‘Care Activism’ challenges the stereotype of a downtrodden migrant caregivers by showing that care workers have distinct ways of caring for themselves, for each other, and for the larger transnational imagined community of care workers and their families.
Ethel Tungohan illuminates how the goals and desires of migrant care worker activists go beyond political considerations like policy changes and overturning power structures.
Steering markets towards achieving societally relevant goals is the reason to have an industrial policy in the first place. While policymakers must monitor international changes and adapt accordingly, an effective green industrial policy must be more than a short-term response to American policy actions.
La politique industrielle devrait être conçue de manière à favoriser l’atteinte des objectifs sociétaux pertinents du Canada et non de manière défensive face aux événements qui se déroulent aux États-Unis.
While droughts and high temperatures grab headlines, truly implementing FPIC should not be seen as a roadblock to climate action, but instead be seen as an integral part to build trust and smooth relations to reduce transaction costs for a Just Transition.
Our goal should be decent wages for all workers. The way to get there is to push for higher productivity in low-wage sectors by raising wages while maintaining full employment.
The problem with the “end of jobs” narrative is that it disarms us by suggesting that massive technological forces out of our control are most to blame for our problems. That is not the case.
The biggest gap in our current labour market policy is the lack of opportunities for life-long learning.
Policies that make good quality child care more affordable for families can increase women’s employment opportunities and change the way that the market rewards women’s work.
