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Showing posts with label LBST325. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LBST325. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Climate change and safety: treeplanters and wildfire smoke

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A few weeks back, the Tyee ran a story on the effect of increasing levels of wildfire smoke on tree planter OHS . This story is interesting ...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Podcast: Vriend 25 Years On

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The Well Endowed Podcast is publishing a series on the 25th Anniversary of the Vriend decision . While sexual orientation had been deemed a...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

The Porter on CBC

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CBC has an interesting new series on called The Porter. It is set in the 1920s (in Montreal, mostly) and follows a group of Black railway po...
Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Trucker shortages about jobs quality, not worker shortage

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Time magazine recently ran a short analysis of the cause of America’s shortage of truck drivers. Presently, supply chain shortages are comp...
Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Early Chinese worker militancy in BC

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The autumn issue of Our Times magazine contained a very interesting examination of early Chinese worker militancy in BC , written by Winnie ...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Labour & Pop Culture: Always Brave, Sometimes Kind

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I received a recent (2020) novel for Christmas entitled Always Brave, Sometimes Kind that was written by Katie Bickell. The novel is essent...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Labour & Pop Culture: Tillsonburg

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Over the holidays, I heard a Stompin’ Tom Connors song called Tillsonburg. Tillsonburg is a town located just southeast of London, Ontario a...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Research: Trajectories of union renewal: Migrant workers and the revitalization of union solidarity in Saskatchewan

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A recent issue of Labour/Le Travail contained a study examining the intersection of migrant workers and union renewal in Saskatchewan . This...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Research: Interjurisdictional employment in Canada, 2002-2016

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Researchers at Memorial University has issued a new report analyzing tax data on inter-jurisdictional employment in Canada between 2002 and...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

New course: LBST 325: Labour mobility and migrant workers

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  Athabasca University has opened a new online course. LBST 325: Labour Mobility and Migrant Workers examines various forms of labour mobil...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020

COVID and mobile work

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A few years ago, I was a bit player in a pan-Canadian study of mobile work. One of the researchers in the study was Sara Dorow (University o...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Census data on commuting

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Statistics Canada has provided some analysis around commuting in several of Canada’s larger urban centres—comparing commuting in the 1996 a...
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Research: Return to work among injured mobile workers

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The American Journal of Industrial Medicine recently published an interesting article about the intersection between mobile work and retu...
Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Superstore: Unions and Undocumented Workers

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In late May, the TV show Superstore wrapped up another season. I’ve written about Superstore before because they had a very interesting unio...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

On the Move: Stories of Mobile Work

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One of the long-term research projects I’ve been involved with is the On the Move partnership , which examines economic-related geographic m...