November/December 2017

Labour issue

Workers on the front lines of the opioid crisis are burning out. Challenges of earning a stable living as a freelancer while parenting. Letters between two labour movement vets. Brazilian activists rebuild a local economy after a mining disaster. Meet the workers who took on Canada’s casino giant. Is scientific labour really unencumbered? An excerpt from Robyn Maynard’s Policing Black Lives. Plus an interview with the writing contest judges, a book review and more!

Inside This Issue

The Precariat’s Parental Leave

by andrea bennett Oct 23, 2017 10 min read
Our Past Is Prologue

by Aina Kagis and Barb Byers Oct 23, 2017 10 min read
After Brazil’s Worst Mining Disaster

by Sasha Hanson Pastran and Pedro Bigolin Neto Oct 23, 2017 7 min read
Casino Workers Beat The House

by Stuart Neatby Oct 23, 2017 12 min read
The Second Crisis

by Mick Sweetman Oct 23, 2017 12 min read
Science After Harper

by Laura Stewart Oct 23, 2017 10 min read
Policing Black Lives: The Colour Line

by Robyn Maynard Oct 23, 2017 6 min read
Writing For These Times

by Tanya Andrusieczko Oct 23, 2017 7 min read
Unions in Court

by Brad Walchuk Oct 23, 2017 5 min read
Unions Can Be Of Our Making

by Serena Nadir Oct 23, 2017 4 min read
Moving Past Precarity

by Yutaka Dirks Oct 23, 2017 4 min read