Labour Studies Prof. Kendra Coulter and student Nick Ruhloff-Queiruga recently won awards for their work from the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies. 
Labour Studies Prof. Kendra Coulter and student Nick Ruhloff-Queiruga recently won awards for their work from the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies.
Labour Studies Prof. Kendra Coulter was honoured recently with the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS) annual Book Prize at Congress 2015 in Ottawa.
She received the award in recognition of her book Revolutionizing Retail: Workers, Political Action, and Social Change.
“It’s an honour to win this award and be recognized nationally,” said Coulter. “I’m delighted that more people will be encouraged to think about workers in sectors like retail, and about how our work-lives relate to the sort of society we want to build.”
She was also quick to point out that she wasn’t the only member of the Brock community to win a CAWLS award.
“With one of our undergraduate students, Nick Ruhloff-Queiruga, winning the undergraduate award, Brock Labour Studies really shone,” she said.
Ruhloff-Queruga won the award for best undergraduate student paper for “A Tale of Two Cities: Niagara Falls, Las Vegas, and the Politics of Union Organizing in the Casino Gaming Sector.”
The significance of the book prize was further emphasized by awards committee member Donna Baines.
“We were very impressed with Dr. Coulter’s book,” she said. “It combined the best of rigorous academic analysis and research with social activism and community change. It was well deserved and we applaud her excellent work.”
After spending nearly four years working on her award-winning book, Coulter isn’t taking any time to rest on her laurels. She’s already anticipating the release of her next book Animals, Work, and the Promise of Interspecies Solidarity later this year.
