We held our second annual conference! Featuring presentations by MCREW members from across the McMaster campus and a graduate student poster session, the conference brought together researchers from a wide range of disciplines studying work and workers.

Registration and coffee 8:45-9:15am

First session 9:15-10:30am
Ala Mokhtar, Accounting and Financial Management Services, “Screening precommitment, candidate quality, and time-to-hire: An experimental investigation”
Diana Singh, Sociology / ARMS Executive Director, “The hidden work of caring: Emotional labour in public libraries”
Yao Yao, Human Resources and Management, “From data anxiety to social trusteeship: How digital transformation reconfigures the HRM profession’s status and identity quests”

Coffee break 10:30-11:00am

Second session 11:00-11:55am
Kim Jones, Chemical Engineering, “Near-peer coaching for early-career equity-deserving faculty members in engineering”
Sean O’Brady, Human Resources and Management, “Leveraging algorithmic control against worker power: A new model for union busting the precariat”

Lunch and student poster session 11:55am-1:00pm

Third session 1:00-2:15pm
Meena Andiappan, Human Resources and Management, “The currency of vulnerability: The co-creation and consolidation of organizational corruption in the Nigerian police force”
Suzanne Mills, Labour Studies & Earth, Environment and Society, “Moving away from work: Inter-regional migration to Canada’s hinterlands”
Cansu Ekmekcioglu, Information Systems, “Information intermediation in settlement work”