When Job-Hunting Becomes a Matter of Survival: COVID-19 and Changing Careers

Workers' Stories in the COVID-19 Era: Installment #6 August 6, 2021Written by Christina Love (Undergraduate Student, Indigenous Studies and French)Edited by Suzanne Spiteri (PhD Candidate, Sociology) In the sixth installment of the Workers' Stories in the COVID-19 Era dialogue series, we interviewed Karl, a former veterinary assistant and current customer service representative with a hot tub […]

“I Wish That They Had Let Me Go, Too”: A Line Cook’s Experiences Working Through COVID-19

Workers' Stories in the COVID-19 Era: Installment #5 August 6, 2021Written by Suzanne Spiteri (PhD Candidate, Sociology)Edited by Christina Love (Undergraduate Student, Indigenous Studies and French) In the fifth installment of the Workers' Stories in the COVID-19 Era dialogue series, we interviewed a line cook who has been working at a high-traffic GTA restaurant throughout the COVID-19 […]

Medical Research(ers), Burnout, and Doing What You Can in the Wake of COVID-19

Workers' Stories in the COVID-19 Era: Installment #4 July 30, 2021Written and edited by Christina Love (Undergraduate Student, Indigenous Studies and French) In the fourth installment of the Workers' Stories in the COVID-19 Era dialogue series, we interviewed a current medical researcher at a Canadian hospital to gain insight into how their work and life has […]

The Story So Far: COVID-19 and the Canadian Labour Market - Comparing the ‘Great Recession’ and the ‘Pandem-ecession’

In the fourth of their series of briefs looking at the labour market impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, statistician Andrew Mitchell and GLRC Director Luann Good Gingrich compare the recessions of 2008-09 and 2020-21 using data from the monthly Labour Force Survey (LFS) conducted by Statistics Canada.  The depth and severity of the recession caused by the […]

The Impacts of COVID-19 on the Academic Performance of Graduate Students

Abstract This research aimed to study the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the academic performance of graduate students during the first wave. Phone interviews were conducted with three York University graduate students. The findings highlight that the pandemic had unequal impacts on the academic performance of the interviewees depending on their family status. Furthermore, […]

Show Up and See What We Can Do: An Educational Assistant’s Experiences Teaching Through Covid-19

Workers' Stories in the COVID-19 Era: Installment #2 July 9, 2021By Suzanne Spiteri (PhD Candidate, Sociology) and Christina Love (Undergraduate Student, Indigenous Studies and French) In the second installment of the Workers' Stories in the COVID-19 Era dialogue series, we interviewed an Educational Assistant working with the Peel District School Board to begin to understand the […]

More Than "Just a Health-Care Aide": Immigrant Women Speak About the COVID-19 Crisis in Long-Term Care

By Naomi LightmanJuly 9, 2021 My recently published Parkland Institute report More than "Just a Health Care Aide": Immigrant women speak about the COVID19 crisis in long-term care summarizes the findings of interviews with 25 immigrant women health care aides (HCAs) working in long-term care (LTC) in Calgary that were conducted virtually between January 1, 2021 and […]

Workers' Stories in the COVID-19 Era

The COVID-19 pandemic has irrevocably changed the world of work. Workers’ hours are more erratic, their duties have increased, and the barrier between work-life and home-life is increasingly obscured. In addition, many “essential” workers find themselves at higher risk of getting exposed to COVID. Research, in fact, shows that essential workers were infected with COVID […]

"You Begin To Feel Less than Human": Student-Workers Discuss Work and "Blurring the Lines" During COVID-19

Workers' Stories in the COVID-19 Era: Installment #1 June 18, 2021By Christina Love (Undergraduate Student, Indigenous Studies and French), Tinu Koithara Mathew (PhD Candidate, Human Resources Management), and Suzanne Spiteri (PhD Candidate, Sociology) In the first installment of the Workers' Stories in the COVID-19 Era dialogue series, we interviewed York University student-workers to understand their […]

Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Faculty and Staff Productivity and Well-Being

Funder: SSHRC Exchange - KMb Grant, York University Principal Investigator: Kelly Pike (Assistant Professor, Human Resource Management) Project Description: This project will  inform the community about how the pandemic is impacting their peers, and what factors explain why individuals are experiencing different outcomes. The project touches not just on work-related outcomes but also the work-family […]