2016 Awards
CAWLS is proud to announce the winners of its 2016 Prizes for outstanding scholarship in the field of Work and Labour Studies in Canada. The awards were given out at a ceremony at CAWLS’ third annual conference in June 2016 at the University of Calgary. The prize committee was chaired by Kendra Coulter (Brock University), and consisted of Susan Braedley (Carleton University), Bryan Evans (Ryerson University), and Suzanne Mills (McMaster University). Congratulations to all the winners!
CAWLS Book Prize
Craig Heron (York University), Lunch-Bucket Lives: Remaking the Workers’ City (Between the Lines 2015)
New Voices in Labour Studies Best Graduate Paper Prize
Lacey Croft (York University), “Pathologizing Job Loss: ‘Critical Incident Stress Debriefing’ Discourse as Case Study”
CAWLS Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship
Lauren Serianni (Brock University), “Women-Friendly Unions: Today and Tomorrow”
2015 Awards
CAWLS is proud to announce the winners of its 2015 Prizes for outstanding scholarship in the field of Work and Labour Studies in Canada. The awards were given out at a ceremony at CAWLS’ second annual conference in June 2015 at the University of Ottawa. The prize committee was made up of CAWLS members Donna Baines (McMaster University), Marlea Clarke (University of Victoria), Thomas Collombat (Université du Québec en Outaouais), and Charles Smith (St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan). Congratulations to all the winners!
2015 CAWLS Book Prize Winner Kendra Coulter with CAWLS President Stephanie Ross
CAWLS Book Prize
Kendra Coulter (Brock University), Revolutionizing Retail: Workers, Political Action, and Social Change (Palgrave Macmillan 2014)
Prize winners Lisa Pasolli and Julia Smith with CAWLS Executive Donna Baines
New Voices in Labour Studies Best Graduate Paper Prize (English)
Lisa Pasolli and Julia Smith (Trent University), “Workers, Social Services, and the State: Child-Care Worker Organizing in 1970s Vancouver, British Columbia”
Thomas Collombat (CAWLS Executive) and Mathieu Hocquelet
New Voices in Labour Studies Best Graduate Paper Prize (French)
Mathieu Hocquelet, “Ethnographie du travail d’organisation des employé-e-s de Walmart aux États-Unis: avantages et risques d’une campagne ‘tous azimuts’”
CAWLS Prize Committee Chair Donna Baines with Nick Ruhloff-Queruga
CAWLS Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship
Nick Ruhloff-Queruga (Brock University), “A Tale of Two Cities: Niagara Falls, Las Vegas, and the Politics of Union Organizing in the Casino Gaming Sector”
2014 Awards
At its inaugural conference in May 2014, CAWLS awarded three prizes recognizing outstanding scholarship in the field of Work and Labour Studies in Canada. Congratulations to the winners!
CAWLS Book Prize
Wayne Lewchuk, Marlea Clarke and Alice de Wolff, Working Without Commitments: The Health Effects of Precarious Work (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011)
New Voices in Labour Studies Best Paper Prize
Alison Braley-Rattai, “Why the Supreme Court of Canada should Recognize a Right to Strike”
CAWLS Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship
Craig Mazerolle, “Taking (Judicial) Notice of Workplace Precarity: Single Mothers and the Right to Childcare Accommodation” (published in the November 2014 issue of the Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues)
CAWLS President Stephanie Ross with CAWLS’ 2014 Prize Winners Alison Braley-Rattai (left) and Wayne Lewchuk (right)
Craig Mazerolle, winner of the CAWLS 2014 Undergraduate Paper Prize