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Friday, October 30, 2015

Friday Tunes: Between the Wars

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This week’s installment of labour themes in popular culture is Billy Bragg’s “Between the Wars”, a song he wrote during the UK coal miner’...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Gendered energy extraction in Fort McMurray

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Three weeks ago, AU Press published a new book entitled Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada . You can download the entire b...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

International Conference on Regulation, Change and the Work Environment

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From November 30 to December 2, the University of Ottawa will be playing host to the International Conference on Regulation, Change and the ...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Friday Tunes: Shift Work

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This week’s installment of labour theme in popular culture is Kenny Chesney’s (rather uninspiring) “Shift Work”. Shift work—work that requ...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Regulatory capture: Trading worker's health for profit

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Two weeks ago, a new book entitled Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada was published by Athabasca University Press. You ca...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Professor. Associate Professor. What's the difference?

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I had some good news from Athabasca University yesterday (a rare event indeed!) regarding my final promotion. This clip somehow seems funnie...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Deaths of farm children are mostly preventable

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The death of three young farm kids in Alberta last week is (rightly) being reported as a tragedy. The reports are bit unclear but it appea...
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