We are happy to announce three new webinars this Fall as part of our virtual series, Contested Reproduction of States and Societies in Financialized Capitalism: Comparative Views from Turkey, in partnership with Dr. Pınar Bedirhanoğlu (Associate Professor, Middle East Technical University, Turkey) and Dr. Ali Rıza Güngen (Visiting Professor, York University, Canada). These webinars follow […]
As part of our new COVID-19 Disruption, Denudation, and Dawning series, we held a recorded panel discussion with co-authors of The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities, Frances Henry, Enakshi Dua, and Carl E. James. Opening remarks were provided by Sheila Cote-Meek, York University Vice-President, Equity, People and Culture. Shirin Shahrokni acted as Discussant. A trailer of the panel […]
GLRC Director Luann Good Gingrich and Andrew Mitchell have prepared a research brief entitled The Story So Far: COVID-19, the Canadian Labour Market, and Immigrants exploring the differential impacts in the Canadian labour market among Canadian-born citizens, long-term immigrants, and more recent immigrants. The brief uses data from the monthly Labour Force Survey conducted by Statistics Canada. Read […]
GLRC Director, Luann Good Gingrich, has written a statement on anti-Black racism entitled Anti-Black Racism and the Slow, Structured Violence of Social Exclusion. Read the full statement here.
We are excited to announce the Global Labour Research Centre (GLRC) has collaborated with the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS) for the New Voices in Work & Labour Studies Workshop Series, a weekly online workshop series that will take place on selected days from October 19 to November 13, 2020. Building on […]
Dr. Gilberto Fernandes is a Visiting Professor in the Department of History and the Global Labour Research Centre where he leads the project Laborem Ex Machina: The History of Operating Engineers and Heavy Machinery in Canada's Construction Industry. His research on the history of Portuguese diaspora has been published in multiple journals and in his […]
Former Ontario Coalition Against Poverty organizer John Clarke has been appointed as the next Packer Visitor in Social Justice in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional studies for a two-year term (terms 2019-20 to 2020-21).Clarke has a lifetime of achievement in organizing the unemployed. Born and raised in a working-class background in the […]
Check out two important op-eds written by Professors Steven Tufts and Carlo Fanelli on work and labour issues: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2019/09/11/pension-plans-should-not-invest-in-companies-that-harm-working-people.htmlhttps://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/canada-election-minimum-wage_ca_5d80fbb0e4b00d69059f6611?fbg
York University Professor Leah F. Vosko, of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, is being recognized for excellence in research by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). She is the recipient of the SSHRC’s prestigious Impact Award (Insight Category). The award was announced on Sept. 4.“York is delighted that […]
Dr. Kelly Pike, Interim Director of the GLRC, is a member of a team of researchers working on the project 'Decent Work Regulation in Africa'. A short documentary on their work in Lesotho - Rethabile’s Story - has now gone live. Directed and produced by Dreamscope TV, the documentary is narrated by Rethabile Ratsiu, a […]