Canadian Labour Policy and Politics

Canadian Labour Policy and Politics is essential reading for students seeking to understand the politics of inequality in Canada’s labour market and the policy agenda needed for greater economic equality and a sustainable green recovery.

John Peters is a research fellow and associated professor at the University of Montreal’s Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work. He is the director of Blue Green Ideas, a research and consultancy firm focused on creating sustainable, equitable, and innovative green economies. Don Wells is professor emeritus, School of Labour Studies and Department of Political Science, at McMaster University. A former steelworker, autoworker, and labour union organizer, he has been active in the migrant workers' rights, peace, anti-poverty, and environmental movements. He was also a policy researcher in the national office of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Contributors: Donna Baines, Yale Belanger, John Calvert, Bryan Evans, Carlo Fanelli, Colleen Fuller, Rafael Gomez, Jennifer Harmer, Rebecca Hii, John Holmes, Philip Kelly, Adam King, Andy King, Stephanie Luce, Janet McLaughlin, Andie Noack, Stephanie Ross, Larry Savage, Jim Silver, Mark Thomas, Steve Tufts, Leah Vosko.

"It is a wonderful collective achievement of the Canadian labour studies community to make its knowledge accessible to students in one place."

Barry Eidlin, associate professor of sociology, McGill University:

Most Canadians know that life at work and at home has gotten harder, less stable, and less secure. Canadian Labour Policy and Politics offers a comprehensive, accessible guide not only to what has happened, but also why. The book offers an invaluable guide to anyone who wants not only to understand the forces shaping our lives today, but how to change them.

Gregor Murray, director of Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work, School of Industrial Relations, Université de Montréal:

A much needed and highly recommended addition to our understanding on employment, work, and labour in Canada. This excellent compendium of finely observed thematic studies offers insight and practical advice on making work better for a better society.

Judy Fudge, LIUNA Enrico Henry Mancinelli professor in Global Labour Issues, McMaster University:

Canadian Labour Policy and Politics is an excellent text for teaching undergraduate students about the laws, policies, and politics that structure the Canadian labour market and determine who wins and who loses at work.

Ian MacDonald, editor of Unions and the City: Negotiating Urban Change:

This fine-grained analysis of how social outcomes in Canada – whether it be poverty, exclusion, bad jobs, or inequality – result from political processes reflecting the decline of organized labour and the rise of big business as a political actor is simply masterful.