Date/Time Date(s) - 28/10/20242:30 pm - 4:30 pm
As part of the School of Labour Studies Speaker Series 2024-25, This webinar features research supported by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives on the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on women and takes an intersectional approach to understanding how this impact has been experienced differently by various groups of women in the Canadian economy. The presenters take stock of the ongoing burdens that women are bearing and point to the urgent need to create a more just economy.
We will be joined by four guest speakers!
Katherine Scott is a Senior Researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and serves as the director for its gender equality and public policy work. She has worked in the community sector as a researcher, writer and advocate over the past 30 years, writing on a range of social and economic policy issues from poverty and inequality to income security reform to funding for nonprofits. Her most recent project examines the labour market experiences of marginalized female workers in the post-pandemic economy.
Catherine Bryan is an anthropologist and Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Dalhousie University. Her research emphasizes the long-arm of capitalist political economy vis-a-vis labour migration as well as the social reproductive ramifications and reverberations of immigration policy. Her work has focused on Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program in service and hospitality and in Nova Scotia’s fish processing sector; the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program; and health care access for refugee claimants.
Niall Harney is a Senior Researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba, where he holds the Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues named in honour of the late Brandon City Councillor and economist, Errol Black. Hamey’s research focuses on income inequality, fiscal policy, and political economy, among other topics.
Alice Mürage is a Research Fellow and PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. She led this case study research alongside SFU researchers Dr. Julia Smith, Stephanie Machado and Alexandra Selinger in partnership with UNITE HERE Local 40 and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.