Since June 2021, the GLRC has been conducting an interview series titled "Workers' Stories in the COVID-19 Era," aimed at building a collection of worker narratives during the pandemic. For May Day 2022, we present our research assistants' reflections on the interview series. What have these interviews taught them about workers’ experiences? Has the pandemic […]
We are excited to add a new series to our COVID-19 and the World of Work hub. Workers' Stories in the COVID-19 Era is a dialogue series aimed at building a collection of worker narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project is led by GLRC Executive Ethel Tungohan (Assistant Professor & Canada Research Chair, Politics), with a team of […]
The Story So Far is a series of research briefs by statistician Andrew Mitchell and GLRC Director Luann Good Gingrich that uses data from the monthly Labour Force Survey (LFS) conducted by Statistics Canada to examine labour market impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Brief #5 | The Story So Far: COVID-19, the Canadian Labour Market, and Intersectionality August 27, […]
Workers' Stories in the COVID-19 Era: Installment #14 December 7, 2021Written by Christina Love (Undergraduate Student, Indigenous Studies and French)Edited by Tinu K. Mathew (PhD Student, School of Human Resource Management) In the fourteenth installment of our series Workers’ Stories in the COVID-19 Era, we interviewed Alexandros, a musician in the Toronto area. A self-described […]
Workers' Stories in the COVID-19 Era: Installment #12 October 5, 2021Written by Christina Love (Undergraduate Student, Indigenous Studies & French)Edited by Tinu K. Mathew (PhD Student, School of Human Resource Management) In the twelfth installment of the Workers' Stories in the COVID-19 Era dialogue series, we interviewed Regan, a seasonal factory worker in the GTA. […]
Executive Summary The care work sector has been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 and migrant care workers have largely been left out of public discourse. As labour standards and healthcare are provincial jurisdictions, the experiences of migrant care workers will depend on which part of the country they work in. To better understand how these experiences […]
September 2, 2021By Christina Love (Undergraduate Student, Indigenous Studies and French) Christina Love is a contributor to the GLRC’s interview series entitled Workers’ Stories in the COVID-19 Era. Her post below features findings and quotes from those interviews. TW: Mention of suicide in the worker quotes (Karl). History In 1894, over 50 labour organizations from […]
Workers' Stories in the COVID-19 Era: Installment #10 September 2, 2021Written by Christina Love (Undergraduate Student, Indigenous Studies and French)Edited by Suzanne Spiteri (PhD Student, Sociology) In the tenth installment of the Workers' Stories in the COVID-19 Era dialogue series, we interviewed a senior nurse who has worked at a GTA hospital since the 1980s. […]
In the fifth of their series of briefs looking at the labour market impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, statistician Andrew Mitchell and GLRC Director Luann Good Gingrich examine the intersecting power dynamics defined by gender, nationality/race/ethnicity, and age that result in compounding vulnerabilities and economic exclusion, using data from the monthly Labour Force Survey (LFS) conducted by Statistics […]
Workers' Stories in the COVID-19 Era: Installment #7 August 13, 2021Written by Tinu Koithara Mathew (PhD Student, School of Human Resource Management)Edited by Christina Love (Undergraduate Student, Indigenous Studies and French) In the seventh installment of the Workers' Stories in the COVID-19 Era dialogue series, we interviewed Ali, an educational sector worker; Edward, a public […]