May 6, 2019: Race, Class and Collective Bargaining by Riot
Audio | Simon Black - film introduction
Audio | Simon Black - presentation
October 1, 2019: GLRC Year Opener: Cutting Edge Themes in Global Labour Studies
Audio | Celia Haig-Brown, Luann Good Gingrich, Carlo Fanelli, Luin Goldring, Adrian Smith and Pat Armstrong
October 23, 2019: Book launch: Change and Continuity – Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium
Audio | Luann Good Gingrich, Thomas Loebel, Mark Thomas, Leah Vosko, Carlo Fanelli, Steven Tufts, Tanner Mirrlees, Hugh Armstrong, Jacqueline Choiniere, Greg Albo, Stephanie Ross, Olena Lyubchenko
November 13, 2019: Two Years Later, at York U: Responses to the Equity Myth
Audio | Frances Henry, Carl James, Ena Dua, Shirin Shahrokni, Luann Good Gingrich
November 20, 2019: Film Screening and Discussion | Rethabile's Story: Decent Work Regulation in Africa
Audio | Kelly Pike, Nathanael Ojong, Luann Good Gingrich
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January 15, 2020: Redrafting Alliances: Labour and a New Transition in Argentina
Audio | Viviana Patroni, Anna Zalik, Luann Good Gingrich
January 22, 2020: Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education
Audio | Rebecca Tarlau, Leo Panitch, Rawan Abdelbaki
February 13, 2020: The War on the Poor: Poverty and Resistance in the Neoliberal Era
Audio | Dennis Pilon, John Clarke, Butterfly Gopaul, Suzanne Narain
February 28, 2020: The International Labour Organization: A Critical Examination of the Past 100 Years, and Imagination for the Next
Audio | Kelly Pike, Leah Vosko, Obiora Okafor, Marie Clarke Walker
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2018-19
June 20, 2018: Book Launch| Border Capitalism, Disrupted
Audio | Stephen Campbell
Audio | Peter Vandergeest
October 3, 2018: Book Launch| Migration Borders Freedom
Audio | Soma Chatterjee
Audio | Harald Bauder
Audio | Ethel Tungohan
October 29, 2018: Women's March and Intersectional Organizing: The importance of a critical race lens in industrial relations
Audio | Tamara Lee and Maite Tapia
November 14, 2018: Labour Power, Pipelines and Natural Gas: How Canada seeks to Profits from Mexico's Energy Reform
Audio | Introduction
Audio | Anna Zalik
September 26, 2017: Lessons of the Fight for $15 in the Trump Era
Audio | Jonathan Rosenblum
October 5, 2017: Insurgent Left, Resurgent Labour? Corbyn, Sanders, and the Labour Movement
Audio | Doug Henwood
November 14, 2017: New Directions in the Sociology of Work
Audio | Pat Armstrong
January 24, 2018: Precarity and the Nonprofit Sector: Views from Social Work
Audio | Lynn Eakin
June 15, 2016: Feminization of Labour and Immaterial Labour in Turkey
Audio | Sarioglu
August 18, 2016: Labour and the Political Economy of Peripheralisation: The Case of Ukraine and the European Union
Audio | Dr. Gregory Schwartz
September 8, 2016 | Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class
Audio | Immanuel Ness
Audio | Viviana Patroni
Audio | Kyla Sankey
Audio | Sam
October 17, 2016: Understanding the ‘Gig Economy’: The Political Economy of Platform Capitalism
Audio | Ursula Huws
October 30, 2016: Chinese Workers’ Uprising: Unions, Workers, and Resistance in China Today
Audio | Opening Remarks
Audio | Lu Zhang
Audio | Eli
Book Launch: November 12, 2016: Unfree Labour? Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada
Audio | Aziz Choudry
Audio | Adrian Smith
Audio | Kristina Torres
Audio | Sedef Arat-Koç
Audio | Deena Laad
Audio | Chris Ramsaroop
November 17, 2016: The Geography of Penal Labour: Some Thoughts on Penal Politics in Canada and the U.S.
Audio | Philip Goodman
Audio | Jordan House
December 13, 2016: The Rise and Fall of Cheap Nature: Work, Power, and Capital in Making &Transcending the Planetary Crisis
Audio | Jason W. Moore
Audio | Tania Hernandez Cervantes
Audio | Adrian Smith
March 14, 2017: Labour in the Cultural Industries
Audio | Tanner Mirrlees
Audio | Katherine Lapointe
Audio | Nicole Cohen
Audio | Derek Hrynyshyn
March 24, 2017: Precarious and Political: Retail Workers’ Struggle and Union Renewal in Ontario Supermarkets
Audio | Stephanie Ross
Audio | Angelo DiCaro
Audio | Tim Deelstra
Audio | Pam Frache
November 19, 2015 | Labour and the Media
Audio | Loreto
Audio | Bush
February 2, 2016: Occupiers and Dreamers: Insiders and Outsiders in a New Political Generation
Audio | Milkman
February 10, 2016: Pain, Prejudice and Working Postures: How a University-Union Agreement Allowed Researchers to Understand Musculoskeletal Problems Among Low-Paid Workers
Audio | Messing
October 30, 2014: What the Public Thinks about Unions and What the Labour Movement Should Do About It
Audio | Tom Juravich
November 19, 2014: Profiting from the Precarious: How Recruitment Practices Exploit Migrant Workers
Audio | Fay Faraday
January 21, 2015: Revolutionizing Retail: Workers, Political Action and Social Change
Audio | Coulter
February 12, 2015: Does the ILO’s Better Work lead to better work? Perspectives from garment factory workers in Lesotho
Audio | Pike
February 25, 2015: Controversies in Working- Class Consciousness: Ford Nation v. the Toronto Left
Audio | Joel Harden
Audio | Maureen O’Reilly
Audio | Rinaldo Walcott
June 24, 2015: At the Intersections: Sport, Social Inequality, and Labour in the Americas
Audio | Abdel- Shehid
Audio | Kalman- Lamb
Audio | Joseph
Audio | Langille
October 3, 2013: Young Workers, Unpaid Labour and the Intern Economy
Audio | Andrew Langille
Audio | Sean Smith
October 24, 2013: Whose Class Power Do Pension Funds Represent?
Audio | Kevin Skerrett
Audio | Robert Drummond
Audio | Benjamin Christensen
November 7, 2013: Crisis, Recovery, Precariousness: Argentine Workers’ Struggles in the Last Decade
Audio | Maurizio Atzeni
Traditional Unions Can’t Help Baristas. Can Non-Traditional Ones? A Legal Discussion
Audio | David Doorey [Note: A phone in a cupboard rang during David’s talk, and it took us some time to find it. Please excuse the interruption!]
Building High Participation Unions as Union Revitalization Strategy
Audio | Jane McAlevey
March 13, 2014: Labour Migration, ‘Unfree Labour’ and Resistance
Audio | Aziz Choudry
Audio | Adrian Smith
Audio | Fay Faraday
Audio | Sonia Singh
Closing the Enforcement Gap: Employment Standards Enforcement for People in Precarious Jobs
Audio | Leah Vosko
Audio | Eric Tucker and Mark Thomas
Audio | John Grundy
April 2, 2014: Navigating the Bureaucracy, Searching for Justice: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States
Audio | Shannon Gleeson