Labour & Employment in Alberta

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

Alberta Labour released its annual report for 2020/21 . As usual, there are a number of interesting tidbits to be found in amongst the spin ...

John Oliver recently did an interesting piece on working conditions in meat-packing plants. These working conditions are broadly similar to ...

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

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

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

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

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

A week ago, a coalition of groups released a report addressing shortcomings in Canada’s existing Caregiver Program. This program brings for...

From October 10 to 20, Edmonton’s Walterdale Theatre is presenting “ The Triangle Factory Fire Project .” This play recreates the events an...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is “One More Dollar” by Gillian Welch. This is a folksie song about a travelling agric...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is “Night Shift” by Bob Marley and the Wailers. The song explores Marley’s experiences...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is the 2017 novel “The Irregular” by H.B. Lyle. The setting is London in 1909 and the ...

Over time, Canada has seen a large increase in the number of temporary migrant workers. In 1996, there were ~53,000 temporary workers in C...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop culture is “Navigator” by the Pogues. This song is about the workers who built the English rai...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture features “The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll” written by Bob Dylan. The story recoun...

This week’s installment in Labour & Pop Culture features “Electric Avenue” by Eddy Grant. The song refers to rioting in April of 1981 ...

The Alberta Workers’ Health Centre recently concluded a multi-year project aimed at improving the health and safety of new Alberta workers...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is “Talk a Walk” by Passion Pit. Electropop isn’t really my thing but this song is cat...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is Maria Dunn’s “Speed Up”, a folk song about work in Edmonton’s (now defunct) GWG clo...