September 2024
Speaker:
- Macarena Bonhomme, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, and GLRC Faculty Associate.
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September 25, 1:30pm - 3:00pm (EDT)
Kaneff Tower - Room 626 @ York University
Past, Present, and Future of Im/Migrant Labour in Canada
Panelists:
- Soma Chaterjee, Associate Professor, Social Work, York University, and GLRC Faculty Associate.
- Sultana R. Jahangir, South Asian Women and Immigrants’ Services.
- Mostafa Henaway, Immigrant Workers’ Centre.
- Christopher Sorio, Migrante Canada and GLRC Student Associate.
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September 26, 2:30pm - 4:30pm (EDT)
Kaneff Tower - Room 626 @ York University
October 2024
Building Worker Power in Latin America: Possibilities and Challenges
Panelists:
- Jeffery R. Webber, Professor, Department of Politics, York University, and GLRC Faculty Associate – The Labour of Extraction in Latin America: Outlines of a Theoretical Approach.
- Chris Little, PhD candidate, Department of Politics, York University, and GLRC Student Associate – 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 (will join via Zoom) – Unions and Workers in Mexico: between a New Labor Law and CUSMA.
- Viviana Patroni, Professor Emerita, Department of Social Science, York University, and GLRC Faculty Associate – Workers, worker organizing and the far right in Argentina.
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October 24, 2:30pm - 4:30pm (EDT)
Ross building - Room S701 @ York University
November 2024
Labour Unions, Climate Action, and Just Transition
Panelists:
- Seth Klein – Director of Climate Emergency Strategy. Author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency
- Rebecca Keetch – Autoworker and Activist with Green Jobs Oshawa.
- 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.
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November 21, 2:30pm - 4:30pm (EST)
December 2024
The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada
(Keynote lecture at the 2024 GLRC Meet & Greet Luncheon)
Speaker:
- Lars Osberg, McCulloch Professor of Economics, Dalhousie University, and author of the The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada (2024) and The Age of Increasing Inequality: The Astonishing Rise of Canada's 1% (2018), among other publications (joined via Zoom).
This event was be part of our 2024 Meet & Great Luncheon, which was held at York University. Professor Lars Osberg kicked off the event discussing (via Zoom) his new book The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada. We continued the conversation over lunch talking about the work of the GLRC.
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December 5, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
McLaughlin College - Room 140 @ York University
January 2025
Work, Platforms and Industrial Change in Italy
Panelists:
- Lidia Greco, Professor of Economics and Labour Sociology at the University of Bari Aldo Moro - Ecological transition and industrial change: some preliminary evidence from Italy
- Claudio Cozza, Associate Professor in Economic Policy at the University of Naples 'Parthenope', and Paolo Angelone, PhD student in Economics at the University of Naples 'Parthenope' - Industrial structure, productivity and wages in Italy over the last decades
- Marco Marrone, Assistant Professor at the University of Salento - Rights against the Machines! Platform capitalism, digital labor and the struggle of food delivery workers in Italy
- Valeria Cirillo, Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Bari Aldo Moro - The labour impact of digital platforms
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January 21, 10:00am -12:00pm (EST)
February 2025
What is Antiracism? And Why it Means Anticapitalism (John Eleen Lecture)
Speaker:
- Arun Kundnani, author of What is Antiracism? (Verso, 2023), The Muslims are Coming! (Verso, 2014) and The End of Tolerance (Pluto, 2007), and former editor of the journal Race & Class.
Commentary: Abigail Bakan. Professor, Social Justice Education department at OISE, University of Toronto.
February 20, 9:00am - 10.30am (EST)
Kaneff Tower 519 @ York University. Please, click here to register for the event.
March 2025
Speaker:
- Tanner Mirrlees, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director of Communication and Digital Media Studies at Ontario Tech, and GLRC Faculty Associate.
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March 6, 12:00pm -1:00pm (EST)
Ford More Years: What Comes Next? Post-Election Panel and Book Discussion
Panelists:
- Bryan Evans, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University, and GLRC Faculty Associate
- Carlo Fanelli, Associate Professor in Work and Labour Studies in the Department of Social Science and Interim Director of the Global Labour Research Centre at York University
- Maria Rio, Director of Development and Communications, The Stop, Executive Director Further Together
- Tom McDowell, Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University
- Venai Raniga, CUPE National Researcher
- John Clarke, Former Ontario Coalition Against Poverty organizer and Packer Visitor in Social Justice at York University
- Katherine Nastovski, Assistant Professor in Work and Labour Studies in the Department of Social Science at York University
- Ryan Keplin, PhD in Political Science, York University
- William Paul, Editor of School Magazine
- Doug Allan, Senior Researcher with CUPE National
- Chris Chandler, Vice-President, Ontario Secondary Schools Teachers Federation
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March 20, 2:00pm - 4:00pm (EST)