{"id":3130,"date":"2018-10-11T22:19:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T02:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=3130"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:13:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:13:50","slug":"precarious-employment-labour-the-future-of-work","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/people\/precarious-employment-labour-the-future-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe McKnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>Before beginning your studies at the Institute of Political Economy where did you study and what program(s) were you enrolled in?<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">I have a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Waterloo and a Master of Journalism from Ryerson University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>What is it specifically that attracted you to study Political Economy at Carleton? <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Its interdisciplinary structure. It&#8217;s also one of the very few Political Economy programs offered&nbsp;in Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>My areas of research interest include\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The future of work, especially precarious employment and its social&nbsp;consequences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>What other activities have you been involved in lately? <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Professionally,&nbsp;I&#8217;ve been researching labour&nbsp;rights protection in global supply chains for the Canadian Labour Congress, mining employment in the North for a Carleton professor, and aspects of modernizing the&nbsp;federal&nbsp;labour code for a government department. Academically, I am starting to tackle my thesis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>What advice would you give to a prospective Political Economy graduate student? <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Spend some time thinking about your thesis or MRP topic very&nbsp;early on, because it can help guide your&nbsp;decision-making and priorities, and make sure it&#8217;s a topic you won&#8217;t get bored with.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3131,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Zoe","cu_people_last_name":"McKnight","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[89],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-3130","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-alumni"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Precarious employment, labour, the future of work","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","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\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/3130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}