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Welcome to the Global Labour Research Centre | GLRC

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The Global Labour Research Centre, or GLRC, is a hub for research collaboration and action on work, labour, and livelihoods, particularly in relation to

(a) activist knowledge production,

(b) climate action and environmental justice

(c) colonialism and decolonization

(d) health crises and pandemics

(e) artificial intelligence and platform technologies

(f) law, rights, regulation, and governance.

We take a broad and open-ended approach, organized around deepening pan-university and wider community linkages and building infrastructure for transformative social action.

New! Book launch for Austerity and Resistance: Ontario Days of Action, 1995-1998 by Paul Kellogg

New! Workshop: From vision to action, mobilizing unions, workers and students for a radically-just transition

New! Higher Education Worker Campaign Meeting

October 2026
GLRC's Newsletter

September 2026
GLRC's Newsletter

August 2026
GLRC's Newsletter

July 2026
GLRC's Newsletter

June 2026
GLRC's Newsletter

May 2026
GLRC's Newsletter

April 2026
GLRC's Newsletter

March 2026
GLRC's Newsletter

New! Perspectives piece by Lynn Ng

New!  Histories of Solidarity: Migration, Deportation, & Organizing 

February 2026
GLRC's Newsletter

New! Migration as a Global Labour Supply System: Exploring the Role of
Collective Action Within the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program
, by Melanie Scott

New! Labour, Youth, and the Political Economy Behind Turkey's Recent Prostests, by Mehmet Erol

May 2025
GLRC's Newsletter (May)

April 2025
GLRC's Newsletter (April)

Spring 2025 - GLRC Writing Retreat
Applications are welcome until March 26th at 9am

March 2025
GLRC's Newsletter (March)

February 2025
GLRC's Newsletter (February)

January 2025
GLRC's Newsletter (January)

Abstract submissions welcome until December 8, 2024
2025 Graduate Student Symposium

Keynote speaker: Prof. Lars Osberg December 5, 2024
2024 Meet & Greet Luncheon

August 30, 2024
Message from Carlo Fanelli, Interim Director

June 1, 2023
New GLRC Director - Adrian Smith

May 25, 2023
Labour Research at Congress 2023

February 22, 2023
New Climate Action Series

February 22, 2023
Upcoming Winter Events

January 20, 2023
Undergraduate Research Award

January 17, 2022
New Faculty Profile - Ling Jiang