Teaching

I teach a range of courses in the Labour Studies Program at the University of Manitoba.

Current courses:

On leave 2024 - 2025.

Upcoming courses:

LABR 2300: Workers, Employers, and the State (Fall 2025)

This course examines the social, economic, and political contexts of work and the relations, rules, and structures that shape the interactions between workers, employers, and the state. Topics include workers’ and management rights; the rights, obligations, and functions of unions; the legal contexts of labour/management relations; and initiatives for increasing equity.

LABR 4510: Labour Studies Field Placement Seminar (Fall 2025)

A seminar to be taken concurrently with LABR 4520 in which each student will relate theory and practice.

LABR 4520: Labour Studies Field Placement (Winter 2026)

An educationally directed field experience in which the student will undertake specific tasks and assignments in some aspects of labour relations. Field placement options include a labour union, professional association, employer, provincial department of labour, public archives.

Other courses taught:

LABR 1260: Working for a Living

An introduction to the study of working lives in the contemporary world and the global transformation that has made working for wages central to human existence.

LABR 1290: Introduction to the Canadian Labour Movement

An introduction to the development of the contemporary working-class movement in Canada and to workplace issues today.

LABR 2110: Labour and Popular Culture

An introduction to the study of labour and popular culture.

LABR 3230: Human Rights at Work

This course is an introduction to the basic human rights protections in Canadian workplaces that have developed as a result of collective bargaining, human rights legislation, The Charter of Rights and Freedoms and decisions of courts and tribunals. The course will also examine the concept of human rights on a broader, international and national level.