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The Global Labour Research Centre is pleased to announce the appointment of Adrian Smith, Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, as the new Director of the GLRC. He will replace professor Luann Good Gingrich, whose term as Director is concluding.

Professor Smith will begin his directorship on July 1, 2023 and he will lead the Centre’s re-chartering process in 2023-24. As Director, he hopes to continue the Centre’s growth as a locus for collaborative, inclusive, and community-engaged research fostered by previous Directors.

Smith is an accomplished scholar of political economy and labour law, as well as of Canadian state relations in the ‘global South’ and global capitalist development. Adrian has also worked on migrant justice issues since the early 2000s. He is a current co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law and Social Policy and has recently served as Academic Director of the Poverty Law Intensive Program at Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS), a fifty-year old program which forms the cornerstone of Osgoode’s social justice tradition. In addition to teaching and supervising law students at both 91��ɫ and Carleton University in the areas of collective bargaining, labour law, and the regulation of work in the global economy, Smith has for many years been an instructor with the Labour College of Canada, run under the auspices of the Canadian Labour Congress, which provides education opportunities for labour union members.

We are especially excited for Smith to join the GLRC at this opportune time, as 2023 is the 10-year anniversary of the Centre and we are celebrating with a new event series focusing on worker education and organizing. If you have ideas for events or other initiatives related to this focus and would like to be involved in our anniversary series, please contact us at glrc@yorku.ca.

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Congress 2023 will take place at 91��ɫ’s Keele and Glendon Campuses in Toronto from May 27 to June 2. Nearly 8,000 scholars, graduate students, and practitioners in the humanities and social sciences will come together and share their research.

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In a time of intensifying ecological devastation and social fracture, how do we forge space between despair and denial – space for collective hope, resolve and action? We see the entanglement of time in the climate crisis, as we are living through past decisions and exploits in the here and now that will extend far into the future. Immediate worries (for the economy and jobs, for example) will lose meaning over time. Our collective response must move beyond a binary framing of short-term vs long-term priorities, “blue” vs “green” interests, or economic vs environmental concerns. The past and future are now, demanding our recognition and effort.

We invite researchers who work at the intersection of climate action and labour to submit ideas for blog posts, research reports, or events; or be featured in a researcher profile.��To submit a proposal or for more information on this series, email us at��glrc@yorku.ca.

Explore the Climate Action, Work, and Labour series here.

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Labour and the Climate Crisis: Developing a Worker- and Equity-Centered Clean Energy Economy

Thursday, March 2, 2023
6:00 - 7:30 pm ET
Virtual

Canadian Labour Policy and Politics

Tuesday, March 7, 2023
3:00 - 4:30 pm ET
Hybrid

The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-Called Canada

Wednesday, March 8, 2023
12:00 - 1:30 pm ET
In-person

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The Global Labour Research Centre (GLRC) and the 91��ɫ Staff Association – Association du Personnel de L’Université 91��ɫ (YusApuY) are seeking research proposals related to work and labour from undergraduate students enrolled full-time (major or minor) in a Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) program at 91��ɫ.

The award, which is valued at $4,500, will be used to support the research project of one undergraduate student who will work independently over the course of five months, from April 2023 to August 2023. The award recipient will receive mentorship from the GLRC, while engaging in professional development activities with YusApuY, to develop their skills as a researcher.

The deadline for applications is February 27, 2023, at 11:59 pm ET. Please find the full call here [PDF].

We encourage 91��ɫU instructors to forward the call to their undergraduate classes. If you have questions, please contact us at glrc@yorku.ca.

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Read Dr. Jiang's profile here.

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You can also read the first part of this research, based on first-wave data collection (August-September 2020), here.

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Canadian International Labour Film Festival Screening

Thursday, November 10, 2022

Noon-2pm

Graduate Student Association Lounge

Rm. 430 First Student Centre

(Light snacks will be provided)

This year, we've arranged a 2-hour screening of the films that include��stories about Cree craftspeople in Chisasibi (the Hands of an Elder), nuclear waste in Spain (Spain Against the Atom), disability struggles in an Indonesian garment factory (Sugar on the Weaver's Chair), structures of oppression and the struggle to immigrate to Canada (the Unmaking of Medical Inadmissibility) and unionizing during the pandemic (Come See us Together). For more about these films check out:����

Know Your Rights: The��Employment Standards Act��and how it Impacts YOU

Thursday, November 17, 2022

Noon-2pm

Graduate Student Association Lounge

Rm. 430 First Student Centre

(Light snacks will be provided)

Calling all workers! The Global Labour Research Centre and the Work and Labour Studies Program have partnered to present an interactive workshop on the��Employment Standards Act. We will be covering the��Act��itself as well as other information relevant to workers such as a segment of the��Human Rights Code��as well as free legal resources in the GTA. Feel like your boss is being unfair? Come on out and learn what your rights are. Curious about labour law in Ontario in the wake of the CUPE strike and Ford invoking the notwithstanding clause? Get an intro here.

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Applicants are expected to be members of the full-time faculty at 91��ɫ, and to have a distinguished record of relevant scholarship and research interests, as well as a record of positive interaction with community partners concerned with work and labour. The Director is expected to administer the financial, organizational, academic, and collegial activities of the ORU; to develop external funding sources; and to maintain an active individual and collaborative research program. The ideal candidate will be aware of and responsive to the needs of community partners in the sector, the role of undergraduate and graduate students and student training in the GLRC, and academic networks both within the University and beyond.

Applications and nominations (including curriculum vitae and the names of three referees who may be contacted) should be sent via email to Ravi de Costa, Associate Dean Research and Graduate, LA&PS by December 1, 2022, 4:00 pm: adres@yorku.ca.

Apply or Nominate

For more information, see the full search ad here [PDF].

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