Institute has asked Klassen to conduct research on new policies for Korea’s labour force […]

Law Professor David Doorey builds app to extend workplace blog's digital reach

York law Professor David Doorey of the School of Human Resource Management has taken the idea of blogging one step further. He’s developed his own app for his blog, now available for Apple devices as a free download through iTunes. Doorey says the main reason he started Doorey's Workplace Law Blog was to better connect with […]

Work in a Warming World project to host discussion panel on green jobs January 20

‘Green jobs’ have been increasingly touted as the solution to job loss and environmental crisis. Will Canada transition to a cleaner economy that reduces greenhouse gas emissions and employs a new generation of workers? Are green jobs the only link between environmental policy and employment policy? Defining green jobs raises further questions. What is a […]

Professors Darke and Greenglass on how post-recession anxiety is getting better of investors

The recognition that emotions such as fear can drive investment choices is a relatively new one. Classical economics long viewed people as hyper-rational. But in the 1960s, a new field called behavioural economics emerged to show that’s far from the case, reported Macleans.ca Dec. 1: Julie Tyios was already a savvy investor by her mid-20s, […]

Centre for Research on Work & Society's Just Labour Journal examines challenges facing workers

The latest issue of the online journal Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society is now available. The journal, which was launched in 2002, is an initiative of York’s Centre for Research on Work & Society (CRWS). Just Labour – which seeks to explore issues related to the volatile transformation of the Canadian workplace – […]

Professor Dennis Raphael: Getting sick is more about living conditions than lifestyle

What makes us sick? Is it genetics or lifestyle? Is it too many burgers, too much alcohol, not enough exercise? Not according to York Professor Dennis Raphael, who, like the fourth-century BC philosopher Plato, attributes poor health to living conditions. Things like income level and people’s access to food, housing, education, and health and social services, are […]

Limiting growth will help environment, save jobs, says York prof

Peter Victor, a professor in York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies, was featured in the Hamilton Mountain News April 22. His recent book, Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster, argues economic growth hurts the environment and has not eliminated poverty or provided full employment: “We need a new measure of success,” said Victor, […]

New book examines precarious margins of today's labour markets

York political science Professor Leah Vosko, Canada Research Chair in Feminist Political Economy, explores the precarious margins of contemporary labour markets in her new book, Managing the Margins: Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment, being launched tomorrow. The book looks at how over the last few decades there has been much discussion […]

Prof receives $1 million from SSHRC for climate change project

Carla Lipsig-Mummé, professor of work and labour studies in York's Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and research fellow in York’s Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability, has received $1 million over six years from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Right: Carla Lipsig-Mummé The award will fund an international project to study […]