The GLRC is thrilled to be co-sponsoring Common Struggles, Common Solidarities, a one-hour dialogue with Filipina care worker activists in Toronto, Winnipeg, and Daly City, California on Saturday, May 29, 2021. This event is organized in part by GLRC Executive Dr. Ethel Tungohan. Register here Migrante Manitoba also released a video on May Day capturing […]
Since March 2020, the GLRC has amassed a digital database of more than 900 resources (newspaper articles, academic journal articles, blogs, op-eds, white papers, and policy briefs) documenting the challenges that different groups of workers have been experiencing around the world. In addition to a large repository of documents relating to Canada, the database seeks to account for […]
We are pleased to announce the 2021 Graduate Student Symposium: Critical Conversations in Work and Labour, to take place on select days in October 2021. The call for proposals is now open. Please note the Symposium is open internationally. Submissions are limited to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-career independent researchers. The deadline for submissions is Saturday, July 31, 2021 by […]
On January 20, 2021, we held our first annual Meet & Greet. Thank you to everyone who registered! We hope to continue this as an annual event. For those who were unable to attend, or those who attended and are interested in staying connected with the centre, check out our slideshow presentation [PDF] outlining the […]
Dear GLRC Community, As we collectively reflect on the sudden passing of Professor Leo Panitch, even those of us who knew him well can’t help but be struck by the outpouring of public testimonies attesting to the depth and reach of his work as an activist intellectual. Among his contributions, for many years Leo helped […]
GLRC Executive Committee Member Fay Faraday was featured in YFile on January 14, 2021 for her recent landmark public policy paper on building gender equality into the pandemic recovery: "Resetting Normal: Women, Decent Work and Canada's Fractured Care Economy" (2020). Read the full YFile story here. Read Professor Faraday's policy paper here [PDF].
In November 2020, researchers from the Alberta Workers Association for Research and Education (AWARE), Migrante-Alberta, and York University released a report titled "Precarious Workers and Precarious Housing: Investigating Stories of Migrant Workers’ Housing Struggles in Edmonton, Alberta" that investigates the current and ongoing challenges the migrant worker community in Edmonton face around homelessness and housing […]
In the third of their series of briefs looking at the labour market impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, GLRC Director Luann Good Gingrich and Andrew Mitchell examine the impacts on youth ages 15-24 using data from the monthly Labour Force Survey (LFS) conducted by Statistics Canada. Read the full brief here [PDF]. See the first brief of […]
GLRC Director Luann Good Gingrich, GLRC Associate Naomi Lightman, and Social Planning Toronto Senior Researcher Beth Wilson have a new report on rental housing inequities tied to race and immigrant status in Toronto. Spaces and Places of Exclusion: Mapping Rental Housing Disparities for Toronto’s Racialized and Immigrant Communities is a first-of-its-kind study, mapping spatial exclusion by racialized and immigrant […]
GLRC Executive Member Dr. Leah F. Vosko is featured in the Fall 2020 issue of York University Magazine for her advocacy work with migrant workers. Dr. Vosko is a member of the Migrant Worker Health Expert Working Group, which was formed in April 2020 to address the needs of migrant agricultural workers (MAWs) in Canada […]