November/December 2012
This issue of Briarpatch is about work. Our cover story takes a critical look at the growth of unpaid internships, which are fast becoming an obligatory rung on today’s shaky career ladder. First-time contributor Andrew Stevens looks at the threat of “right-to-work” legislation in Saskatchewan, once the home of Canada’s most progressive labour laws, and return contributor Dave Bleakney pulls no punches in evaluating the current paralysis of the labour movement.
Articles in this issue
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Organizing the unorganized
Precarious workers fight back
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Trespassers on their own land?
Resource extraction is displacing traditional economies
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Interns unite!
(You have nothing to lose – literally)
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A crisis in migrant health
Migrants are bearing the brunt of health-care cuts
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Women take on the trades
Newfoundland leads the way in transforming gendered workplaces
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Conventions of labour
Movement or paralysis?
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Left behind
Precarious conditions for non-unionized autoworkers
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Constructed categories
Avoiding the race to the bottom
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‘Right-to-Work’ legislation provides no rights and no work
Labour law reform: consultation or imposition?
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Revitalizing the Canadian labour movement
Book review
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Tragic yet hopeful tales of inner struggle and solidarity
Book review
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Unions need to get to school, and soon
Students are not being taught the relevance of unions in their classes
