{"id":85849,"date":"2023-05-31T16:08:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T20:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=85849"},"modified":"2023-05-31T16:08:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T20:08:41","slug":"brock-prof-receives-national-honour-for-book-on-unionizing-prison-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/05\/brock-prof-receives-national-honour-for-book-on-unionizing-prison-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock prof receives national honour for book on unionizing prison labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor Jordan House in the Department of Labour Studies and co-author Asaf Rashid have received the Leo Panitch Book Prize from the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS).<\/p>\n<p>The award honours the best book in Canadian work and labour studies for the previous year. House and Rashid received the award for their book, <a href=\"https:\/\/fernwoodpublishing.ca\/book\/solidarity-beyond-bars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Solidarity Behind Bars: Unionizing Prison Labour<\/em><\/a>, at the CAWLS annual conference on Tuesday, May 30.<\/p>\n<p>House says he and Rashid have been \u201cthrilled\u201d with the positive response they received <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/12\/brock-expert-makes-case-for-unionizing-incarcerated-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">since the book was released<\/a> by Fernwood Publishing in November 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an honour to win this prize and receive this kind of recognition,\u201d he says. \u201cWe hope that the book gets people thinking a bit more about the role of imprisonment in Canadian society \u2014 and the idea that if employment and labour rights are truly <em>rights<\/em>, they must be enjoyed universally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor Larry Savage, Chair of the Department of Labour Studies, calls the award a \u201csignificant achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Department is thrilled to have Dr. House&#8217;s co-authored book recognized by the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies for its outstanding contribution to the field,&#8221; says Savage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor Jordan House in the Department of Labour Studies and co-author Asaf Rashid have received the Leo Panitch Book Prize from the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":85850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1,38],"tags":[12276,3125,110,522,8767,4358,3325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85861,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85849\/revisions\/85861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}