Labour & Employment in Alberta

A friend sent me this clip of John Oliver exploring union busting in the United States. Very applicable to Canada as well. -- Bob Barnetson

Netflix has recently begin carrying A.P Bio . The show follows a misanthropgic former Harvard philosophy professor (Jack Griffin) who is for...

I’m currently working with a subject matter expert to develop and launch a course about sex work and sex workers (LBST 415). I'd guess ...

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 “Rain on the Scarecrow” by John Cougar. I recently watched a really off-putting docu...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture looks at “Death to my Hometown” by Bruce Springsteen. This Celtic-infused (and very angr...

This week’s instalment of Labour & Pop Culture returns us to heady days of 1987, when hip-hop was beginning to penetrate mainstream Am...

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

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is “Private Dancer” by Tina Turner. The song is sung from the perspective of a worker i...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is “Shackled and Drawn” by Bruce Springsteen. This song has a bit of a gospel feel to it...

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 an audio-skit entitled “Darth Vader's Employee Evaluation. I’ve been incorporatin...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture looks at the songs of the Westray Mine explosion that killed 26 workers on May 9, 1992. ...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is “On the Turning Away” by Pink Floyd. (You can watch the Pink Floyd version here). I ...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture looks at “American Pie” by Don MacLean. This song is among the most famous of pop song...

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

There was an interesting study about the effectiveness of working from home out of Stanford. You can read a brief summary in this article...

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

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is “Back on the Chain Gang” by the Pretenders.  The title of the song, the images i...

This week’s installment of Labour & Pop Culture is “Proud to be a union man” by Neil Young. On the surface, the lyrics are a pretty st...