Labour & Employment in Alberta

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

LBST 415 ( Sex work and sex workers ) spends a lot of time examining the ways in which different jurisdictions regulate sex work and sex w...

This post was previously published on the Canadian Law of Work Forum . Alberta has enacted several temporary changes to its Employment Stand...

Netflix has recently released a new documentary entitled American Factory . This film chronicles the opening of a branch plant of Fuyao ...

This week’s instalment of Labour & Pop Culture is "Spaceship” by Kayne West. This song explores the frustration and desperation of ...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is “Soup is Good Food” by the Dead Kennedys. This 1985 songs speaks to the disposabilit...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is “Out of Work” by Gary U.S. Bonds. Written by Bruce Springsteen, this song revived B...

In late June, the federal government announced it had signed new labour market training agreements with Alberta worth $1.7 billion over the...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is “Welcome to the Boomtown” by David & David. The song recounts the mid-80s exces...

Last week, Minister of Advanced Education Marlin Schmidt and University of Alberta president David Turpin had a nasty spat. The exchang...

This week’s installment of Labour and Pop Culture is “King of the Road” by Roger Miller. The song is about a hobo who rides the rails and ...

It is axiomatic for many right-wing commentators that the unemployed should just pack-up and move for a job. Often this suggestion underli...

As I’ve mentioned in the past, I’m involved with a large Canadian research project examining employment-related geographical mobility . My...

The Journal of Rural and Community Development just published an interesting article on the experiences of laid-off oilpatch workers who ...

Last week, CBC ran an article with the interesting headline, “ Why has the number of Alberta women in trades stagnatedfor a decade? ” This ...