Featured Courses

LABR 1F90
Changing Nature of Work and of Labour Relations
Critical issues facing Canadian workers. Basis for conflict; key issues such as the impact of economic restructuring and technological change for working people; occupational health and safety; pay and employment equity; occupational segregration by gender; changing work patterns; and union action.

LABR 2P03
Labour Law and Labour Unions
Labour law and public policy relating to work and organized labour in provincial and federal jurisdictions; institutions in the labour market such as the Labour Relations Board; the structure and functioning of organized labour in Canada; labour law and union organization in other countries.
 

LABR 2P06
Collective Bargaining
Bargaining simulation played by students assuming the role of union and management negotiators. Topics may also include a survey of the nature, determinants, and impact of collective bargaining in Canada; the procedural and substantive aspects of collective bargaining; grievance arbitration; and other dispute settlement procedures.

LABR 2P09
Labour Relations in Professional Sports
Economic, political and social impacts of labour relations in professional sports. Topics may include free agency, collective bargaining, strikes and lockouts, and the role of players' associations.

LABR 2P34
Comparative Labour Movements
Comparative approach to contemporary union controversies and issues. Includes economic, political and sociological perspectives within an international comparative framework.

LABR 3P03
Global Labour Issues
Shaping of people's changing experience of work by global economic and political change. Topics may include globalization, de-industrialization, class conflict and the relationship between work and the environment.

LABR 3P06
Class and Culture
Labour issues as portrayed in cultural formats such as media, film, fiction and art. Topics may include the labour movement, its role in society, and its portrayal in popular culture.

LABR 3Q95
Sex Work and Sex Workers
Examination of sex work, various theoretical perspectives on sex work and their social policy implications for sex workers. Topics may include: prostitution, pornography, the political economy of sex work, and sex worker union organizing.
 

LABR 4P31
Women, Work and Unions
Theoretical and research developments concerning womens' paid and unpaid work. Topics may also include union activism, collective bargaining priorities and related government policies.
 

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