Labor

2022 Graduate Student Symposium: Critical Conversations in Work and Labour

Join the Global Labour Research Centre at York University for the 7th annual Graduate Student Symposium, a virtual forum designed to showcase the scholarship of new voices in labour studies across a diverse range of disciplines. When: Wednesday, October 12 – Thursday, October 13, 2022 Sessions on Wednesday run concurrently Where: Virtual – Zoom Registration: […]

Spaces of Labour in Moments of Urban Populism

Funder: SSHRC Insight Grant Principal Investigator: Steven Tufts (Associate Professor, Geography) Co-Investigators:Ian MacDonald (Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal)Mark P. Thomas (Associate Professor, Sociology, York University) Project Description: In the years following the financial crisis of 2008, labour movements have been placed largely on the defensive as employers found opportunity to press for concessionary demands and […]