CAWLS Book Prize
This award honours the best book in Canadian work and labour studies.
2018 – Enda Brophy, (Simon Fraser University), Language Put to Work: The Making of the Global Call Centre Workforce (Palgrave Macmillan)
2017 – Bryan D. Palmer and Gaétan Héroux, Toronto’s Poor. A Rebellious History (Between the Lines)
2016 – Craig Heron (York University), Lunch-Bucket Lives: Remaking the Workers’ City (Between the Lines)
2015 – Kendra Coulter (Brock University), Revolutionizing Retail: Workers, Political Action, and Social Change (Palgrave Macmillan)
2014 – Wayne Lewchuk, Marlea Clarke and Alice de Wolff, Working Without Commitments: The Health Effects of Precarious Work (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
CAWLS Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship
This prize recognizes outstanding scholarship completed by an undergraduate student on work and social change.
2018 – Jerik Brown (Simon Fraser University), “Affect at Work”
2017 – Seamus Grayer (Simon Fraser University), “The Young and the Cultural: Worker Co-operatives as an Alternative Form of Labour Organizing for Young Cultural Workers”
– Amélie Poirier (Université du Québec à Montréal), “Femmes migrantes, travail domestique et organisation politique”
2016 – Lauren Serianni (Brock University), “Women-Friendly Unions: Today and Tomorrow”
2015 – 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 – Craig Mazerolle, “Taking (Judicial) Notice of Workplace Precarity: Single Mothers and the Right to Childcare Accommodation”
New Voices in Labour Studies Best Paper Prize
This award is given to the author of the best paper by a new scholar (graduate student, post-doctoral fellow, or faculty/researcher in the first five years of their appointment) presented at the CAWLS annual conference.
2018 – Not awarded (transition to new criteria for the Prize)
2017 – Émilie Aunis (Université Laval), “Solidarités et mobilisations des chauffeurs Uber : Entraves et conditions propices à l’action collective de travailleurs indépendants en France et au Québec”
2016 – Lacey Croft (York University), “Pathologizing Job Loss: ‘Critical Incident Stress Debriefing’ Discourse as Case Study”
2015 – Lisa Pasolli and Julia Smith (Trent University), “Workers, Social Services, and the State: Child-Care Worker Organizing in 1970s Vancouver, British Columbia”
– Mathieu Hocquelet, “Ethnographie du travail d’organisation des employé-e-s de Walmart aux États-Unis: avantages et risques d’une campagne ‘tous azimuts’”
2014 – Alison Braley-Rattai, “Why the Supreme Court of Canada should Recognize a Right to Strike”