
Concurrent session
Labour: Market Fixes or Market Subsidies
WHEN
November 18, 2017 at 10:30am - 11:45am
WHERE
Engineering Teaching & Learning Complex (ETLC), University of Alberta
with Jason Foster and Andrew Jackson
Neoliberal economics dominates labour policy in Canada, resulting in inequity and precarity for workers. This session will critically examine the current structure of the Canadian workforce and contrast popular progressive options like basic income and minimum wages with systemic solutions.