Audio Recordings
GLRC Speaker Series
(Click on the speaker’s name to listen to the audio recording)
- Labour Unions, Climate Action, and Just Transition, November 21, 2024.
- Seth Klein – Director of Climate Emergency Strategy. Author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency (Click here to watch the video recording)
- Rebecca Keetch – Autoworker and Activist with Green Jobs Oshawa. (Click here to watch the video recording )
- John Clarke, – Former Ontario Coalition Against Poverty organizer and Packer Visitor in Social Justice at York University. Author, with Sarah Glynn, of Climate Change is a Class Issue. (Click here to watch the video recording)
- Building Worker Power in Latin America: Possibilities and Challenges, October 24, 2024.
- Jeffery R. Webber, Professor, Department of Politics, York University – The Labour of Extraction in Latin America: Outlines of a Theoretical Approach
- Chris Little, PhD candidate, Department of Politics, York University – Transnational farmworker migration and class formation: notes from fieldwork between Guatemala and Ontario
- Cirila Quintero, Professor and Researcher, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Border Studies Institute), Matamoros Campus – Mexico – Unions and Workers in Mexico: between a New Labor Law and CUSMA (Click here to watch the video recording)
- Viviana Patroni, Professor Emerita, Department of Social Science, York University – Workers, worker organizing and the far right in Argentina
- Past, Present, and Future of Im/Migrant Labour in Canada. September 26, 2024.
- Soma Chaterjee, Associate Professor at Social Science, York University.
- Sultana R. Jahangir, South Asian Women and Immigrants’ Services.
- Mostafa Henaway, Immigrant Workers’ Centre.
- Christopher Sorio, Migrante Canada.
- Resistance and Food Delivery Platforms in the Global South: Latin American and Caribbean migrant workers using social media as a tool of resistance. September 25, 2024.
- Macarena Bonhomme, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, GLRC’s Faculty Associate and Visiting Scholar.
Podcasts
Laborem Ex Machina: A History of Operating Engineers and Heavy Machinery in Canada’s Construction Industry
The GLRC presents Laborem Ex Machina, a podcast series with a digital companion developed by our associate Dr. Gilberto Fernandes. This 8-episode series explores the fascinating technological, business, labour, military, cultural, gender, racial, children and youth, and environmental history of modern construction machines and their operating engineers in Canada in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its digital companion includes photos, artwork, videos, interactive maps, infographics, historical records, and other illustrations meant to be browsed through while listening.
This project was sponsored by the International Union of Operating Engineers’ Local 793 in partnership with the Global Labour Research Centre and Department of History at York University.