Labour & Employment in Alberta

I ran across this interesting article last year about the origins of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) in the United States (which has merged ...

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...

An interesting presentation by Olav Rokne about the the presence and absence of unions in science fiction.

Recently, a new novella arrived on my desk. It tells the story of a strike by young female mill workers (“ mill girls ”) set in Lowell, Mass...

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...

A friend passed me this 1977 song about organizing a union on the USS Enterprise (ST:TOS). The absence of unions in Star Trek (excepting one...

I recently finished two sci-fi westerns by Alex Wells in which a union made an appearance. Hunger Makes the Wolf (2017) and Blood Binds t...

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

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 ...

It's summer and, honestly, I got nothing left this week so enjoy some Star Wars-related labour stuff. Especially the mission statement...

A few months back, Mark McCutchen and I published an article examining the presence and (mostly) absence of unions in science fiction . A ...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture examines the novel 1632 by Eric Flint. Last fall, Mark McCutcheon and I published an ...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is the Battlestar Galactica episode “Dirty Hands”. I recently coauthored a paper on th...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture focuses on the Star Trek: Deep Space 9 episode “The Bar Association”. I recently coautho...