November/December 2019

Labour Issue

Our annual Labour Issue has stories about the risky business of sex work in the gig economy; airport workers organizing in Canada’s biggest workplace; how a Canadian garment company is fleecing women maquila workers in Honduras; the reinstatement of Canada’s prison farms; a planned economy for a just transition; Alberta’s public-sector unions rising to meet the challenge of a UCP government; and student journalists reviving the labour beat. Plus a book review, comic, and interview with writing contest judges.

Inside This Issue

The climate case for working less

by Anna Bianca Roach Nov 1, 2019 7 min read
Striking for the common good

by Saima Desai Oct 29, 2019 4 min read
The literal – and literary – futures we build

by Saima Desai Oct 29, 2019 10 min read
“At least hookers get wages”

by Bee Khaleeli Oct 29, 2019 14 min read
The cost of a T-shirt

by Samantha Ponting Oct 29, 2019 19 min read
Milking prison labour

by Erin Innes Oct 29, 2019 14 min read
Planes, trains, and workers’ gains

by Kate Jacobson Oct 29, 2019 11 min read
Taking sex workers seriously

by Lindsay Blewett Oct 29, 2019 6 min read
Bringing back the beat

by John Loeppky Oct 29, 2019 10 min read
A just transition requires a planned economy. But whose plan?

by David Gray-Donald and Emily Eaton Oct 10, 2019 12 min read