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Work in the West: Beyond the State Response

2021 Virtual Series

With support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Drs. Shelagh Campbell and Andrew Stevens at the University of Regina, are facilitating a webinar and podcast series that focuses on the state of work and employment in Western Canada. This is an opportunity for students and established scholars to present their research on-line through a variety of formats, such as panel discussions, webinars, and podcasts. Events will be posted on-line at www2.uregina.ca/workinthewest/ and Rankandfile.ca.

We are also looking for labour journalism podcasts that cover any number of themes and issues that define the state of work and employment in the west. This might include:

Virtual Series Themes

Expressions of interests are encouraged on the following potential topics, or other topics areas that relate to the general theme:

Work and employment during the COVID pandemic
The labour of community organizing
Sustainable development and “just transition”
Indigenous-union solidarity
An examination of automation in the resource extraction economy
Corporate mapping and metropoles in the resource sector
The Fight for $15 and living wage campaigns
Indigenous rights and the law
Immigration policy, rights, and the global division of migrant labour across Canada
Pipeline resistance
The impact of court decisions on strikes and collective bargaining, and the framework of industrial relations
Occupational health and safety
Labour history in the resource sector
Case studies in community unionism
Case studies in Indigenous economic development
Developments in care work
Law of (the) Land
Gender and agriculture
Attempts at regulating “platform” capitalism at the provincial and municipal levels
Sustainability and energy production
Training, skills development, and regional labour markets
Economics, indigenous rights, and municipal regulation of land use
Financialization of agriculture