“After eighteen hours they ask for another eighteen hours”: Normalizing labour flexibility in Canada’s extractive sector

School of Labour Studies Speaker Series presents:
Katie Mazer is a postdoctoral fellow with the Knowledge Network on Mining Encounters and Indigenous Sustainable Livelihoods (the MinErAL Network) and based in the School of Labour Studies at McMaster University. She holds a PhD in geography from the University of Toronto.

With a focus on labour migration from Atlantic Canada, Dr. Mazer’s doctoral research examined how welfare state policy and changing ideas about working life have normalized extreme labour relations in Canada’s extractive sector. Katie’s post-doctoral research contributes to a comparative study of Indigenous women’s participation in nickel mining employment in Nunavik and New Caledonia.