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On sabbatical: July 1, 2025 \u2013 June 30, 2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

My interdisciplinary, socio-legal research is conceptually and methodologically informed by feminist political economy, political ecology, and critical legal studies. Broadly, I am interested in law\u2019s distributional effects and in law\u2019s role in constituting socio-ecological relations and ways of making a living. My work also attends to the interaction of legal discourses and governance regimes operating at multiple spatial and temporal scales, such as in the context of historic and ongoing colonial relations, processes of regional integration, and under conditions of change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have written on the gendered (and other relational) dimensions of work and labour markets and the regulatory challenges and possibilities inherent in their historical constitution and ongoing transformations. My work engages a critique of labour law\u2019s normative underpinnings and boundaries, especially the exclusion of unpaid work of care and social reproduction from its scope, and the consequences of these regulatory choices. It also scrutinizes policies designed to redress labour market inequalities and evaluates their potential to center care relations and redistribute opportunities, rather than reify economic contributions as a basis for citizenship and belonging. Among others, I have published on working time, work family reconciliation, gender equality and inclusion policies, as well as neoliberalism, post-socialist transition, and crisis governance and labour market reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A parallel strand of my research revolves around the interface of work and environmental regulation. My work in this strand explores both the nexus between environment and more traditional forms of work organization and regulation, as well as labour law\u2019s socio-ecological constitution through categories of labour and land, and with attention to the dynamics of exploitation and expropriation. The special issues of the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal<\/em> on Labour Law and Sustainability and the just published 2023 IJCLL&IL<\/em> Special Issue on the Labour-Environment Nexus, feature some of my work in this latter strand. I have also led a UK case study in an EU-funded (Horizon 2020) project Agreenment<\/em>, on the role of collective bargaining, unions, and workers in agitating for more sustainable work systems, and most recently, I wrote a speculative judgment and commentary rethinking dangerous work from a feminist-relational-ecological perspective for a forthcoming edited collection on Earth Law (Hart\/Bloomsbury).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alongside these two key strands, I am also interested in alternative forms of solidarity building, work organization, and governance as essential elements of resistance to the erosion of working condition, labour market segmentation, and the overall unsustainability of the dominant models of work organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Projects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

My SSHRC Insight Grant (2022) project Law and the Labour\/Environment Nexus: Interactions, Implications, Regulatory Alternatives<\/em>, considers the implications of the interface between labour and environment\/land-related regulatory regimes for the im\/possibilities of social reproduction of different lives, livelihoods, and ways of being in the world. Carried out in collaboration with colleagues at the Federal University of Ouro Preto, this empirical project involves ethnographic, social cartographic, and participatory field research in mining-affected communities in Brazil and Canada. It combines feminist political ecology with theories of racial capitalism and decolonial thinking to document the problems inherent in the contemporary regulatory regimes, but also to glean, from grounded knowledges and praxes, what it might mean to sustainably regulate diverse livelihoods in the face of ongoing colonial, capitalist relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another project I am involved in is a collaboration with the David Suzuki Foundation examining the concept of \u2018just transition\u2019 in relation to its equitable and just application to formal and informal labour and developing economies. We are currently writing a research-based policy paper for the UN Climate Conference of Parties (COP) 28, in November 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching and Supervision<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I teach courses in Employment Law, Employment Dispute Resolution, and a graduate seminar Regulating Labour in the 21st<\/sup> Century: Bodies, Spaces, Flows, Utopias. All my teaching is informed by the conceptual and methodological lenses I adopt in my research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am interested in supervising legal and socio-legal research on regulation of work and labour markets; gender, law and work\/livelihoods; relationship between labour and environmental sustainability; feminist and other critical theories of law; feminist political economy and ecology of work; settler capitalism and land-based, decolonial struggles; commons-based and cooperative work organization; critical policy studies; post-socialist transitions; and multi-level governance regimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Prior to joining Carleton\u2019s Department of Law and Legal Studies, I was Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick School of Law (UK) and Director of Warwick\u2019s Connecting Research on Employment and Work (CREW) Network (2017-2019). I also held Research Fellowships at Warwick Law School (2013-2016) and Lund University Faculty of Law in Sweden (2015), and I was selected as the 2019-20 France-ILO Research Chair at Nantes Institute of Advanced Study (declined). I won the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) Best Thesis prize for my doctoral work (2013) and was a member of the British Academy Raising Star Engagement Award (BARSEA)-funded project entitled Future Directions in EU Labour Law<\/a> (2015). I have a PhD in Law and Society from University of Victoria Faculty of Law (2012), an LL.B. from the University of Windsor, and a BA in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of Toronto. I am a co-founding member of the Moving Labour Collective, a collaboration between an international group of labour law researchers invested in working with activists and the mentoring and development of junior colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Books<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

<\/u>Zbyszewska, A. 2016. Gendering European Working Time Regimes: The Working Time Directive and the Case of Poland <\/em>(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Reviewed: Plomien, A. (2018) \u201cBook review: Ania Zbyszewska: Gendering European working time regimes.\u201d<\/em> Feminist Legal Studies<\/em>, 26(2): 229-232].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blackham, A., Kullmann, M. and Zbyszewska, A. (eds.) 2019. Theorizing Labour Law in a Changing World: Towards an Inclusive Labour Law<\/em>. Hart\/Bloomsbury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journal Articles <\/u><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Zbyszewska, A., Maximo, F. 2023. \u201cRethinking the Labour-Environment Nexus: Beyond Coloniality, Towards New Epistemologies for Labour Law.\u201d International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations<\/em> 39 (3-4) (in press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zbyszewska, A., Sekalala, S. 2023. \u201cTowards A Feminist Geo-Legal Ethic Of Caring Within Medical Supply Chains: Lessons From Careless Supply During The COVID-19 Pandemic.<\/em>\u201dFeminist Legal Studies<\/em>, 1-26 10.1007\/s10691-023-09520-1 (50%) (accepted Nov 2022; published 21 February).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zbyszewska, A. 2021. \u201cWorking with and around Voluntarism: Union Engagement with Environmental Sustainability in the UK\u201d E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies, <\/em>10(1): 66-81.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zbyszewska, A. 2018. \u201cRegulating Work with People and \u2018Nature\u2019 in Mind: Feminist Reflections\u201d. Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal<\/em> 40(1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benedi-Lahuerta, S., Zbyszewska, A., 2018. \u201cEU Equality Law after a Decade of Austerity: On the Social Pillar and its Transformative Potential.\u201d International Journal of Discrimination and the Law<\/em> 18(2-3), 162-192.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kresal, B., Zbyszewska, A., 2017. \u201cThrough Work-Life-Family Reconciliation to Gender Equality? Slovenia and the United Kingdom\u2019s Legal Frameworks Compared.\u201d Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations<\/em> (on Work Life Balance) vol 98, 155-182.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zbyszewska, A. 2016. \u201cActive Aging through Employment: A Critical Feminist Perspective on Polish Policy.\u201d International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations<\/em> 32(4): 449-472.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. 2016. \u201cReshaping the European Working-time Regime: Towards a Sustainable Model.\u201d European Labour Law Journal<\/em> 7(3): 331-347.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. 2013. \u201cThe European Working Time Directive: Keeping the Long Hours with Gendered Consequences.\u201d Women\u2019s Studies Int. Forum<\/em>, 39(1): 30-41.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. 2012. \u201cRegulating Working Time in the Times of Crisis: Flexibility, Gender and the Case of Long Hours in Poland.\u201d International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations <\/em>28(4): 421-441.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guest Editorials (Journals)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Arabadjieva, K., Budgda, A., Chacartegui, C., Tomasetti, P., Zbyszewska, A., 2023, \u201cThe Labour Environment Nexus \u2013 Exploring New Frontiers in Labour Law (Introduction)\u201d in International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relation<\/em> 39(3-4)(in press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zbyszewska, A. 2018. \u201cLabour Law for a Warming World? Exploring the Intersections of Work Regulation and Environmental Sustainability \u2013 Guest Editorial\u201d in Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal<\/em> 40(1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zbyszewska, A., Kullmann M., Blackham, A. 2018. \u201cScrutinizing the Standardized Worker: Critical and International Perspectives \u2013 Guest Editorial\u201d in International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations<\/em> 34(4): 345-350.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zbyszewska, A., Benedi Lahuerta, S. 2018. \u201cTaking Stock of Twenty Years of EU Equality Law and Policymaking and Looking Ahead\u2013 Guest Editorial\u201d in International Journal of Discrimination and the Law<\/em> 18(2-3): 55-59.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapters in Edited Collections<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Zbyszewska, A. 2023. \u201cEnvironmental Racism at Work \u2013 Reflections from a Settler Colony of Canada.\u201d In Direito Material e Processual do Trabalho: A Consumacao da Vida no Capitalismo<\/em>. Maria C. Maximo Teodoro et al. Belo Horizonte, pp. 17-26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kullmann, M., Zbyszewska, A., Blackham, A. 2019. \u201cIntroduction\u201d in Theorizing Labour Law in a Changing World: Towards an Inclusive Labour Law<\/em>. Hart\/Bloomsbury (August).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zbyszewska, A., Routh, S. 2019. \u201c\u2018Challenging Labour Law\u2019s Productivist Focus: Insights from Research on Informal and Unpaid Work\u2019 in Theorizing Labour Law in a Changing World: Towards Inclusive Labour Law<\/em>, A. Blackham, M. Kullmann, A. Zbyszewska (eds.), Hart\/Bloomsbury (August).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zbyszewska, A. 2017. \u201cGendering Poland\u2019s Crisis Response: A Europeanization Perspective\u201d in Gender, Politics and the Crisis in Europe<\/em>, ed. Johanna Kantola and Emanuela Lombardo, Palgrave, Gender and Politics Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—-. 2017. \u201cWomen in Research and Academic Labour Markets: Revisiting the Issue Ten Years On.\u201d in Festskrift for Ann-Numhauser Henning<\/em>. Juristforlaget, Lund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Numhauser-Henning, A., Jul\u00e9n Votinius, J., Zbyszewska, A. 2017. \u201cEqual Treatment and Age-discrimination \u2013 Inside and Outside Working Life\u201d in Elder Law: Evolving European Perspectives<\/em>, Edward Elgar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blackham, A., Kullmann, M., Petterson, H., Zbyszewska, A., 2017 \u201cThe Rationales of Government Action on Aging and the Extension of Working Lives\u201d in Elder Law: Evolving European Perspectives<\/em>, Edward Elgar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fudge, J., Zbyszewska, A., 2015. \u201cAn Intersectional Approach to Age Discrimination in EU Law: Bridging Dignity and Distribution.\u201d In Age Discrimination and Labour Law<\/em>, A. Numhauser-Henning & M. Ronnmar, eds., 141-163. Kluwer Law International.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zbyszewska, A. 2014. \u201cVisions of the Future: Imagining and Anticipating Tomorrow\u2019s Working Hours from the North American Perspective.\u201d In Factor of Time in the New Economy. Where are we Heading?<\/em>\u201d H. Strzeminska, ed., 58-75. Institute of Work and Social Matters: Warsaw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22775,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Ania","cu_people_last_name":"Zbyszewska","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[22],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-22749","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"ania.zbyszewska@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"613-520-2600 x. 2621","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/22749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/22749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33120,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/22749\/revisions\/33120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=22749"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=22749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}