Labour & Employment in Alberta

I ran across a 1964 issue of the Justice League of America (JLA) comic book that appeared to be about unionizing superheroes. The cover show...

A few years back, a friend and I wrote an article about how unions were represented in contemporary sci-fi. It was an interesting experienc...

I recently had the… opportunity?... to watch a few episodes of CBC’s Frankie Drake Mysteries series. The series centres on an all-female de...

Alberta’s An Act to Make Alberta Open for Business (Bill 2) is presently before the Legislature. If passed, Bill 2 will allow employer to ...

Dead men tell no tales: Reporting and distorting occupational injuries Bob Barnetson, NASH 81 Conference, Calgary, January 4, 2019 Intr...

Next Wednesday (Hallowe’en!), the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is hosting a half-day symposium (entitled “ Frost and Desolati...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture revisits The Office to look at how employers handle drug use in the workplace. This skit...

A few years ago, a colleague and I published an article about the absence of unions in science fiction . A few weeks back, this topic came ...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture looks at the novel “In Dubious Battle” by George Steinbeck (1936). This books looks ...

Bring out your dead: Media influence on worker perceptions of injury Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies Conference 1 June 2...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture looks at worker-generated contributions to pop culture—specifically memes. Workers have ...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is an audio-skit entitled “Darth Vader's Employee Evaluation. I’ve been incorporatin...

Source: http://www.cpcml.ca/OPF2011/OPF01009.HTM A new study of media representations of migrant workers was recently published in the j...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is “Mining for Gold”, most famously performed by the Cowboy Junkies. The very haunting...