{"id":61584,"date":"2019-11-20T15:06:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T20:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=61584"},"modified":"2025-10-17T10:42:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:42:22","slug":"work-and-labour-diploma","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/work-and-labour-diploma\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Offering Graduate Work and Labour Diploma in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton Offering Graduate Work and Labour Diploma in 2020\n <\/h1>\n \n <\/header>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/path>\n <\/path>\n <\/svg>\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

The nature of work has changed profoundly \u2013 and that change is not yet over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Factory jobs have been automated or offshored to jurisdictions with lower labour costs. Permanent, full-time employment is harder to find, even for highly trained professionals. Jobs have become more precarious \u2013 if they can be called jobs at all. The gig economy has given all of us the opportunity to deliver take-out chicken at 3 a.m. All the while, emerging technologies like artificial intelligence are evolving rapidly — and threatening to eliminate entire categories of jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cNone of these issues can be understood as independent variables,\u201d says Justin Paulson, an associate professor of sociology and anthropology who teaches at Carleton\u2019s Institute of Political Economy<\/a> and is one of the organizers of its new Graduate Diploma in Work and Labour<\/a> program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll of them require an historical, political economic lens to fully understand what is going on.  It is more important than ever for those interested in employment issues and workers\u2019 rights to be looking ahead – to be thinking domestically and globally, and to be prepared to propose policies and practices to safeguard rights and employment opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Examining Work and Labour Through a Historical, Political Economic Lens<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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The Graduate Diploma in Work and Labour will provide that lens. With the first courses to be held in fall 2020, the program will offer graduate students an opportunity to obtain a credential in work and labour concurrent to a master\u2019s or PhD studies. The program has an additional experiential learning component to give them practical experience through a work placement with a labour or work-related organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The diploma will also be offered as a stand-alone program for external students, providing an academic grounding in political economy to people who are already employed by unions and other work-related organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Diploma students will study two core courses on work and labour delivered by the institute. They\u2019ll also take an additional approved elective from another Carleton department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This course work will examine the changing nature of work and labour, and will reflect how the study of these subjects has evolved.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cThe work of anti-racist activists and social reproduction theorists has changed who is the subject of work and labour in the scholarly literature — and what we think of as the nature of work,\u201d says Jane Stinson, adjunct research faculty at the institute and another diploma program organizer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cThe approach to questions of climate change, settler colonialism and decolonization has undergone a profound transformation in the last few years, and we hope our students will get a good sense of that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Translating Classroom Study into the Workplace<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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At Nov. 8, 2019 the institute hosted academics, educators and representatives of some of Canada\u2019s largest unions at Carleton\u2019s Dominion-Chalmers Centre<\/a> in downtown Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Changing Worlds of Work and Labour conference<\/a> launched the new diploma and explored key topics in the field. Program organizers sought feedback through participatory discussions to ensure that the diploma will meet the needs both of students and labour organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A focus on reflective practice aims to ensure that classroom study translates into the workplace. Students employed at a labour organization will engage in reflective research about their work under the supervision of a professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For graduate students, a work placement will offer invaluable experience inside the nerve centre of a labour organization. Many of Canada\u2019s labour and work-related organizations have national offices in Ottawa, and there are practical aspects of research, policy analysis and educational program development work that can\u2019t be replicated in a classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cWork and labour is dynamic and complex,\u201d say Stinson and Paulson.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cIt can be difficult to fully grasp in an academic setting.  Experiential learning through a placement with a labour organization will expose students to the issues labour organizations are facing are right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information, visit <\/em>Carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The nature of work has changed profoundly \u2013 and that change is not yet over. Factory jobs have been automated or offshored to jurisdictions with lower labour costs. Permanent, full-time employment is harder to find, even for highly trained professionals. Jobs have become more precarious \u2013 if they can be called jobs at all. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":61608,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_story_type":[1592],"cu_story_tag":[1921,1923],"class_list":["post-61584","cu_story","type-cu_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_story_type-teaching-learning","cu_story_tag-faculty-of-public-and-global-affairs","cu_story_tag-graduate-studies"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"blueprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/61584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/61584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97734,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/61584\/revisions\/97734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_story_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_type?post=61584"},{"taxonomy":"cu_story_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_tag?post=61584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}