I’ve been meaning to post this since last week as a follow-up to my post on what’s wrong with our mainstream conceptualization of work, but things have been really crazy lately! The university has called for a forced ratification vote (thanks to an anti-labour legislation brought in by our erstwhile Premier Mike Harris), which means that they’ve ( Read more... )

These thoughts were partly further inspired by that book, Rich Dad Poor Dad, that I talked about a couple of posts ago. But they’ve also come from thinking about the strike in which I’m currently engaged, and about why the work of our TAs and contract faculty is so badly undervalued by our government and the university executive, and even by the ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about this a lot because of the strike ( Read more... )