Minimum wage, gender wage parity, the fight for $15 and fairness, and other movements are part of a continuing effort to enable millions of workers to earn better, fairer wages, benefits, safety, and job security. However, as Professor Carlo Fanelli writes in his Labour Day op-ed on Huffington Post Canada, the fight for a living […]
Dennis Pilon and Greg Albo, Associate Professors, in the Department of Politics, contributed to an editorial in the Toronto Star with an analysis of the Ontario provincial government's move to halve the number of Toronto city councillors using Bill 5, the Better Local Government Act. The authors point out that a move in the 1990s to […]
York University’s Disaster and Emergency Management Professor Eric Kennedy spoke with Anna Brooks from Popular Science for an article entitled “How parched states like California fight wildfires.” “It’s easy to think of fighting fires by getting out a hose and spraying water on it, but that’s not how it works,” said Kennedy. Predicting when […]
Bryn Greer-Wootten, York University professor emeritus and associate director of the Institute for Social Research, has been recognized for his work with the Institute of Geonics by the Czech Academy of Sciences. Greer-Wootten was presented with the prestigious Karel Engliš Honorary Medal for Merit in the Social and Economic Sciences on Aug. 28 by […]
York University Professors Gabrielle Slowey and Joan Judge were awarded Massey College appointments for the 2018-19 academic year. “We are very pleased that Professor Judge and Professor Slowey were awarded these honours,” said Robert Haché, vice-president research and innovation. “The York-Massey Visiting Scholarships represent an important opportunity for York researchers and academics to expand […]
York University politics Professor Emerita Liisa North released a new volume on the continuity of elite power in Latin America, titled Dominant Elites in Latin America. From Neo-Liberalism to the ‘Pink Tide’ (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018). Liisa North Six authors contributed unique case studies from Chile, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, El Salvador and Guatemala, which were edited […]
York University social science Professor Kamala Kempadoo is the 2018 recipient of the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) Lifetime Achievement Award. Kamala Kempadoo A Caribbean scholar for nearly three decades, Kempadoo possesses a stellar international reputation and specializes in researching, writing and teaching on the issues of gender, sex and sexuality, and sex work in […]
A team of researchers at York University has developed a web-based archive on Syrian refugee settlement. It is the first web archive at York that is publicly accessible and permanently protected within the library system. Nergis Canefe The development of Syrian Refugee Settlement in Canada was led by Professor Nergis Canefe with support from the […]
Carlo Fanelli, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University, is the co-editor of a new book of essays with Bryan Evans, a professor at Ryerson University. The book, released in July, is titled The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018). It […]
At first glance, a pile of dirty laundry might not look like a source of fresh ideas for an academic with a deep-rooted interest in social justice. But when Pat Armstrong started rummaging through sacks of sweaters, socks and silken nothings awaiting washing in nursing homes scattered across six western world countries, the Distinguished […]