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2023 Graduate Student Symposium: Critical Conversations in Work and Labour

The Global Labour Research Centre (GLRC) at 91亚色 is pleased to welcome you to the 8th annual Graduate Student Symposium: Critical Conversations in Work and Labour. This virtual conference is designed to showcase the scholarship of new voices in labour studies across a diverse range of disciplines. It is our hope that the workshop will provide an interdisciplinary venue for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to share their research in a collaborative and supportive environment.

Program

The Symposium will be held virtually from October 12-13, 2023. Sessions on Thursday run concurrently. Zoom registration links are included in the program below. Attendees must register for each panel separately.

9:15 am - 10:45 am ET

Moderator: Cheuk Ming Tsang (City University of Hong Kong)
Respondent: Katherine Nastovski (91亚色)

Hate Symbols, Workplace Culture and Incidents of Anti-Black Racism in Toronto's Construction Industry
Chante Barnwell (91亚色)

Bent into Shape: Exploring How Legacies of Colonialism Shape(d) Labour in The Bahamas
D'Andra Knowles (McMaster University)

The Finnish Labour Market Hegemonies and Nuanced Racial Microaggressions: 鈥淟egal鈥 Discrimination in Recruitment Process in Finland
Frank Ojwang (University of Lapland)

The Impact of Gender and Race on Experiencing Alienation at Work as Barriers to Entering Higher Status Positions
Daniela Petrovski (91亚色)

Memes and Cryptocurrency: Racial Capitalism's GUI Metaverse
Nathi Zamisa (91亚色)

9:15 am - 10:45 am ET

Moderator: Anneka Bosse (91亚色)
Respondent: Paul Gray (Brock University)

Collective Bargaining and the Right to Strike in the Public Sector
Cvitan Brkic (91亚色)

Negotiating Statelessness and Homeland: Sri Lankan Repatriates, Rehabilitation and Kerala鈥檚 Rubber Estates
Parvati Dhananjayan (Geneva Graduate Institute)

The Culture of Ignorance in Neoliberalism: Examining the Blame Game and Individual Responsibility
Sahar Siavashi (91亚色)

Essential to What? Mapping Essential Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Adam Zvric (McMaster University)

11:00 am - 12:30 pm ET

Moderator: Cheuk Ming Tsang (City University of Hong Kong)
Respondent: Co艧ku 脟elik (Kadir Has University; 91亚色)

Contextualising Food Advocacy in the Community as Mother-Work
Shruti Raji Kalyanaraman (91亚色)

Queering the Workplace: Addressing Challenges in Employment for LGBT Individuals in India
Lovepreet Kaur (91亚色)

Conceptions and Dynamics of Au Pairing in the Literature
Catharina Lopes Scodro (Universit茅 de Strasbourg)

Exploring the Gendered Challenges for Women鈥檚 Work in the Egyptian Garment Industry
Ahmed Mohamed (91亚色)

Labour in Marx鈥檚 Writings: A Feminist Critique and Reconsideration
Talita Yalt谋r谋k (91亚色)

11:00 am - 12:30 pm ET

Moderator: V茅ronique Sioufi (Simon Fraser University)
Respondent: Klara 脰berg (Halmstad University)

Digital Circuits of Aspirational and Leisure Work: Craft in the Platform Economy
Benjamin Anderson (Simon Fraser University)

Masculinity and Gig Work: A Case Study of Rideshare Workers in Toronto
Maya Campo (91亚色)

A Necessary Strategy: The Need to Organize Platform Workers
Gerard Di Trolio (McMaster University)

Platform Work in South-East Europe: A Case Study of Croatia and Serbia
Jelena Starcevik (McMaster University)

12:45 pm - 2:15 pm ET

Moderator: Shruti Kalyanaraman (91亚色)
Respondent: Angele Alook (91亚色)

Decolonial Delinking, a New International Economic Order, & Climate Catastrophes
Martin Barakov (91亚色)

Labour Union Experimentation for a Just Energy Transition
Vincent Collins (91亚色)

Can鈥檛 Stand the Heat? Get Out of the Kitchen: The Impacts of Extreme Weather Events on Food Service Workers in British Columbia
Jen Kostuchuk (University of Victoria)

Building Power: Labour Unions and Climate Change in Ontario's Electrical Sector
Aidan McNally (McMaster University)

12:45 pm - 2:15 pm ET

Moderator: V茅ronique Sioufi (Simon Fraser University)
Respondent: Steven Tufts (91亚色)

Shaping the Future of Remote Work through Collective Bargaining
Oluwapelumi Ogunrinde (91亚色)

Can We Prevent Abusive Supervisor Behaviour at Remote Work by Reducing Technostress?
Daniela Petrovski (91亚色) & Ayesha Tabassum (91亚色)

Work in the Crypto Industry: Empowering or Precarious?
Alex Quesnel (91亚色)

9:15 am - 10:45 am ET

Moderator: Anneka Bosse (91亚色)
Respondent: Leah Vosko (91亚色)

Labour Intermediation in Export Geographies: Labour Contractors and Labour Discipline During Sweet Cherry Harvest in Western Turkey
Nil Alt (University of Toronto)

Lived Experiences of Paid Cashew Work and Unpaid Domestic Work: A Study Among Women Working in Cashew Processing in Kollam, Kerala
Abi Babu (Tata Institute of Social Sciences)

Labour Transformation Across Space and Time: A Case Study of Two Villages in South India
Yadu C R (RV University)

Agrarian Transformation and Labour Migration as Co-constitutive Factors in Uneven Development: A Labour Regimes Analysis Between Ontario and Guatemala
Chris Little (91亚色)

11:00 am - 12:30 pm ET

Moderator: Leah McGrath Reynolds (McMaster University)
Respondent: Mark Thomas (91亚色)

鈥淔ull Support鈥 of Strike Action: When Doctoral Students Become Labourers
Kusum Bhatta (McMaster University) & Elizabeth Grigg (McMaster University)

Challenging Workplace Dynamics: Black Women's Experiences in the Post-George Floyd Era
Dara Dillon (91亚色)

Precarious Work and Mental Health, with Special Consideration for How Post-Secondary Graduates are Coping with Precarity
Ryan Duffy (91亚色)

One Day I Will Destroy This Place
Shyam Patel (91亚色)

Critical Pedagogy: Mental Health Issues and Attrition Rates at PhD Level Education
Daniela Petrovski (91亚色)

12:45 pm - 2:15 pm ET

Moderator: Leah McGrath Reynolds (McMaster University)
搁别蝉辫辞苍诲别苍迟:听Nisha Toomey (91亚色)

From Caregiver to Personal Support Worker: Labour Market Segmentation Amongst Filipina Former Live-in Caregivers in the Greater Toronto Area
Nikki Mary Pagaling (91亚色)

Overworked and Under-Appreciated: Attending to Workers' Feelings to Improve Work and Care Experiences
Christine Streeter (Carleton University)

Symposium Organizing Committee

Anneka BossePhD Candidate, Communication and Culture91亚色
Shruti KalyanaramanPhD Candidate, Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies91亚色
Leah McGrath ReynoldsPhD Candidate, Labour StudiesMcMaster University
V茅ronique Sioufi PhD Candidate, Human GeographySimon Fraser University
Cheuk Ming TsangPhD Candidate, Public and International AffairsCity University of Hong Kong

Acknowledgements 

We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of 91亚色's Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, as well as our co-sponsors:

  • Department of Politics, 91亚色
  • Department of Sociology, 91亚色
  • Gender, Feminist and Women鈥檚 Studies Program, 91亚色
  • Public Policy, Administration & Law Program, 91亚色
  • School of Human Resources Management, 91亚色
  • School of Labour Studies, McMaster University
  • Social and Political Thought Program, 91亚色