CAWLS members Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage have co-edited a 2nd edition of Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to re-establish the labour movement’s political capacity to exert [...]
“The Labour Relations of COVID Vaccine Mandates” The introduction of vaccine mandates in workplaces to address the COVID-19 pandemic raise a number of complex labour relations issues. Workers and their unions recognize the immediate [...]
CAWLS member Andy Hanson has written a new book on the history of ETFO. From the publisher’s website: “In this inspiring history of a union, labour historian Andy Hanson delves deep into the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario [...]
CAWLS will hold its 2022 annual meeting in conjunction with Congress from May 17-19, 2022. The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences has recently made a decision to host Congress entirely online. CAWLS members can expect a formal [...]
CAWLS will hold its 2022 annual meeting in conjunction with Congress again this year. The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences has recently made a decision to host Congress entirely online for 2022. If you would be like to take part [...]
Katherine Nastovski has been appointed as an assistant professor in the Work and Labour Studies Program in the Department of Social Science at York University. From the University’s press release: “Katherine Nastovski is an assistant [...]
This year’s CAWLS Book Prize is awarded to Leah Vosko and the Closing the Enforcement Gap Research Group for Closing the Enforcement Gap: Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs (University of Toronto Press). The [...]
The Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies condemns Ontario’s Ford government and Laurentian University’s decision to layoff 110 faculty and 41 staff and close 69 programs, including the Workplace and Labour Studies program. The crisis [...]
The Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies will be holding a General Meeting to be held via Zoom on Thursday, June 3, 1330-1530 Mountain Time (agenda and supporting documents to be sent later directly to members in good standing).
Dundurn Press has recently released a new book by Jason Russell, Canada, A Working History. The book describes the ways in which work has been performed in Canada from the pre-colonial period to the present day. Work is shaped by a wide array of [...]
Registration is now open for CAWLS 2021 at Congress. Please register at the following link: https://congress2021.ca/registration Download Preliminary Conference Schedule If you are a presenter, please make sure you are registered by April 1, [...]
Rising Up: The Fight for Living Wage Work in Canada Edited by Bryan Evans, Carlo Fanelli, and Tom McDowell UBC Press Canada has one of the highest rates of low-wage work among advanced industrial economies. In a labour market characterized by [...]
