Food Justice and Sustainability: What are we doing at York? Join us for a Conversation Café * Tuesday, October 22nd, 17:00-18:30 Facilitated by John Simoulidis, Department of Social Science @ S166 Ross, York University * The Conversation Café process is based upon the principles of Open‐mindedness: Listen to & respect all points of view. Acceptance: […]
Carlo Fanelli, assistant professor and coordinator of the Work and Labour Studies program, penned an op-ed in the Huffington Post about why leaders who are serious about tackling low-wage work should embrace unions [YFile]
Criminology professor Natasha Tusikov's new book explores the interconnected ways in which the control of knowledge has become central to the exercise of political, economic, and social power. Building on the work of International Political Economy scholar Susan Strange, this multidisciplinary volume features experts from political science, anthropology, law, criminology, women’s and gender studies, and […]
When the residents of Jane and Finch learned that they were on a list of 31 communities scheduled to get a makeover as part of the contentious Toronto Strong Neighbourhoods Strategy 2020, they approached the City Institute at York University for some insight and guidance. “They invited us to give them our input,” says City Institute […]
‘This inequality is not accidental’: Canadian workers stuck in temporary jobs earn $6 per hour less than permanent workers More than one-in-eight Canadian employees worked a temporary job in 2018, earning on average $6 per hour less than those working permanent jobs. According to a report by Statistics Canada, published Tuesday, the percentage of Canadian workers […]
So much for ‘austerity-light’ in Ontario - The Ford government’s punishing first budget aligns with the global trend of authoritarian right-wing populism. It’s more like ‘permanent austerity.’ One eminent conservative scholar of public budgeting characterized annual budgets as a record of “victories, defeats, bargains and compromises.” Ontario’s 2019 Budget, the first of the new Conservative government of […]
Amidst a growing consensus that social media and online platforms must be subject to public regulation, the United Kingdom has stepped up to do just that. In doing so, it has made a lot of people very angry. Co-written by YorkU Social Science's Natasha Tusikov and Brock University's Blayne Haggart, read the full article on […]
Congratulations to SOSC Associate Professor Caroline Shenaz Hossein. She is an executive member on the board of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diaspora and the Centre for Feminist Research at York University. Read the notice on the International Association for Feminist Economics website. Read the Yfile article "Professor Caroline Shenaz Hossein […]
Congratulations to SOSC Associate Professor Darryl Reed - a leading Canadian authority on co-operatives, fair trade and sustainability - who also heads up two campus cooperatives. He is the program coordinator of the Department of Social Science's Business & Society program. Read more in YFile.
Hearty congratulations to SOSC Assistant Professor Nga Dao who is part of a major international study of river deltas in Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Ganges-Brahmaputra in Bangladesh. She is the sole Canadian researcher in this important study and is affiliated with the Department of Social Science's International Development Studies and Business & Society programs. Read more […]