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GLRC Speaker Series

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Ford More Years: What Comes Next? Post-Election Panel and Book Discussion, March 20, 2025 (online event)
- Full Panel Discussion (video recording available ) with:
  - Bryan Evans, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University, and GLRC Faculty Associate
  - Carlo Fanelli, Associate Professor in Work and Labour Studies in the Department of Social Science and Interim Director of the Global Labour Research Centre at 91��ɫ
  - Maria Rio, Director of Development and Communications, The Stop, Executive Director Further Together
  - Tom McDowell, Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University
  - Venai Raniga, CUPE National Researcher
  - John Clarke, Former Ontario Coalition Against Poverty organizer and Packer Visitor in Social Justice at 91��ɫ
  - Katherine Nastovski, Assistant Professor in Work and Labour Studies in the Department of Social Science at 91��ɫ
  - Ryan Keplin, PhD in Political Science, 91��ɫ
  - Doug Allan, Senior Researcher with CUPE National
  - William Paul, Editor of School Magazine
  - Chris Chandler, Vice-President, Ontario Secondary Schools Teachers Federation
Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries A Critical Introduction, March 6, 2025 (online event)
- Tanner Mirrlees, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director of Communication and Digital Media Studies at Ontario Tech, and GLRC Faculty Associate. ()
Work, Platforms and Industrial Change in Italy, January 21, 2025 (online event).
- Lidia Greco, Professor of Economics and Labour Sociology at the University of Bari Aldo Moro - Ecological transition and industrial change: some preliminary evidence from Italy. ()
- Claudio Cozza, Associate Professor in Economic Policy at the University of Naples 'Parthenope', and Paolo Angelone, PhD student in Economics at the University of Naples 'Parthenope' - Industrial structure, productivity and wages in Italy over the last decades. ()
- Marco Marrone, Assistant Professor at the University of Salento - Rights against the Machines! Platform capitalism, digital labor and the struggle of food delivery workers in Italy. ()
- Valeria Cirillo, Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Bari Aldo Moro - The labour impact of digital platforms. ()
The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada, December 5, 2024 (online keynote lecture).
- Lars Osberg, McCulloch Professor of Economics, Dalhousie University, and author of the The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada (2024) and The Age of Increasing Inequality: The Astonishing Rise of Canada's 1% (2018), among other publications. ()
Labour Unions, Climate Action, and Just Transition, November 21, 2024.
- Seth Klein – Director of Climate Emergency Strategy. Author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency. ()
- Rebecca Keetch – Autoworker and Activist with Green Jobs Oshawa. ()
- John Clarke, – Former Ontario Coalition Against Poverty organizer and Packer Visitor in Social Justice at 91��ɫ. Author, with Sarah Glynn, of Climate Change is a Class Issue. ()

Building Worker Power in Latin America: Possibilities and Challenges, October 24, 2024.
- Jeffery R. Webber, Professor, Department of Politics, 91��ɫ – The Labour of Extraction in Latin America: Outlines of a Theoretical Approach
- Chris Little, PhD candidate, Department of Politics, 91��ɫ – Transnational farmworker migration and class formation: notes from fieldwork between Guatemala and Ontario
- Cirila Quintero, Professor and Researcher, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Border Studies Institute), Matamoros Campus – Mexico – Unions and Workers in Mexico: between a New Labor Law and CUSMA ()
- Viviana Patroni, Professor Emerita, Department of Social Science, 91��ɫ – Workers, worker organizing and the far right in Argentina
Past, Present, and Future of Im/Migrant Labour in Canada. September 26, 2024.
- Soma Chaterjee, Associate Professor at Social Science, 91��ɫ.
- Sultana R. Jahangir, South Asian Women and Immigrants’ Services.
- Mostafa Henaway, Immigrant Workers’ Centre.
- Christopher Sorio, Migrante Canada.
Resistance and Food Delivery Platforms in the Global South: Latin American and Caribbean migrant workers using social media as a tool of resistance. September 25, 2024.
- Macarena Bonhomme, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, GLRC's Faculty Associate and Visiting Scholar.

Laborem Ex Machina: A History of Operating Engineers and Heavy Machinery in Canada's Construction Industry

The GLRC presents , a podcast series with a digital companion developed by our associate Dr. Gilberto Fernandes. This 8-episode series explores the fascinating technological, business, labour, military, cultural, gender, racial, children and youth, and environmental history of modern construction machines and their operating engineers in Canada in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its digital companion includes photos, artwork, videos, interactive maps, infographics, historical records, and other illustrations meant to be browsed through while listening.

This project was sponsored by the International Union of Operating Engineers’ Local 793 in partnership with the Global Labour Research Centre and Department of History at 91��ɫ.