Teachers’ Work in Contentious Political Times (Part 2)
Vol. 37 No. 1 (2026)

Workplace #37 includes the second installment of a series on Teachers’ Work in Contentious Political Times edited by Dana Morrison (West Chester University), Brianne Kramer (Southern Utah University), Lauren Ware Stark (Université de Sherbrooke), Erin Dyke (Oklahoma State University), and Denisha Jones (Defending the Early Years).


 

Teachers’ Work in Contentious Political Times (Special Series, Part 1) + GLRC Symposium + Featured Articles & Commentary
Vol. 36 No. 1 (2025)

Workplace #36 includes the first installment of a series on Teachers’ Work in Contentious Political Times edited by Dana Morrison (West Chester University), Brianne Kramer (Southern Utah University), Lauren Ware Stark (Université de Sherbrooke), Erin Dyke (Oklahoma State University), and Denisha Jones (Defending the Early Years).


Jelena Starcevic (Cornell University) and Farah Deeba Chowdhury (York University) contribute new articles in the Workplace series featuring research from the Global Labour Research Centre Symposium at York University. 


Featured articles include studies of: shared governance in academic libraries by Sarah Fitzgerald, Therese Kaufman, and Jaime Taylor (University of Massachusetts Amherst); how activist resistance on campus produces a shared sense of community by Kefaya Diab (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), Andrew Bowman (Independent Scholar), Bruce Kovanen (North Dakota State University), Liz Miller (The Ohio State University), and Jonathan Isaac (University of Washington); the relationship between social-well being and multi-locational work in a Finnish university by Maija Nyman, Satu Uusiautti, and Timo Aarrevaara (University of Lapland).


The WP Commentary section includes the latest in a series of "Bronx essays" by Ali Shehzad Zaidi.

Canadian Strike Wave of 2021-2022 / Beyond Campus / Global Labour Research Centre Symposium
Vol. 35 No. 1 (2024)

Articles in Workplace 35 address a variety of labour issues on campus and beyond, including the first in a series of articles by graduate student participants in the Global Labour Research Centre Symposium at York University.

The Labour of COVID
Vol. 33 (2022)

This special edition of Workplace explores the effects of COVID-19 on the labour of post secondary education and learning.

Workplace Presents: Scholactivism
No. 30 (2018)

Workplace presents "Scholactivism," a collaboration with Cultural Logic and Works & Days. This special issue is edited by Joseph G. Ramsey.

Faculty Governance and Satisfaction in Higher Education
No. 29 (2017)

Special Issue Edited by Sydney Freeman, Jr.

Marx, Engels and the Critique of Academic Labor
No. 28 (2016)

Special Issue Edited by Karen Gregory & Joss Winn

iPopU
No. 27 (2016)

Educate. Agitate. Organize: New and Not-So-New Teacher Movements
No. 26 (2016)

Special Issue Edited by Mark Stern, Amy E. Brown & Khuram Hussain

The New Academic Labor Market and Graduate Students
No. 22 (2013)

Special Issue Edited by Bradley J. Porfilio, Julie A. Gorlewski & Shelley Pineo-Jensen

Belonging and non-Belonging: Costs and Consequences in Academic Lives
No. 19 (2012)

Special Issue Edited by Michelle K. McGinn

Mental Labor
No. 15 (2008)

Special Issue Edited by Steven Wexler

Beyond the Picket Line: Academic Organizing after the Long NYU Strike
No. 14 (2007)

Special Issue Edited by Michael Palm

Academic Freedom & IP Rights in an Era of the Automation & Commercialization of Higher Education
No. 13 (2005)

Special Issue Edited by Mary Bryson, Stephen Petrina & Lorraine Weir