Research

  • 10 Paid Sick Days Would Have Little Impact on Business Costs
  • Bargaining Tech: Shaping New Technologies to Improve Work, not Devalue It
  • Canadian Workers Need More Technology, Not Less
  • Child Care Expansion Would Boost Economic Recovery, Study Finds
  • Corporate Power and Post-Pandemic Inflation: A Deeper Dive
  • Fifteen Super-Profitable Industries are Driving Canadian Inflation
  • Five Contrarian Insights on the Future of Work
  • Ideas Into Motion: Progressive Economics and Social Change Movements
  • Income Security and Workers’ Power: Work, Wages, and Basic Income after COVID
  • Interrogating the Labour Shortage Hypothesis
  • No Correlation Between Inflation and Carbon Pricing
  • Orthodox Cure for Inflation Will Be Worse than the Disease
  • Policy Response to Pandemic: Go Big, Go Fast
  • Quantitative Easing: What It Is and What It Could Mean
  • Rebuilding Canada’s Economy Must Start with Rebuilding Work
  • Recovery from Pandemic Will Need an Ambitious Rebuilding Plan
  • Sector Bargaining and Broader Based Bargaining
  • Shocking Economic Facts Behind the BC Ports Dispute
  • Slowing Economy Should Give Bank of Canada Pause … But It Won’t
  • Solid Wage Gains for Construction Workers Needed to Cement Productivity Gains
  • Stanford for Agriculture Committee on Food Prices and Profits
  • Strengthening Workers’ Voice in the Future of Work
  • Ten Ways to Improve Work After COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Testimony to House of Commons Finance Committee Pre-Budget Hearings
  • The Broken Promises of Corporate Tax Cuts
  • The Failures of ‘Trickle-Down’ Economics in Alberta
  • The Future of Working from Home
  • The Surprising Resilience of Trade Unionism in Canada
  • Thinking Twice About Technology and the Future of Work
  • Transition Plan for Workers can Prevent Unemployment as Fossil Fuels are Phased Out
  • Union Coverage and Inequality in Canada
  • Wage Growth Picking Up, but Shows Important Differences Across Categories
  • WTO’s Overreach Explains its Growing Irrelevance