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Friday, January 30, 2015

Friday Tunes: The Way It Is

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This week’s installment of labour issues in popular culture features The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby. Hornsby identifies many of the themes ...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Poverty, sex and the working poor

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Over the holidays, I had a chance to read Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America . Author Linda Tirado is one of the working poor—holdi...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Friday Tunes: Bread and Roses

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This week’s installment of labour themes in popular culture is the song Bread and Roses . The song has it origins in the early part of the ...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Fall out from farm worker WCB exemption

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Last week, the Parkland Institute released a report examining why Alberta continues to exclude farm workers from mandatory workers’ compen...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Friday Tunes: Teacher, Teacher

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There are lots of songs about jobs. Today’s installment of labour themes in popular culture is one of my favourite songs from the 1980s: .3...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

A dirty business: Denying farm workers workers' compensation

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The Parkland Institute has just released a report that examines the exclusion of Alberta farm workers from mandatory workers’ compensation...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Teachers, social work and workload

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Teachers are often derided for their (allegedly) short working days and long vacations. These accusations have been repeatedly refuted. For ...