Leah F. Vosko, FRSC, is Distinguished Research Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics at York University. Her current research examines labour market insecurity/precarious employment, employment standards enforcement, international mobility programs, and deportability among workers labouring transnationally. She is the principal investigator of “Liberating Migrant Labour? International Mobility Programs in Settler-Colonial Context", a SSHRC Partnership Grant; "Canada's "New" International Mobility Program: Charting Differential Inclusion in the Transformation of Temporary Migrant Labour", a SSHRC Insight Grant; and, the Canada Labour Code-Data Analysis Infrastructure (CLC-DAI), an initiative involving a partnership with the Government of Canada’s Labour Program supported by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Research Fund; and four research and teaching databases – the Gender and Work Database (GWD), the Comparative Perspectives Database (CPD), the Employment Standards Database (ESD) and the CLC-DAI.
Her most recent authored books include Migrant Work By Another Name: Differential Inclusion and Precarity under Canada’s International Mobility Program (University of Toronto Press, 2025), Transnational Employment Strain in a Global Health Pandemic: Migrant Farmworkers in Canada (Vosko et al., Palgrave, 2023), Closing the Enforcement Gap: Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs (Vosko and the Closing the Enforcement Gap Research Group, University of Toronto Press, 2020), and Disrupting Deportability: Transnational Workers Organize (Cornell/ILR Press, 2019).
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Degrees
PhD, York University
MA Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University
BA Political Studies, Trent University
Appointments
Faculty of Health
Professional Leadership
2023-Present. Advisor, Creating Sustainable Work: Tackling Precarious Employment for a Better Future, Stockholm, Sweden
2021-Present. Academic Advisor, Labour Market Non-Compliance in the UK, Director of Labour Market Enforcement & Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK
2020 – Present. Member, Expert Working Group on Migrant Worker Health Project
2019 – Present. Member, Expert Working Group on Temporary Labour Migration, International Labour Organization
Community Contributions
Gender and Work Database (GWD) (www.genderwork.ca/gwd)
The Gender and Work Database (GWD) is an interdisciplinary research tool, whose development I have overseen since 2001 with the support of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Research Fund. The product of a collaboration involving over fifty scholars, policy researchers, statisticians, and university librarians, it contains seven interactive research modules, each representing different slices or points of entry into the field of gender and work. Module topics include: health care; migration; precarious employment; technology; unions; and unpaid work. The GWD has three core components: interactive, multidimensional statistical tables created using custom runs from Canadian surveys, conceptualized by researchers; a searchable library containing papers, citations to papers, and links to relevant theoretical and empirical works; and, a thesaurus of concepts and terms designed to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and exchange. The GWD became fully operational in 2006 and revised and updated (to include data up to) in 2015. It is available to researchers and students tied to the seventy-two institutions involved in the Data Liberation Initiative between Statistics Canada and Canadian colleges and universities, public policy analysts pursuing research for non-commercial purposes in Canada and internationally, and researchers outside Canada participating in the project.
Comparative Perspectives on Precarious Employment Database (CPD) (www.genderwork.ca/cpd)
The Comparative Perspectives on Precarious Employment Database (CPD) was developed under my oversight since 2006 with the support of the Leadership Opportunities fund of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Research Fund. Launched in Spring 2015, the CPD brings together a library of secondary and primary resources, unique user-friendly statistical tables, and a thesaurus of concepts – all geared to understanding precarious employment in comparative industrial context. Drawing on thirty years of data from the EUROSTAT, the Household Income Dynamics in Australia Survey, various open-source US surveys and several Statistics Canada surveys, it includes customized original multidimensional tables that researchers may use to explore and compare the contours of precarious employment in thirty-three countries, including Australia, Canada, the United States, twenty-seven European Union (EU) member countries and three non-EU member countries. The CPD is designed both for researchers, inside and outside the academy (e.g., in the NGO and government sectors), as well as students. In addition to facilitating research, it can also be used as an interactive classroom teaching tool. Functioning much like an online book, the CPD’s introduction provides basic information on the conceptual approach to studying precarious employment in a comparative perspective adopted in the database, an explanation of its methodology, and an outline of the design principles behind the creation of harmonized variables used in statistical tables. These principles are further developed in three interactive research modules on forms of precarious employment, temporal and spatial dynamics, and health and social care.
Employment Standards Database (ESD) (https://www.genderwork.ca/esd/) (launched May 2025)
The Employment Standards Database (ESD) is an online tool, funded by the Leadership Opportunities Fund of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Research Fund, that brings together a library of resources on employment standards, unique user-friendly statistical tables, a reference guide for national definitions of employment standards, and a thesaurus of concepts. Though it was developed using the platform of the GWD and the CPD, the ESD is methodologically distinct from its precursors in that it draws together principally small-scale surveys developed by researchers rather than national and supranational social statistics agencies. It is also distinct as it includes data derived from a unique survey of access to employment standards and their enforcement in Ontario. Users of the ESD are able to view and analyze its multidimensional tables to explore and compare employment standards in Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Like its precursors, the ESD’s target audiences are both senior researchers and junior scholars. The database includes interactive research modules on wages & wage compensation, hours, complaints & enforcement, termination & severance, and non-wage benefits & compensation.
Canada Labour Code-Data Analysis Infrastructure (CLC-DAI)
The Canada Labour Code-Data Analysis Infrastructure (CLC-DAI) is an initiative under my direction of academics in partnership with the Government of Canada's Labour Program. Funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Research Fund, this infrastructure enabled researchers to transform a large-scale administrative database that the Labour Program maintains into a research database tool yielding new insights into labour standards compliance across Canada. Charged with enforcement of the Canada Labour Code (CLC), the Labour Program collects administrative data on its enforcement activities in a database known as the Labour Application 2000 (LA2K). The LA2K contains a near-complete census of complaints submitted under Part III of the CLC, which sets standards in areas such as minimum wages, hours of work and vacations for employees in the federal jurisdiction. The CLC-DAI provides the technical interface necessary to allow researchers to analyze administrative data to identify common patterns of labour standards (non)compliance, establish models to predict the most likely offenders and violation types, and to evaluate the impact of regulatory efforts.
Research Interests
Gender Issues, Labour, Migration, Political Economy, Citizenship ,
Indigenous Studies
Distinguished Research Professor, York University - 2024
Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Gender & Work (Tier 1), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - 2010-2024
CIRA (Canadian Industrial Relations Association) Gérard Dion Award for outstanding contribution to Industrial Relations - 2023
CAWLS (Canadian Association for Work & Labour Studies) Best Book Prize for Disrupting Deportability (2020) and for Closing the Enforcement Gap (2021) -
York University Research Leader, awarded jointly by the Offices of the President and the Vice-President Research and Innovation - 2021
York University Research Leader 2020, awarded jointly by the Offices of the President and the Vice-President Research and Innovation - 2020
Impact Award (Insight Category), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - 2019
York University Research Leader 2017, awarded jointly by the Offices of the President and the Vice-President Research and Innovation - 2017
Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Policy Research, Broadbent Institute - 2016
York University Research Leader 2016, awarded jointly by the Offices of the President and the Vice-President Research and Innovation - 2016
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - 2015
York University Research Leader 2014, awarded jointly by the Offices of the President and the Vice-President Research and Innovation - 2014
Visting Research Professor, Industrial and Labor Relations School, Cornell - 2011-2012
(Ontario) Premier’s Research Excellence Award - 2005-2010
Canada Research Chair in Feminist Political Economy (Tier 2), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - 2001-2010
Current Research Projects
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Partnership Grant, “Liberating Migrant Labour? International Mobility Programs in Settler-Colonial Contexts”
Summary:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Partnership Grant, “Liberating Migrant Labour? International Mobility Programs in Settler-Colonial Contexts,” Principal Investigator, April 2023-March 2030
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Principal Investigator
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Month: Mar Year: 2030
Conditions of Work and Equality Department (Labour Migration Division), International Labour Organization, “Valuing the essential: Building resilience in the world of work.” Country study on Canadian Agriculture to inform WESO Thematic Report 2022-23, Principal Investigator
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Conditions of Work and Equality Department (Labour Migration Division), International Labour Organization, “Valuing the essential: Building resilience in the world of work.” Country study on Canadian Agriculture to inform WESO Thematic Report 2022-23, Principal Investigator
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Principal Investigator
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Development Grant, “Divide and Colonize?: The "Core of Indianness" in Labour Law and Policy and its Effects”, Principal Investigator
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Development Grant, “Divide and Colonize?: The "Core of Indianness" in Labour Law and Policy and its Effects”, Principal Investigator
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Principal Investigator
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Month: Jul Year: 2021
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Month: Jul Year: 2023
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Grant, “Canada's "New" International Mobility Program: Charting Differential Inclusion in the Transformation of Temporary Migrant Labour”, Principal Investigator, July 2021-July 2028
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Grant, “Canada's "New" International Mobility Program: Charting Differential Inclusion in the Transformation of Temporary Migrant Labour”, Principal Investigator, July 2021-July 2028
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Principal Investigator
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Month: Jul Year: 2021
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Month: Jul Year: 2028
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Partnership Engage Grant COVID-19 Special Initiative, “COVID-19: Pandemic Survey of Migrant Agricultural Workers in Ontario,” Collaborator, (Principal Investigator Jenna Hennebry), December 1, 2020-November 30, 2021
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Partnership Engage Grant COVID-19 Special Initiative, “COVID-19: Pandemic Survey of Migrant Agricultural Workers in Ontario,” Collaborator, (Principal Investigator Jenna Hennebry), December 1, 2020-November 30, 2021
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Collaborator
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Month: Dec Year: 2020
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Month: Nov Year: 2021
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Grant, “Examining Intersecting and Policy Factors Influencing Housing, Safety and Wellbeing of Migrant Agricultural Workers from 2017 - 2020: A Bi-provincial Analysis,” Collaborator (Principal Investigator Claudia Susana Caxaj), October 2020-October 2023
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Grant, “Examining Intersecting and Policy Factors Influencing Housing, Safety and Wellbeing of Migrant Agricultural Workers from 2017 - 2020: A Bi-provincial Analysis,” Collaborator (Principal Investigator Claudia Susana Caxaj), October 2020-October 2023
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Month: Oct Year: 2020
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Month: Oct Year: 2023
Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Impact Award (Insight Category), 2019
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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Impact Award (Insight Category), 2019
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Canadian Foundation for Innovation, John Evans Leadership Opportunity Fund Grant, “Canada Labour Code Data Analysis Infrastructure (CLC-DAI),” Principal Investigator, January 2018
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Canadian Foundation for Innovation, John Evans Leadership Opportunity Fund Grant, “Canada Labour Code Data Analysis Infrastructure (CLC-DAI),” Principal Investigator, January 2018
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Month: Jan Year: 2018
End Date:
Month: Dec Year: 2020
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John Evans Leadership Opportunity Fund Grant
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Partnership Grant, “Closing the Enforcement Gap: Improving Employment Standards for Workers in Precarious Jobs,” Principal Investigator, March 2013
Summary:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Partnership Grant, “Closing the Enforcement Gap: Improving Employment Standards for Workers in Precarious Jobs,” Principal Investigator, March 2013
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Partnership Grant,
Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Leadership Opportunity Fund Grant, “Global Employment Standards Database (GESD),” Principal Investigator, January 2012-December 2016
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Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Leadership Opportunity Fund Grant, “Global Employment Standards Database (GESD),” Principal Investigator, January 2012-December 2016
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Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Leadership Opportunity Fund Grant
Law Commission of Ontario, Research grants to prepare two monographs for Vulnerable Workers Taskforce Co-Investigator with Mary Gellatly, Mark P. Thomas, Eric Tucker and Co-Investigator with Andrea Noack , Summer 2011
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Law Commission of Ontario, Research grants to prepare two monographs for Vulnerable Workers Taskforce Co-Investigator with Mary Gellatly, Mark P. Thomas, Eric Tucker and Co-Investigator with Andrea Noack , Summer 2011
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Law Commission of Ontario, Research grants
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant, “A New Approach to Labour Market Membership: Canadian Employment Policy in Focus,” Principal Investigator, Spring 2010-2013
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant, “A New Approach to Labour Market Membership: Canadian Employment Policy in Focus,” Principal Investigator, Spring 2010-2013
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Vosko, Leah F. (2025). Migrant Work By Another Name: Differential Inclusion and Precarity in Canada’s International Mobility Program. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
2025
Vosko, Leah F., Tanya Basok and Cynthia Spring. (2023). Transnational Employment Strain in a Global Health Pandemic: Migrant Farm Workers in Canada. London: Palgrave.
2023
Vosko, Leah F. et al. (2020). Closing the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap: Improving Protections for People in Precarious Jobs. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2020
Thomas, Mark, Leah F. Vosko, Carlo Fanelli and Olena Lyubchenko (eds.). (2019). Change and Continuity: Rethinking the New Canadian Political Economy. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2019
Vosko, Leah F. (2019). Disrupting Deportability: Transnational Workers Organize. Ithaca: Cornell University Press (ILR imprint).
2019
Vosko, Leah F., Valerie Preston and Robert Latham (eds.). (2014). Liberating Temporariness?: Migration, Work and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity. McGill-Queen’s University Press: Montreal and Kingston.
2014
Vosko, Leah F. (2010). Managing the Margins: Gender, Citizenship and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment. (Politics and Business Series) Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
2010
Vosko, Leah F., Martha MacDonald and Iain Campbell (eds.). (2009). Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment. London and New York: Routledge Press (Advances in Feminist Economics Series).
2009
Vosko, Leah F. (ed.). (2006). Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2006
Cranford, Cynthia, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker and Leah F. Vosko (eds.) .(2005). Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy, and Unions. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2005
Stanford, Jim and Leah F. Vosko. (eds). (2004). Challenging the Market: The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2004
Clement, Wallace and Leah F. Vosko (eds.). (2003). Changing Canada: The Political Economy of Transformation. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2003
Andrew, Caroline, Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, Wallace Clement and Leah F. Vosko (eds.). (2003). Studies in Political Economy: Developments in Feminism. Toronto: Women’s Press
2003
Vosko, Leah F. (2000). Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2000
Book Chapters
Publication
Year
Vosko, Leah F. (2025) “Challenging the Global Migration/Mobility Program Policy Construct: Labour Market (In)Security Under Canada’s “New” International Mobility Program” in Kuptch, Christiane and Fabiola Mieres (eds.) Temporary Labour Migration: Towards Social Justice. International Institute for Labour Studies: ILO, Geneva: 87-105.
2025
Noack, Andrea M., Eric Tucker and Leah F. Vosko (2025) “Precarious Employment in Labour Law and Policy” in Beland, Daniel, Mahon, Rianne, and Alison Smith (eds.). Oxford Handbook of Social Policy in Canada. New York: Oxford University Press.
2025
Noack, Andrea M., Leah F. Vosko, Eric Tucker and Rebecca Casey. (2024). “'Chapter 38: Surveys and Administrative Data” in Blackham, Alysia and Sean Conney(eds.), Handbook on Research Methods in Labour Law: Surveys and Administrative DataEdward Elgar Press: 382-398.
2024
Abu-Laban, Yasmeen, Kiera Ladner, Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, and Leah F. Vosko (2024). ““Refusal has been really important in my life”: Political Science Aunties Discuss Feministing in Political Science” in Cattapan, Alanna, Ethel Tungohan, Nisha Nath MacDonald, and Stephanie Paterson (eds.), Feministing in Political Science. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press: 315-330.
2024
Vosko, Leah F., Noack, Andrea M., King, Adam and Rebecca Hii. (2022). “Precarious Employment and the Security Premium in Canada’s Federally-Regulated Private Sector” in Peters, John and Don Wells (eds.), Canadian Labour Policy and Politics: Inequality and Alternatives . Ontario: Oxford University Press Canada.
2022
Marsden, Sarah, Eric Tucker and Leah F. Vosko. (2021). "The Trilemma of Canadian Migrant Worker Policy: Facilitating Employer Access while Protecting the Canadian Labour Market and Addressing Migrant Worker Exploitation?" in Dauvergne, Catherine (ed.), Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Migration . Edward Elgar Press.
2021
Thomas, Mark P. and Leah F. Vosko (2019). “Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium, ” in Thomas, Mark P., Leah F. Vosko, Carlo Fanelli and Olena Lyubchenko (eds.), Change and Continuity: Rethinking the New Canadian Political Economy. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2019
Vosko, Leah F. (2019). “Feminist Political Economy and Everyday Research on Work and Employment: The Case of the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap” in Thomas, Mark P., Leah F. Vosko, Carlo Fanelli and Olena Lyubchenko (eds.), Change and Continuity: Rethinking the New Canadian Political Economy. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2019
Vosko, Leah F., Grundy, John and Mark P. Thomas. (2017). “Beyond New Governance: Evaluating New Approaches to Employment Standards Enforcement in Liberal Market Economies,” in Colin Fenwick (ed.), Regulating for Equitable and Job-Rich Growth. Palgrave/International Labour Organization. International Institute for Labour Studies: ILO, Geneva.
2017
Latham, Robert, Leah F. Vosko, Valerie Preston and Melisa Breton. (2014). “Challenges to Liberating Temporariness: Imagining Alternatives to Permanence as a Pathway for Social Inclusion,” in Vosko, Leah F., Valerie Preston and Robert Latham (eds.), Liberating Temporariness?: Migration, Work and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity. McGill-Queen’s University Press: Montreal and Kingston. (shared first authorship between Latham, Vosko and Preston).
2014
Vosko, Leah F. (2012). “The Challenge of Expanding EI Coverage,” in Banting, Keith and Jon Medow (eds.), Making EI Work: Research from the Mowat Centre Employment Insurance Task Force. Toronto and Montreal: Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation, McGill-Queen’s University Press and Queen’s School of Policy Studies: 57-119
2012
Vosko, Leah F. (2011). “Out of the Shadows? The Non-Binding Multilateral Framework on Migration (2006) and Prospects for Forging Global Labour Market Membership through International Labour Regulation,” in Davidov, Guy and Brian Langille, (eds.), The Idea of Labour Law. London, Hart Publishing: 365-384
2011
Vosko, Leah F. (2011). “Precarious Employment and the Problem of SER-Centrism: Regulating for ‘Decent Work’.” in Lee, Sangheon and Deirdre McCann, (eds.), Regulating for Decent Work: New Directions in Labour Market Regulation. Geneva and London: ILO/Palgrave: 57-89.
2011
Vosko, Leah F. and Lisa F. Clark. (2009). “Gendered Precariousness and Social Reproduction in Canada,” in Vosko, Leah F., Martha MacDonald and Iain Campbell, (eds.), Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment. London and New York: Routledge Press: 26-42
2009
Vosko, Leah F., Martha MacDonald and Iain Campbell. (2009). “Introduction: Gender and the Concept of Precarious Employment,” in Vosko, Leah F., Martha MacDonald and Iain Campbell (eds.), Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment. London and New York: Routledge Press: 1-25.
2009
Vosko, Leah F. (2009). “Precarious Employment and the Challenges for Employment Policy,” in Cohen, Marjorie and Jane Pulkingham (eds.), Public Policy for Women in Canada: The State, Income Security, and Labour Market Issues. Toronto: University of Toronto Press: 374-395.
2009
Vosko, Leah F. (2008). “ILO Action on ‘The Scope of the Employment Relationship’: Lessons from Canada on Fostering Social Cohesion,” in O’Brien, Robert (ed.), Solidarity First: Canadian Workers and Social Cohesion. Vancouver: UBC Press: 169-189.
2008
Vosko, Leah F. (2008). “‘Lifelong Learning’ and Precarious Work: Challenging the Paradigm of Employability Security,” in Livingstone, David, Kiran Mirchandani and Peter Sawchuk (eds.), The Future of Lifelong Learning and Work: Critical Perspectives. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam: 157-170.
2008
Vosko, Leah F. (2007). “Gendered Labour Market Insecurities: Manifestations of Precarious
Employment in Different Locations,” in Shalla, Vivian and Wallace Clement (eds.), Work and Labour in Tumultuous Times: Critical Perspectives. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press: 50-95.
2007
Vosko, Leah F. (2007). “Representing Informal Economy Workers: Emerging Global Strategies and their Lessons for North American Unions,” in Cobble, Dorothy Sue (ed.), The Sex of Class: Women and America’s New Labour Movements. Ithaca: Cornell University Press: 272-290.
2007
Cranford, Cynthia J., Mary Gellatly, Deena Ladd and Leah F. Vosko. (2006). “Community Unionism and Labour Movement Renewal: Organizing for Fair Employment,” in Kumar, Pradeep and Christopher Schenk (eds.), Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, Garamond Press, and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: 237–249.
2006
Cranford, Cynthia J. and Leah F. Vosko. (2006). “Conceptualizing Precarious Employment: Mapping Wage Work across Social Location and Occupational Context,” in Vosko, Leah F. (ed.), Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press: 43-66.
2006
Vosko, Leah F. (2006). “Crisis Tendencies in Social Reproduction: The Case of Ontario’s Early Year’s Plan,” in Bezanson, Kate and Meg Luxton (eds.), Rethinking Social Reproduction: Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neo-liberalism. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press: 145-172.
2006
Vosko, Leah F. (2006). “Gender, Precarious Work and the International Labour Code: The Ghost in the Closet,” in Fudge, Judy and Rosemary Owens (eds.), Precarious Work, Women and the New Economy: The Challenge to Legal Norms. Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing: 53-75.
2006
Vosko, Leah F. and Nancy Zukewich. (2006). “Precarious by Choice? Gender and Self-Employment,” in Vosko, Leah F. (ed.), Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press: 67-89.
2006
Bernstein, Stephanie, Katherine Lippel, Eric Tucker and Leah F. Vosko. (2006). “Precarious Employment and the Law’s Flaws: Identifying Regulatory Failure and Securing Effective Protection for Workers,” in Vosko, Leah F. (ed.), Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press: 203-220.
2006
Cranford, Cynthia J., Tania Das Gupta, Deena Ladd and Leah F. Vosko. (2006). “Thinking through Community Unionism,” in Vosko, Leah F. (ed.), Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press: 353-377.
2006
Vosko, Leah F. (2006). “What Is to Be Done? Harnessing Knowledge to Mitigate Precarious Employment,” in Vosko, Leah F. (ed.), Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press: 379-388.
2006
Stanford, Jim and Leah F. Vosko. (2004). “Challenging the Market: The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income,” in Stanford, Jim and Leah F. Vosko (eds.), Challenging the Market: The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press: 3-33.
2004
Vosko, Leah F. (2004). “Standard-Setting at the ILO: The Case of Precarious Employment,” in Kirton, John and Michael J. Trebilcock (eds.), Hard Choices, Soft Law: Combining Trade, Environment, and Social Cohesion in Global Governance. New York: Ashgate: 139-157.
2004
Clement, Wallace and Leah F. Vosko. (2003). “Changing Canada: Political Economy As Transformation (Introduction).” in Clement, Wallace and Leah F. Vosko (eds.), Changing Canada: Political Economy as Transformation. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press: xi-xxxii.
2003
Vosko, Leah F. (2003). “Gender Differentiation and the Standard/Non-Standard Employment Distinction in Canada, 1945 to the Present” in Juteau, Danielle (ed.), Patterns and Processes of Social Differentiation: The Construction of Gender, Age, ‘Race/Ethnicity’ and Locality. University of Toronto Press/University of Montreal Press. French and English: 25-80.
2003
Fudge, Judy and Leah F. Vosko. (2003). “Gendered Paradoxes and the Rise of Contingent Work: Towards a Transformative Feminist Political Economy of the Labour Market.” in Clement, Wallace and Leah F. Vosko (eds.), Changing Canada: Political Economy as Transformation. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press: 183-213.
2003
Armstrong, Pat, Andrew, Caroline and Leah F. Vosko. (2003). “General Introduction,” in Andrew, Caroline, Armstrong, Pat, Armstrong, Hugh, Clement, Wallace and Leah F. Vosko (eds.), Studies in Political Economy: Developments in Feminism. Toronto: Women’s Press.
2003
Vosko, Leah F. (2003). “The Pasts (and Futures) of Feminist Political Economy in Canada: Reviving the Debate” in Andrew, Caroline, Armstrong, Pat, Armstrong, Hugh, Clement, Wallace and Leah F. Vosko (eds.), Studies in Political Economy: Developments in Feminism. Toronto: Women’s Press. *(modified and reprinted from SPE 2002 April)
2003
Vosko, Leah F. (2003). “‘Decent Work’: The Shifting Role of the ILO and the Struggle for Global Social Justice,” in Cohen, Marjorie and Stephen McBride (eds.), Global Turbulence: Social Activists and State Responses to Globalization. UK: Ashgate 174-191. *(chapter designed for classroom use based on article in Global Social Policy 2002 April).
2003
Vosko, Leah F. (2002). “Mandatory ‘Marriage’ or Obligatory Waged Work: Social Assistance and the Single Mother’s Complex Roles in Wisconsin and Ontario,” in Bashevkin, Sylvia. (ed.) Women’s Work is Never Done: Comparative Studies in Care-Giving, Employment, And Social Policy Reform. New York, Routledge: 165-199.
2002
Cobble, Dorothy Sue and Leah F. Vosko. (2000). “Historical Perspectives on Representing Workers in ‘Non-Standard’ Employment,” in F. Carre, M.A. Ferber, I. Golden and S.A. Herzenberg (eds.), Nonstandard Work: The Nature and Challenges of Changing Employment Relations. Champagne, IL: Industrial Relations Research Association: 291-312
2000
Vosko, Leah F. (1999). "Workfare Temporaries: Workfare and the Rise of the Temporary Employment Relationship in Ontario " in Broad, D. (ed.), Citizens or Consumers: Social Policy in a Market Society. Halifax and Vancouver: Fernwood Press: 55-79 (Reprinted from Canadian Review of Social Policy. November (1998).)
1999
Vosko, Leah F. (1996). "Irregular Workers, New Involuntary Social Exiles: Women and UI Reform." in Pulkingham, J. and G. Ternowetsky (eds.), Remaking Canadian Social Policy: Social Security in the Late 1990s. Toronto: Fernwood Press: 265-272.
1996
Vosko, Leah F. (1995). "Recreating Dependency: Women and UI Reform." in Drache, D.and A. Ranikin (eds.). Warm Heart, Cold Country. Toronto: Caledon Press: 213-231.
1995
Monographs
Publication
Year
Vosko, Leah F., Tanya Basok, Cynthia Spring, Guillermo Candiz and Glynis George. (2022). “COVID-19 Among Migrant Farmworkers in Canada: Employment Strain in a Transnational Context.” International Labour Organization, Geneva.
2022
Vosko, Leah F., Andrea M. Noack and Eric Tucker. (2016). “Employment Standards (‘ES’) Coverage and Enforcement: A scan of employment standards complaints and their resolution under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (‘ESA’),” Ontario Ministry of Labour Changing Workplaces Review.
2016
Vosko, Leah F., Andrea M. Noack and Mark P. Thomas. (2016). “Employment Standards (‘ES’) Coverage and Enforcement: How far does the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (‘ESA’) extend and what are the gaps in coverage?" Ontario Ministry of Labour Changing Workplaces Review.
2016
Vosko, Leah F., Eric Tucker, Mark P. Thomas and Mary Gellatly. (2012). “New Approaches to Enforcement and Compliance with Labour Regulatory Standards: The Case of Ontario, Canada,” Toronto: Law Commission of Ontario.
2012
Noack, Andrea M. and Leah F. Vosko. (2012). “Precarious Jobs in Ontario: Mapping Dimensions of Labour Market in Security by Workers’ Social Location and Context,” Toronto: Law Commission of Ontario.
2012
Vosko, Leah F. (2011). “The Challenge of Expanding EI Coverage: Charting Exclusions and Partial Exclusions on the Bases of Gender, Immigration Status, Age, and Place of Residence and Exploring Avenues for Inclusive Policy Redesign,” Toronto: Mowat Centre for Public Policy.
2011
Vosko, Leah F. (2004). Confronting the Norm: Gender and the International Regulation of Precarious Work. Ottawa: Law Commission of Canada. http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection/JL2-27-2004E.pdf
2004
Vosko, Leah F. (ed.). (2003). Just Labour: Forum on Precarious Employment. (September)
2003
Fudge, Judy, Eric Tucker and Leah F. Vosko. (2003). “The Legal Concept of Employment: Marginalizing Workers.” Ottawa: The Law Commission of Canada.
2003
Vosko, Leah F. (2002). Rethinking Feminization: Gendered Precariousness in the Canadian Labour Market and the Crisis in Social Reproduction,” a monograph prepared for the Annual Robart’s Lecture, John P. Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies.
2002
Tucker, Eric and Leah F. Vosko. (2021). “Designing a Paid Employment Leave Program for Short-Term Sickness and Caregiving Needs.” Institute for Research on Public Policy.
Journal Articles
Publication
Year
Vosko, Leah F., Adam D. King, Andrea M. Noack, Eric Tucker, Mark Thomas, Timothy Gadanidis and Rebecca Casey (2024). “When Education Isn’t Enough: The Compliance Model of Labour Standards Enforcement in Canada’s Federally Regulated Private Sector,” Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal 25(2): 279-319.
2024
Vosko, Leah F. (2023) “Probationary Precarity?: Post-Graduation Work Permitholders in Canada.” International Migration. 00, 1-19. http ://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13152
2023
King, Adam D.K., Olena Lyubchenko, Leah F. Vosko, Andrea M., Noack, Rebecca J. Hall.(2023). “The Origins and Application of “the Core of Indianness” in Indigenous Labour Relations: Returning to Four B Manufacturing v. United Garment Workers of America.” Labour Le Travail (92): 123-148.
2023
Basok, Tanya, Eric Tucker, Leah F. Vosko et al. (2023). “The ‘contract’ and its Discontents: Can it Address Protection Gaps for Migrant Agricultural Workers in Canada?” International Migration. 00, 1-14 https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13121
2023
Hall, Alan, John Grundy, Leah F. Vosko and Rebecca Hall (2023) “’Vulnerable Workers’ and Third Way Governance: Shifting Subjects of Regulation in Ontario’s and Ontario’s Employment Standards Enforcement Regime,” Journal of Law and Political Economy. (3) 450-483.
2023
Hall, Rebecca, Leah F. Vosko, and Veldon Coburn. (2022). “Access to Social Assistance and Identity: A Relational Reading of Shubenacadie Indian Barnd v. Canada.” Social Politics. (shared first authorship). 29(4): 1520–1543 https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac020
2022
King, Adam D.K., Veldon Coburn, Leah F. Vosko, Olena Lyubchenko, Rebecca J. Hall, Andrea M. Noack. (2022). "'Determining the “Core of Indianness:' A Feminist Political Economy of the Double Exclusion of Indigenous Caring Labours in NIL/TU,O v BCGEU." Aboriginal Policy Studies. 10, 1: 63-89.
2022
Caxaj, Susana ….. Leah F. Vosko et al. (2022). “Migrant agricultural workers’ deaths in Ontario from January 2020 to June 2021: a qualitative descriptive study,” International Journal for Equity in Health. 21, 98: 1-17.
2022
Vosko, Leah F. (2022). “Through the Back-door: How Australia and Canada use Working Holiday Programs to Fulfill Demands for Migrant Work via Cultural Exchange.” Journal of Industrial Relations. 65, 1: 88-111. http://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13121
2022
Vosko, Leah F., Tanya Basok, Cynthia Spring, Guillermo Candiz and Glynis George. (2022). “Understanding Migrant Farmworkers’ Health and Well-Being during the Global COVID-19 Pandemic: Towards a Transnational Conceptualization of Employment Strain” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19 (14) 8574. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148574
2022
Vosko, Leah F. and Cynthia Spring. (2021). “COVID-19 Outbreaks in Canada and the Crisis of Migrant Farmworkers’ Social Reproduction: Transnational Labour and the Need for Greater Accountability Among Receiving States” Journal of International Migration and Integration. 23(4): 1765-1791. (released in 2021 at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-021-00905-21)
2021
Marsden, Sarah, Eric Tucker and Leah F. Vosko. (2021). ““Flawed by Design?: A Case Study of Federal Enforcement of Migrant Workers’ Labour Rights in Canada.” Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal. 23, 1: 71-102.
2021
Vosko, Leah F., Andrea M. Noack, Adam D.K. King, Victoria Osten and Emily J. Clare. (2021). “A Model Regulator? Investigating Reactive v. Proactive Labour Standards Enforcement in Canada’s Federally-Regulated Private Sector.” International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations. 37, 2&3: 161-182.
2021
Easton, Mark, Andrea M. Noack and Leah F. Vosko. (2020). "Are Franchises More Likely to Violate Employment Standards than Other Types of Businesses? Evidence from Ontario, Canada." Economic and Labour Relations Review. 32, 1 (March): 1-26. DOI: 10.1177/1035304620961862
2020
Chartrand, Tyler and Leah F. Vosko. (2020). “Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker and International Mobility Programs: Charting Change and Continuity Among Source Countries.” International Migration. 59(1): 89-103.
2020
Boris, Eileen and Leah F. Vosko. (2020). "Point-Counterpoint: The Making of the Woman Worker". Labor: Studies in Working Class History. 174, 4 (December): 106-112.
2020
Vosko, Leah F. (2020). "Temporary Labour Migration by Any Other Name: Differential Inclusion
under Canada’s “New” International Mobility Regime." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. (Published online October). 48, 1: 129-152. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2020.1834839
2020
Tucker, Eric, Leah F. Vosko, and Sarah Marsden. (2020). "What We Owe Workers as a Matter of Common Humanity: Sickness and Caregiving Leaves and Pay in the Age of Pandemics." Osgoode Hall Law Journal. 57, 3 (Fall): 665-704. (Shared first authorship with Eric Tucker
2020
Andrea M. Noack, Alice Hoe and Leah F. Vosko. (2020). “Who to inspect? Using employee complaint data to inform workplace inspections in Ontario.” Canadian Public Policy. 46, 3 (September): 429-443.
2020
Tucker, Eric, Leah F. Vosko, Rebecca Casey, Mark P. Thomas, John Grundy and Andrea M. Noack (2019). “Carrying Little Sticks: Is there a ‘Deterrence Gap’ in Employment Standards Enforcement in Ontario, Canada?”International Journal of Labour Law and Industrial Relations. 35(1) 1-30.
2019
Vosko, Leah F., Eric Tucker and Rebecca M. Casey (2019). "Enforcing Employment Standards for Migrant Agricultural Workers in Ontario: Exposing Underexplored Layers of Vulnerability". International Journal of Labour Law and Industrial Relations. 35(2) 227-254.
2019
*Vosko, Leah F., Eric Tucker and Rebecca M. Casey. (2019). “Enforcing Employment Standards for Migrant Agricultural Workers in Ontario: Exposing Underexplored Layers of Vulnerability.” International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations. 35(2): 227-254.
2019
Thomas, Mark P., Leah F. Vosko, Eric Tucker, Mercedes Steedman, Andrea M. Noack, John Grundy, Mary Gellatly and Lisa Leinveer (2019). “The Employment Standards Enforcement Gap and the Overtime Pay Exemption in Ontario.” Labour/Le travail. Vol. 84, Fall.
2019
Thomas, Mark P., Leah F. Vosko, Eric Tucker, Mercedes Steedman, Andrea M. Noack, John Grundy, Mary Gellatly and Lisa Leinveer. (2019). “The Employment Standards Enforcement Gap and the Overtime Pay Exemption in Ontario.” Labour/Le Travail. 84(Fall): 25-51.
2019
Vosko, Leah F., Grundy, John, Casey, Rebecca and Noack, Andrea M. (2018) “A Tattered Quilt: Exemptions and Special Rules under Ontario’s Employment Standards Act (2000)”. Canadian Employment and Labour Law Journal. 21(2) 267-298.
2018
Vosko, Leah F. (2018). “Legal but Deportable: Institutionalized Deportability and the Limits of Collective Bargaining among Participants in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program.” ILR Review Special Issue on The Impact of Immigrant Legalization Initiatives: International Perspectives. DOI:10.1177/0019793918756055
2018
Casey, Rebecca, Eric Tucker, Leah F. Vosko and Andrea M. Noack. (2018). “Using tickets in employment standards inspections: Deterrence as effective enforcement in Ontario, Canada?” Economic and Industrial Relations Review. 29(2) 228-249.
2018
Vosko, Leah F., John Grundy, Mark Thomas, Eric Tucker, Andrea M. Noack, Rebecca Casey, Mary Gellatly and Jennifer Mussell. (2017). “The Compliance Model of Employment Standards Enforcement: An Evidence-based Assessment of its Efficacy in Instances of Wage Theft.” Industrial Relations Journal. 48 (3) 256-273.
2017
Grundy, John, Andrea M. Noack, Leah F. Vosko and Rebecca Hii. (2017). “The Enforcement of Ontario’s Employment Standards Act: The Impact of Reforms.” Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques (shared second authorship with Noack, 30%). 43(3) 190-201.
2017
Vosko, Leah F. (2016). “Blacklisting as a Modality of Deportability: Mexico’s Response to Circular Migrant Agricultural Workers’ Pursuit of Collective Bargaining Rights in British Columbia, Canada.”Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 42, 8: 1371-1387.
2016
Vosko, Leah F. (2016). “Blacklisting as a Modality of Deportability: Mexico’s Response to Circular Migrant Agricultural Workers’ Pursuit of Collective Bargaining Rights in British Columbia, Canada.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 42, 8: 1371-1387. (first published online November 20, 2015 as DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2015.1111134)
2016
Vosko, Leah F., John Grundy and Mark Thomas. (2016). “Challenging New Governance: Evaluating New Approaches to Employment Standards Enforcement in Common Law Jurisdictions.” Economic and Industrial Democracy. 37: 373-398 (first published online September 8, 2014 as doi:10.1177/0143831X14546237)
2016
Tucker, E., Alan Hall, Leah Vosko, Rebecca Hall and Elliot Siemiatycki. (2016). “Making or Administering Law and Policy? Discretion and Judgement in Employment Standards Enforcement in Ontario." Canadian Journal of Law & Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société. 31 (April), 1: 65-86 (Published online November 23, 2015 as DOI:10.1017/cls.2015.34)
2016
Mirchandani, Kiran, Leah F. Vosko, Urvashi Soni-Sinha, J. Adam Perry, Andrea M. Noack, Rebecca Hall and Mary Gellatly. (2016). “Methodological k/nots: Designing research on the enforcement of labor standards.” Journal of Mixed Methods Research. June 8, 2016: 1-15 (Published online as DOI: 10.1177/1558689816651793) (equal authorship)
2016
Noack, Andrea, Leah F. Vosko and John Grundy. (2015). “Measuring Employment Standards Violations, Evasion and Erosion using a Telephone Survey.” Industrial Relations/ Relations Industrielles. (equal first authorship with Noack), 70, 1: 86-109.
2015
Vosko, Leah F. and Mark Thomas. (2014). “Confronting the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap: Exploring the Potential of Union Engagement in Employment Law in Ontario, Canada.” Journal of Industrial Relations. 56: 631-652.
2014
Vosko, Leah F. (2014). “Tenuously Unionized: Temporary Migrant Workers and the Limits of Formal Mechanisms Designed to Promote Collective Bargaining in British Columbia, Canada.” Industrial Law Journal. 43(4) December: 451-84.
2014
Vosko, Leah F. (2013). “‘Rights without Remedies’: Enforcing Employment Standards in Ontario by Maximizing Voice among Workers in Precarious Jobs.” Osgoode Hall Law Journal. 50 (4): 845-873.
2013
Vosko, Leah F. (2013). “National Sovereignty and Transnational Labour: the case of Mexican seasonal agricultural workers in British Columbia, Canada." Industrial Relations Journal. 56(44): 514–532
2013
Rajkumar, Deepa, Laurel Berkowitz, Leah F. Vosko, Valerie Preston, and Robert Latham. (2012). “At the Temporary-Permanent Divide: How Canada Produces Temporariness and Makes Citizens through its Security, Work, and Settlement Policies.” Citizenship Studies. 16 (3-4): 483-510. (equal authorship)
2012
Gellatly, Mary, John Grundy, Kiran Mirchandani, Adam Perry, Mark Thomas and Leah F. Vosko. (2011). “‘Modernizing’ Employment Standards? Administrative Efficiency, Market Regulation, and the Production of the Illegitimate Claimant in Ontario, Canada.” Economic and Labour Relations Review. 22 (2) (July): 81-106.
2011
Vosko, Leah F. (2010). “A New Approach to Regulating Temporary Agency Work in Ontario or Back to the Future?” Industrial Relations/ Relations Industrielles. 65, 4 (December): 632-653. (This article has been reprinted and translated into Swedish. It appears as: Vosko, Leah F. (2013). “Ett nytt synsätt på reglering av arbete vid bemanningsföretag i Ontario,
ellerTillbaka till framtiden?” Arbetarhistoria. 3-4: 16-26.)
2010
Vosko, Leah F. (2009). “Less than Adequate: Regulating Temporary Agency Work in the EU in the Face of an Internal Market in Services.” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society. (special issue on “Transforming Work”). Electronic copy: April, 1-17; Hard copy 2, 3, November.
2009
Fuller, Sylvia and Leah F. Vosko. (2008). “Temporary Employment and Social Inequality in Canada: Exploring Intersections of Gender, Race and Migration.” Social Indicators Research. 88 (1) August: 31-50.
2008
Vosko, Leah F. (2008). “Temporary Work in Transnational Labour Regulation: SER Centrism and the Risk of Exacerbating Gendered Precariousness.” Social Indicators Research. 88 (1) August: 131-145.
2008
Vosko, Leah. F. (2007). “Precarious Part-Time Work in Australia and in Transnational Labour Regulation: The Gendered Limits of SER-Centrism.” Labour and Industry. 17 (3) April: 99-125.
2007
Fudge, Judy, Eric Tucker, and Leah F. Vosko. (2003). “Changing Boundaries in Employment: Developing a New Platform for Labour Law.” Canada Labour and Employment Law Journal. 10 (3): 361-39
2003
Fudge, Judy, Tucker, Eric and Leah F. Vosko. (2003) . “Employee or Independent Contractor? Charting the Legal Significance of the Distinction in Canada.” Canadian Journal of Labour and Employment Law. 10 (2): 193-230.
2003
Cranford, Cynthia, Vosko, Leah F. and Nancy Zukewich. (2003) . “Precarious Employment in the Canadian Labour Market: A Statistical Portrait.” Just Labour. (September)
2003
Vosko, Leah F., Nancy Zukewick and Cynthia Cranford. (2003). “Precarious Jobs: A New Typology of Employment.” Perspectives on Labour and Income. Ottawa: Statistics Canada: October: 16-26.
2003
Cranford, Cynthia, Vosko, Leah F. and Nancy Zukewich. (2003). “The Gender of Precariousness in the Canadian Labour Force.” Industrial Relations. (September)
2003
Vosko, Leah F. (2002) . “‘Decent Work’: The Shifting Role of the ILO and the Struggle for Global Social Justice.” Global Social Policy. April, 2: 1
2002
Griffin-Cohen, Marjorie, Laurell Ritchie, Michelle Swenarchuk and Leah F. Vosko. (2002). “Globalization: Some Implications and Strategies for Women.” Canadian Women’s Studies. 21/22 (4/1): 6-14.
2002
Vosko, Leah F. (2002). “The Pasts (and Futures) of Feminism and Political Economy in Canada: Reviving the Debate.” Studies in Political Economy. Summer: 55-85.
2002
Vosko, Leah F. and David Witwer. (2001). “‘Not a man’s union’: Women in the Teamsters Union During the 1940s and 1950s.” Journal of Women’s History. 13 (3): (Autumn): 169-92.
2001
Fudge, Judy and Leah F. Vosko. (2001). “By Whose Standards? Re-Regulating the Canadian Labour Market.” Economic and Industrial Democracy. 22 (3): 327-356.
2001
Fudge, Judy and Leah F. Vosko. (2001). “Gender, Segmentation and the Standard Employment Relationship in Canadian Labour Law and Policy.” Economic and Industrial Democracy. 22 (2): 271-310.
2001
Vosko, Leah F. (1998). “Regulating Precariousness?: The Temporary Employment Relationship Under the NAFTA and the EC Treaty.” Relations Industrielles/ Industrial Relations. 53 (1) March: 123-153.
1998
Luxton, Meg and Leah F. Vosko. (1998). “Where Women’s Efforts Count: The 1996 Census Campaign and ‘Family Politics’ in Canada.” Studies in Political Economy. 56 Summer: 49-82.
1998
Vosko, Leah F. (1998). “Workfare Temporaries: Workfare and the Rise of the Temporary Employment Relationship in Ontario.” Canadian Review of Social Policy. November: 55-79.
1998
Vosko, Leah F. (1997). “Legitimizing the Triangular Employment Relationship: Emerging International Labour Standards from a Comparative Perspective.” Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal. Fall: 43-77.
1997
Vosko, Leah F. (1993). “Fabric Friends and Clothing Foes: A Comparative Analysis of Textile and Apparel Industries under the NAFTA.” Review of Radical Political Economics. New York: Basil Blackwell Publishers, 25 (4): 45-58.
1993
Vosko, Leah F. (1993). "The Last Thread: Analysis of the Apparel Goods Provisions in the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Impact on Women." Ottawa: The Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives.
1993
Upcoming Courses
Term
Course Number
Section
Title
Type
Winter 2026
AP/POLS4125 3.0
M
Gender and Current Policy Issues
SEMR
Fall 2025
GS/POLS6775 3.0
A
The Political Economy of Work & Welfare
SEMR
Fall/Winter 2025
GS/POLS6700 6.0
A
Advanced Studies in Gender and Politics
SEMR
Leah F. Vosko, FRSC, is Distinguished Research Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics at York University. Her current research examines labour market insecurity/precarious employment, employment standards enforcement, international mobility programs, and deportability among workers labouring transnationally. She is the principal investigator of “Liberating Migrant Labour? International Mobility Programs in Settler-Colonial Context", a SSHRC Partnership Grant; "Canada's "New" International Mobility Program: Charting Differential Inclusion in the Transformation of Temporary Migrant Labour", a SSHRC Insight Grant; and, the Canada Labour Code-Data Analysis Infrastructure (CLC-DAI), an initiative involving a partnership with the Government of Canada’s Labour Program supported by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Research Fund; and four research and teaching databases – the Gender and Work Database (GWD), the Comparative Perspectives Database (CPD), the Employment Standards Database (ESD) and the CLC-DAI.
Her most recent authored books include Migrant Work By Another Name: Differential Inclusion and Precarity under Canada’s International Mobility Program (University of Toronto Press, 2025), Transnational Employment Strain in a Global Health Pandemic: Migrant Farmworkers in Canada (Vosko et al., Palgrave, 2023), Closing the Enforcement Gap: Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs (Vosko and the Closing the Enforcement Gap Research Group, University of Toronto Press, 2020), and Disrupting Deportability: Transnational Workers Organize (Cornell/ILR Press, 2019).
Degrees
PhD, York University
MA Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University
BA Political Studies, Trent University
Appointments
Faculty of Health
Professional Leadership
2023-Present. Advisor, Creating Sustainable Work: Tackling Precarious Employment for a Better Future, Stockholm, Sweden
2021-Present. Academic Advisor, Labour Market Non-Compliance in the UK, Director of Labour Market Enforcement & Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK
2020 – Present. Member, Expert Working Group on Migrant Worker Health Project
2019 – Present. Member, Expert Working Group on Temporary Labour Migration, International Labour Organization
Community Contributions
Gender and Work Database (GWD) (www.genderwork.ca/gwd)
The Gender and Work Database (GWD) is an interdisciplinary research tool, whose development I have overseen since 2001 with the support of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Research Fund. The product of a collaboration involving over fifty scholars, policy researchers, statisticians, and university librarians, it contains seven interactive research modules, each representing different slices or points of entry into the field of gender and work. Module topics include: health care; migration; precarious employment; technology; unions; and unpaid work. The GWD has three core components: interactive, multidimensional statistical tables created using custom runs from Canadian surveys, conceptualized by researchers; a searchable library containing papers, citations to papers, and links to relevant theoretical and empirical works; and, a thesaurus of concepts and terms designed to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and exchange. The GWD became fully operational in 2006 and revised and updated (to include data up to) in 2015. It is available to researchers and students tied to the seventy-two institutions involved in the Data Liberation Initiative between Statistics Canada and Canadian colleges and universities, public policy analysts pursuing research for non-commercial purposes in Canada and internationally, and researchers outside Canada participating in the project.
Comparative Perspectives on Precarious Employment Database (CPD) (www.genderwork.ca/cpd)
The Comparative Perspectives on Precarious Employment Database (CPD) was developed under my oversight since 2006 with the support of the Leadership Opportunities fund of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Research Fund. Launched in Spring 2015, the CPD brings together a library of secondary and primary resources, unique user-friendly statistical tables, and a thesaurus of concepts – all geared to understanding precarious employment in comparative industrial context. Drawing on thirty years of data from the EUROSTAT, the Household Income Dynamics in Australia Survey, various open-source US surveys and several Statistics Canada surveys, it includes customized original multidimensional tables that researchers may use to explore and compare the contours of precarious employment in thirty-three countries, including Australia, Canada, the United States, twenty-seven European Union (EU) member countries and three non-EU member countries. The CPD is designed both for researchers, inside and outside the academy (e.g., in the NGO and government sectors), as well as students. In addition to facilitating research, it can also be used as an interactive classroom teaching tool. Functioning much like an online book, the CPD’s introduction provides basic information on the conceptual approach to studying precarious employment in a comparative perspective adopted in the database, an explanation of its methodology, and an outline of the design principles behind the creation of harmonized variables used in statistical tables. These principles are further developed in three interactive research modules on forms of precarious employment, temporal and spatial dynamics, and health and social care.
Employment Standards Database (ESD) (https://www.genderwork.ca/esd/) (launched May 2025)
The Employment Standards Database (ESD) is an online tool, funded by the Leadership Opportunities Fund of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Research Fund, that brings together a library of resources on employment standards, unique user-friendly statistical tables, a reference guide for national definitions of employment standards, and a thesaurus of concepts. Though it was developed using the platform of the GWD and the CPD, the ESD is methodologically distinct from its precursors in that it draws together principally small-scale surveys developed by researchers rather than national and supranational social statistics agencies. It is also distinct as it includes data derived from a unique survey of access to employment standards and their enforcement in Ontario. Users of the ESD are able to view and analyze its multidimensional tables to explore and compare employment standards in Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Like its precursors, the ESD’s target audiences are both senior researchers and junior scholars. The database includes interactive research modules on wages & wage compensation, hours, complaints & enforcement, termination & severance, and non-wage benefits & compensation.
Canada Labour Code-Data Analysis Infrastructure (CLC-DAI)
The Canada Labour Code-Data Analysis Infrastructure (CLC-DAI) is an initiative under my direction of academics in partnership with the Government of Canada's Labour Program. Funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Research Fund, this infrastructure enabled researchers to transform a large-scale administrative database that the Labour Program maintains into a research database tool yielding new insights into labour standards compliance across Canada. Charged with enforcement of the Canada Labour Code (CLC), the Labour Program collects administrative data on its enforcement activities in a database known as the Labour Application 2000 (LA2K). The LA2K contains a near-complete census of complaints submitted under Part III of the CLC, which sets standards in areas such as minimum wages, hours of work and vacations for employees in the federal jurisdiction. The CLC-DAI provides the technical interface necessary to allow researchers to analyze administrative data to identify common patterns of labour standards (non)compliance, establish models to predict the most likely offenders and violation types, and to evaluate the impact of regulatory efforts.
Research Interests
Gender Issues, Labour, Migration, Political Economy, Citizenship ,
Indigenous Studies
Awards
Distinguished Research Professor, York University - 2024
Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Gender & Work (Tier 1), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - 2010-2024
CIRA (Canadian Industrial Relations Association) Gérard Dion Award for outstanding contribution to Industrial Relations - 2023
CAWLS (Canadian Association for Work & Labour Studies) Best Book Prize for Disrupting Deportability (2020) and for Closing the Enforcement Gap (2021) -
York University Research Leader, awarded jointly by the Offices of the President and the Vice-President Research and Innovation - 2021
York University Research Leader 2020, awarded jointly by the Offices of the President and the Vice-President Research and Innovation - 2020
Impact Award (Insight Category), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - 2019
York University Research Leader 2017, awarded jointly by the Offices of the President and the Vice-President Research and Innovation - 2017
Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Policy Research, Broadbent Institute - 2016
York University Research Leader 2016, awarded jointly by the Offices of the President and the Vice-President Research and Innovation - 2016
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - 2015
York University Research Leader 2014, awarded jointly by the Offices of the President and the Vice-President Research and Innovation - 2014
Visting Research Professor, Industrial and Labor Relations School, Cornell - 2011-2012
(Ontario) Premier’s Research Excellence Award - 2005-2010
Canada Research Chair in Feminist Political Economy (Tier 2), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - 2001-2010
Current Research Projects
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Partnership Grant, “Liberating Migrant Labour? International Mobility Programs in Settler-Colonial Contexts”
Summary:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Partnership Grant, “Liberating Migrant Labour? International Mobility Programs in Settler-Colonial Contexts,” Principal Investigator, April 2023-March 2030
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Principal Investigator
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Conditions of Work and Equality Department (Labour Migration Division), International Labour Organization, “Valuing the essential: Building resilience in the world of work.” Country study on Canadian Agriculture to inform WESO Thematic Report 2022-23, Principal Investigator
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Conditions of Work and Equality Department (Labour Migration Division), International Labour Organization, “Valuing the essential: Building resilience in the world of work.” Country study on Canadian Agriculture to inform WESO Thematic Report 2022-23, Principal Investigator
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Funded Role:
Principal Investigator
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Development Grant, “Divide and Colonize?: The "Core of Indianness" in Labour Law and Policy and its Effects”, Principal Investigator
Summary:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Development Grant, “Divide and Colonize?: The "Core of Indianness" in Labour Law and Policy and its Effects”, Principal Investigator
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Funded Role:
Principal Investigator
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Month: Jul Year: 2021
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Month: Jul Year: 2023
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Grant, “Canada's "New" International Mobility Program: Charting Differential Inclusion in the Transformation of Temporary Migrant Labour”, Principal Investigator, July 2021-July 2028
Summary:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Grant, “Canada's "New" International Mobility Program: Charting Differential Inclusion in the Transformation of Temporary Migrant Labour”, Principal Investigator, July 2021-July 2028
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Principal Investigator
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Month: Jul Year: 2028
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Partnership Engage Grant COVID-19 Special Initiative, “COVID-19: Pandemic Survey of Migrant Agricultural Workers in Ontario,” Collaborator, (Principal Investigator Jenna Hennebry), December 1, 2020-November 30, 2021
Summary:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Partnership Engage Grant COVID-19 Special Initiative, “COVID-19: Pandemic Survey of Migrant Agricultural Workers in Ontario,” Collaborator, (Principal Investigator Jenna Hennebry), December 1, 2020-November 30, 2021
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Collaborator
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Month: Dec Year: 2020
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Grant, “Examining Intersecting and Policy Factors Influencing Housing, Safety and Wellbeing of Migrant Agricultural Workers from 2017 - 2020: A Bi-provincial Analysis,” Collaborator (Principal Investigator Claudia Susana Caxaj), October 2020-October 2023
Summary:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Grant, “Examining Intersecting and Policy Factors Influencing Housing, Safety and Wellbeing of Migrant Agricultural Workers from 2017 - 2020: A Bi-provincial Analysis,” Collaborator (Principal Investigator Claudia Susana Caxaj), October 2020-October 2023
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Month: Oct Year: 2020
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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Impact Award (Insight Category), 2019
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Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Impact Award (Insight Category), 2019
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Canadian Foundation for Innovation, John Evans Leadership Opportunity Fund Grant, “Canada Labour Code Data Analysis Infrastructure (CLC-DAI),” Principal Investigator, January 2018
Summary:
Canadian Foundation for Innovation, John Evans Leadership Opportunity Fund Grant, “Canada Labour Code Data Analysis Infrastructure (CLC-DAI),” Principal Investigator, January 2018
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Month: Jan Year: 2018
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Month: Dec Year: 2020
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John Evans Leadership Opportunity Fund Grant
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Partnership Grant, “Closing the Enforcement Gap: Improving Employment Standards for Workers in Precarious Jobs,” Principal Investigator, March 2013
Summary:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Partnership Grant, “Closing the Enforcement Gap: Improving Employment Standards for Workers in Precarious Jobs,” Principal Investigator, March 2013
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Funded Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Partnership Grant,
Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Leadership Opportunity Fund Grant, “Global Employment Standards Database (GESD),” Principal Investigator, January 2012-December 2016
Summary:
Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Leadership Opportunity Fund Grant, “Global Employment Standards Database (GESD),” Principal Investigator, January 2012-December 2016
Project Type:
Funded Funders:
Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Leadership Opportunity Fund Grant
Law Commission of Ontario, Research grants to prepare two monographs for Vulnerable Workers Taskforce Co-Investigator with Mary Gellatly, Mark P. Thomas, Eric Tucker and Co-Investigator with Andrea Noack , Summer 2011
Summary:
Law Commission of Ontario, Research grants to prepare two monographs for Vulnerable Workers Taskforce Co-Investigator with Mary Gellatly, Mark P. Thomas, Eric Tucker and Co-Investigator with Andrea Noack , Summer 2011
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Funded Funders:
Law Commission of Ontario, Research grants
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant, “A New Approach to Labour Market Membership: Canadian Employment Policy in Focus,” Principal Investigator, Spring 2010-2013
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant, “A New Approach to Labour Market Membership: Canadian Employment Policy in Focus,” Principal Investigator, Spring 2010-2013
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
All Publications
Book Chapters
Publication
Year
Vosko, Leah F. (2025) “Challenging the Global Migration/Mobility Program Policy Construct: Labour Market (In)Security Under Canada’s “New” International Mobility Program” in Kuptch, Christiane and Fabiola Mieres (eds.) Temporary Labour Migration: Towards Social Justice. International Institute for Labour Studies: ILO, Geneva: 87-105.
2025
Noack, Andrea M., Eric Tucker and Leah F. Vosko (2025) “Precarious Employment in Labour Law and Policy” in Beland, Daniel, Mahon, Rianne, and Alison Smith (eds.). Oxford Handbook of Social Policy in Canada. New York: Oxford University Press.
2025
Noack, Andrea M., Leah F. Vosko, Eric Tucker and Rebecca Casey. (2024). “'Chapter 38: Surveys and Administrative Data” in Blackham, Alysia and Sean Conney(eds.), Handbook on Research Methods in Labour Law: Surveys and Administrative DataEdward Elgar Press: 382-398.
2024
Abu-Laban, Yasmeen, Kiera Ladner, Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, and Leah F. Vosko (2024). ““Refusal has been really important in my life”: Political Science Aunties Discuss Feministing in Political Science” in Cattapan, Alanna, Ethel Tungohan, Nisha Nath MacDonald, and Stephanie Paterson (eds.), Feministing in Political Science. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press: 315-330.
2024
Vosko, Leah F., Noack, Andrea M., King, Adam and Rebecca Hii. (2022). “Precarious Employment and the Security Premium in Canada’s Federally-Regulated Private Sector” in Peters, John and Don Wells (eds.), Canadian Labour Policy and Politics: Inequality and Alternatives . Ontario: Oxford University Press Canada.
2022
Marsden, Sarah, Eric Tucker and Leah F. Vosko. (2021). "The Trilemma of Canadian Migrant Worker Policy: Facilitating Employer Access while Protecting the Canadian Labour Market and Addressing Migrant Worker Exploitation?" in Dauvergne, Catherine (ed.), Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Migration . Edward Elgar Press.
2021
Thomas, Mark P. and Leah F. Vosko (2019). “Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium, ” in Thomas, Mark P., Leah F. Vosko, Carlo Fanelli and Olena Lyubchenko (eds.), Change and Continuity: Rethinking the New Canadian Political Economy. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2019
Vosko, Leah F. (2019). “Feminist Political Economy and Everyday Research on Work and Employment: The Case of the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap” in Thomas, Mark P., Leah F. Vosko, Carlo Fanelli and Olena Lyubchenko (eds.), Change and Continuity: Rethinking the New Canadian Political Economy. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2019
Vosko, Leah F., Grundy, John and Mark P. Thomas. (2017). “Beyond New Governance: Evaluating New Approaches to Employment Standards Enforcement in Liberal Market Economies,” in Colin Fenwick (ed.), Regulating for Equitable and Job-Rich Growth. Palgrave/International Labour Organization. International Institute for Labour Studies: ILO, Geneva.
2017
Latham, Robert, Leah F. Vosko, Valerie Preston and Melisa Breton. (2014). “Challenges to Liberating Temporariness: Imagining Alternatives to Permanence as a Pathway for Social Inclusion,” in Vosko, Leah F., Valerie Preston and Robert Latham (eds.), Liberating Temporariness?: Migration, Work and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity. McGill-Queen’s University Press: Montreal and Kingston. (shared first authorship between Latham, Vosko and Preston).
2014
Vosko, Leah F. (2012). “The Challenge of Expanding EI Coverage,” in Banting, Keith and Jon Medow (eds.), Making EI Work: Research from the Mowat Centre Employment Insurance Task Force. Toronto and Montreal: Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation, McGill-Queen’s University Press and Queen’s School of Policy Studies: 57-119
2012
Vosko, Leah F. (2011). “Out of the Shadows? The Non-Binding Multilateral Framework on Migration (2006) and Prospects for Forging Global Labour Market Membership through International Labour Regulation,” in Davidov, Guy and Brian Langille, (eds.), The Idea of Labour Law. London, Hart Publishing: 365-384
2011
Vosko, Leah F. (2011). “Precarious Employment and the Problem of SER-Centrism: Regulating for ‘Decent Work’.” in Lee, Sangheon and Deirdre McCann, (eds.), Regulating for Decent Work: New Directions in Labour Market Regulation. Geneva and London: ILO/Palgrave: 57-89.
2011
Vosko, Leah F. and Lisa F. Clark. (2009). “Gendered Precariousness and Social Reproduction in Canada,” in Vosko, Leah F., Martha MacDonald and Iain Campbell, (eds.), Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment. London and New York: Routledge Press: 26-42
2009
Vosko, Leah F., Martha MacDonald and Iain Campbell. (2009). “Introduction: Gender and the Concept of Precarious Employment,” in Vosko, Leah F., Martha MacDonald and Iain Campbell (eds.), Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment. London and New York: Routledge Press: 1-25.
2009
Vosko, Leah F. (2009). “Precarious Employment and the Challenges for Employment Policy,” in Cohen, Marjorie and Jane Pulkingham (eds.), Public Policy for Women in Canada: The State, Income Security, and Labour Market Issues. Toronto: University of Toronto Press: 374-395.
2009
Vosko, Leah F. (2008). “ILO Action on ‘The Scope of the Employment Relationship’: Lessons from Canada on Fostering Social Cohesion,” in O’Brien, Robert (ed.), Solidarity First: Canadian Workers and Social Cohesion. Vancouver: UBC Press: 169-189.
2008
Vosko, Leah F. (2008). “‘Lifelong Learning’ and Precarious Work: Challenging the Paradigm of Employability Security,” in Livingstone, David, Kiran Mirchandani and Peter Sawchuk (eds.), The Future of Lifelong Learning and Work: Critical Perspectives. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam: 157-170.
2008
Vosko, Leah F. (2007). “Gendered Labour Market Insecurities: Manifestations of Precarious
Employment in Different Locations,” in Shalla, Vivian and Wallace Clement (eds.), Work and Labour in Tumultuous Times: Critical Perspectives. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press: 50-95.
2007
Vosko, Leah F. (2007). “Representing Informal Economy Workers: Emerging Global Strategies and their Lessons for North American Unions,” in Cobble, Dorothy Sue (ed.), The Sex of Class: Women and America’s New Labour Movements. Ithaca: Cornell University Press: 272-290.
2007
Cranford, Cynthia J., Mary Gellatly, Deena Ladd and Leah F. Vosko. (2006). “Community Unionism and Labour Movement Renewal: Organizing for Fair Employment,” in Kumar, Pradeep and Christopher Schenk (eds.), Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, Garamond Press, and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: 237–249.
2006
Cranford, Cynthia J. and Leah F. Vosko. (2006). “Conceptualizing Precarious Employment: Mapping Wage Work across Social Location and Occupational Context,” in Vosko, Leah F. (ed.), Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press: 43-66.
2006
Vosko, Leah F. (2006). “Crisis Tendencies in Social Reproduction: The Case of Ontario’s Early Year’s Plan,” in Bezanson, Kate and Meg Luxton (eds.), Rethinking Social Reproduction: Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neo-liberalism. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press: 145-172.
2006
Vosko, Leah F. (2006). “Gender, Precarious Work and the International Labour Code: The Ghost in the Closet,” in Fudge, Judy and Rosemary Owens (eds.), Precarious Work, Women and the New Economy: The Challenge to Legal Norms. Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing: 53-75.
2006
Vosko, Leah F. and Nancy Zukewich. (2006). “Precarious by Choice? Gender and Self-Employment,” in Vosko, Leah F. (ed.), Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press: 67-89.
2006
Bernstein, Stephanie, Katherine Lippel, Eric Tucker and Leah F. Vosko. (2006). “Precarious Employment and the Law’s Flaws: Identifying Regulatory Failure and Securing Effective Protection for Workers,” in Vosko, Leah F. (ed.), Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press: 203-220.
2006
Cranford, Cynthia J., Tania Das Gupta, Deena Ladd and Leah F. Vosko. (2006). “Thinking through Community Unionism,” in Vosko, Leah F. (ed.), Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press: 353-377.
2006
Vosko, Leah F. (2006). “What Is to Be Done? Harnessing Knowledge to Mitigate Precarious Employment,” in Vosko, Leah F. (ed.), Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press: 379-388.
2006
Stanford, Jim and Leah F. Vosko. (2004). “Challenging the Market: The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income,” in Stanford, Jim and Leah F. Vosko (eds.), Challenging the Market: The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press: 3-33.
2004
Vosko, Leah F. (2004). “Standard-Setting at the ILO: The Case of Precarious Employment,” in Kirton, John and Michael J. Trebilcock (eds.), Hard Choices, Soft Law: Combining Trade, Environment, and Social Cohesion in Global Governance. New York: Ashgate: 139-157.
2004
Clement, Wallace and Leah F. Vosko. (2003). “Changing Canada: Political Economy As Transformation (Introduction).” in Clement, Wallace and Leah F. Vosko (eds.), Changing Canada: Political Economy as Transformation. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press: xi-xxxii.
2003
Vosko, Leah F. (2003). “Gender Differentiation and the Standard/Non-Standard Employment Distinction in Canada, 1945 to the Present” in Juteau, Danielle (ed.), Patterns and Processes of Social Differentiation: The Construction of Gender, Age, ‘Race/Ethnicity’ and Locality. University of Toronto Press/University of Montreal Press. French and English: 25-80.
2003
Fudge, Judy and Leah F. Vosko. (2003). “Gendered Paradoxes and the Rise of Contingent Work: Towards a Transformative Feminist Political Economy of the Labour Market.” in Clement, Wallace and Leah F. Vosko (eds.), Changing Canada: Political Economy as Transformation. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press: 183-213.
2003
Armstrong, Pat, Andrew, Caroline and Leah F. Vosko. (2003). “General Introduction,” in Andrew, Caroline, Armstrong, Pat, Armstrong, Hugh, Clement, Wallace and Leah F. Vosko (eds.), Studies in Political Economy: Developments in Feminism. Toronto: Women’s Press.
2003
Vosko, Leah F. (2003). “The Pasts (and Futures) of Feminist Political Economy in Canada: Reviving the Debate” in Andrew, Caroline, Armstrong, Pat, Armstrong, Hugh, Clement, Wallace and Leah F. Vosko (eds.), Studies in Political Economy: Developments in Feminism. Toronto: Women’s Press. *(modified and reprinted from SPE 2002 April)
2003
Vosko, Leah F. (2003). “‘Decent Work’: The Shifting Role of the ILO and the Struggle for Global Social Justice,” in Cohen, Marjorie and Stephen McBride (eds.), Global Turbulence: Social Activists and State Responses to Globalization. UK: Ashgate 174-191. *(chapter designed for classroom use based on article in Global Social Policy 2002 April).
2003
Vosko, Leah F. (2002). “Mandatory ‘Marriage’ or Obligatory Waged Work: Social Assistance and the Single Mother’s Complex Roles in Wisconsin and Ontario,” in Bashevkin, Sylvia. (ed.) Women’s Work is Never Done: Comparative Studies in Care-Giving, Employment, And Social Policy Reform. New York, Routledge: 165-199.
2002
Cobble, Dorothy Sue and Leah F. Vosko. (2000). “Historical Perspectives on Representing Workers in ‘Non-Standard’ Employment,” in F. Carre, M.A. Ferber, I. Golden and S.A. Herzenberg (eds.), Nonstandard Work: The Nature and Challenges of Changing Employment Relations. Champagne, IL: Industrial Relations Research Association: 291-312
2000
Vosko, Leah F. (1999). "Workfare Temporaries: Workfare and the Rise of the Temporary Employment Relationship in Ontario " in Broad, D. (ed.), Citizens or Consumers: Social Policy in a Market Society. Halifax and Vancouver: Fernwood Press: 55-79 (Reprinted from Canadian Review of Social Policy. November (1998).)
1999
Vosko, Leah F. (1996). "Irregular Workers, New Involuntary Social Exiles: Women and UI Reform." in Pulkingham, J. and G. Ternowetsky (eds.), Remaking Canadian Social Policy: Social Security in the Late 1990s. Toronto: Fernwood Press: 265-272.
1996
Vosko, Leah F. (1995). "Recreating Dependency: Women and UI Reform." in Drache, D.and A. Ranikin (eds.). Warm Heart, Cold Country. Toronto: Caledon Press: 213-231.
1995
Books
Publication
Year
Vosko, Leah F. (2025). Migrant Work By Another Name: Differential Inclusion and Precarity in Canada’s International Mobility Program. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
2025
Vosko, Leah F., Tanya Basok and Cynthia Spring. (2023). Transnational Employment Strain in a Global Health Pandemic: Migrant Farm Workers in Canada. London: Palgrave.
2023
Vosko, Leah F. et al. (2020). Closing the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap: Improving Protections for People in Precarious Jobs. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2020
Thomas, Mark, Leah F. Vosko, Carlo Fanelli and Olena Lyubchenko (eds.). (2019). Change and Continuity: Rethinking the New Canadian Political Economy. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2019
Vosko, Leah F. (2019). Disrupting Deportability: Transnational Workers Organize. Ithaca: Cornell University Press (ILR imprint).
2019
Vosko, Leah F., Valerie Preston and Robert Latham (eds.). (2014). Liberating Temporariness?: Migration, Work and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity. McGill-Queen’s University Press: Montreal and Kingston.
2014
Vosko, Leah F. (2010). Managing the Margins: Gender, Citizenship and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment. (Politics and Business Series) Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
2010
Vosko, Leah F., Martha MacDonald and Iain Campbell (eds.). (2009). Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment. London and New York: Routledge Press (Advances in Feminist Economics Series).
2009
Vosko, Leah F. (ed.). (2006). Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2006
Cranford, Cynthia, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker and Leah F. Vosko (eds.) .(2005). Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy, and Unions. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2005
Stanford, Jim and Leah F. Vosko. (eds). (2004). Challenging the Market: The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2004
Clement, Wallace and Leah F. Vosko (eds.). (2003). Changing Canada: The Political Economy of Transformation. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2003
Andrew, Caroline, Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, Wallace Clement and Leah F. Vosko (eds.). (2003). Studies in Political Economy: Developments in Feminism. Toronto: Women’s Press
2003
Vosko, Leah F. (2000). Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2000
Monographs
Publication
Year
Vosko, Leah F., Tanya Basok, Cynthia Spring, Guillermo Candiz and Glynis George. (2022). “COVID-19 Among Migrant Farmworkers in Canada: Employment Strain in a Transnational Context.” International Labour Organization, Geneva.
2022
Vosko, Leah F., Andrea M. Noack and Eric Tucker. (2016). “Employment Standards (‘ES’) Coverage and Enforcement: A scan of employment standards complaints and their resolution under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (‘ESA’),” Ontario Ministry of Labour Changing Workplaces Review.
2016
Vosko, Leah F., Andrea M. Noack and Mark P. Thomas. (2016). “Employment Standards (‘ES’) Coverage and Enforcement: How far does the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (‘ESA’) extend and what are the gaps in coverage?" Ontario Ministry of Labour Changing Workplaces Review.
2016
Vosko, Leah F., Eric Tucker, Mark P. Thomas and Mary Gellatly. (2012). “New Approaches to Enforcement and Compliance with Labour Regulatory Standards: The Case of Ontario, Canada,” Toronto: Law Commission of Ontario.
2012
Noack, Andrea M. and Leah F. Vosko. (2012). “Precarious Jobs in Ontario: Mapping Dimensions of Labour Market in Security by Workers’ Social Location and Context,” Toronto: Law Commission of Ontario.
2012
Vosko, Leah F. (2011). “The Challenge of Expanding EI Coverage: Charting Exclusions and Partial Exclusions on the Bases of Gender, Immigration Status, Age, and Place of Residence and Exploring Avenues for Inclusive Policy Redesign,” Toronto: Mowat Centre for Public Policy.
2011
Vosko, Leah F. (2004). Confronting the Norm: Gender and the International Regulation of Precarious Work. Ottawa: Law Commission of Canada. http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection/JL2-27-2004E.pdf
2004
Vosko, Leah F. (ed.). (2003). Just Labour: Forum on Precarious Employment. (September)
2003
Fudge, Judy, Eric Tucker and Leah F. Vosko. (2003). “The Legal Concept of Employment: Marginalizing Workers.” Ottawa: The Law Commission of Canada.
2003
Vosko, Leah F. (2002). Rethinking Feminization: Gendered Precariousness in the Canadian Labour Market and the Crisis in Social Reproduction,” a monograph prepared for the Annual Robart’s Lecture, John P. Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies.
2002
Tucker, Eric and Leah F. Vosko. (2021). “Designing a Paid Employment Leave Program for Short-Term Sickness and Caregiving Needs.” Institute for Research on Public Policy.
Journal Articles
Publication
Year
Vosko, Leah F., Adam D. King, Andrea M. Noack, Eric Tucker, Mark Thomas, Timothy Gadanidis and Rebecca Casey (2024). “When Education Isn’t Enough: The Compliance Model of Labour Standards Enforcement in Canada’s Federally Regulated Private Sector,” Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal 25(2): 279-319.
2024
Vosko, Leah F. (2023) “Probationary Precarity?: Post-Graduation Work Permitholders in Canada.” International Migration. 00, 1-19. http ://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13152
2023
King, Adam D.K., Olena Lyubchenko, Leah F. Vosko, Andrea M., Noack, Rebecca J. Hall.(2023). “The Origins and Application of “the Core of Indianness” in Indigenous Labour Relations: Returning to Four B Manufacturing v. United Garment Workers of America.” Labour Le Travail (92): 123-148.
2023
Basok, Tanya, Eric Tucker, Leah F. Vosko et al. (2023). “The ‘contract’ and its Discontents: Can it Address Protection Gaps for Migrant Agricultural Workers in Canada?” International Migration. 00, 1-14 https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13121
2023
Hall, Alan, John Grundy, Leah F. Vosko and Rebecca Hall (2023) “’Vulnerable Workers’ and Third Way Governance: Shifting Subjects of Regulation in Ontario’s and Ontario’s Employment Standards Enforcement Regime,” Journal of Law and Political Economy. (3) 450-483.
2023
Hall, Rebecca, Leah F. Vosko, and Veldon Coburn. (2022). “Access to Social Assistance and Identity: A Relational Reading of Shubenacadie Indian Barnd v. Canada.” Social Politics. (shared first authorship). 29(4): 1520–1543 https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac020
2022
King, Adam D.K., Veldon Coburn, Leah F. Vosko, Olena Lyubchenko, Rebecca J. Hall, Andrea M. Noack. (2022). "'Determining the “Core of Indianness:' A Feminist Political Economy of the Double Exclusion of Indigenous Caring Labours in NIL/TU,O v BCGEU." Aboriginal Policy Studies. 10, 1: 63-89.
2022
Caxaj, Susana ….. Leah F. Vosko et al. (2022). “Migrant agricultural workers’ deaths in Ontario from January 2020 to June 2021: a qualitative descriptive study,” International Journal for Equity in Health. 21, 98: 1-17.
2022
Vosko, Leah F. (2022). “Through the Back-door: How Australia and Canada use Working Holiday Programs to Fulfill Demands for Migrant Work via Cultural Exchange.” Journal of Industrial Relations. 65, 1: 88-111. http://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13121
2022
Vosko, Leah F., Tanya Basok, Cynthia Spring, Guillermo Candiz and Glynis George. (2022). “Understanding Migrant Farmworkers’ Health and Well-Being during the Global COVID-19 Pandemic: Towards a Transnational Conceptualization of Employment Strain” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19 (14) 8574. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148574
2022
Vosko, Leah F. and Cynthia Spring. (2021). “COVID-19 Outbreaks in Canada and the Crisis of Migrant Farmworkers’ Social Reproduction: Transnational Labour and the Need for Greater Accountability Among Receiving States” Journal of International Migration and Integration. 23(4): 1765-1791. (released in 2021 at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-021-00905-21)
2021
Marsden, Sarah, Eric Tucker and Leah F. Vosko. (2021). ““Flawed by Design?: A Case Study of Federal Enforcement of Migrant Workers’ Labour Rights in Canada.” Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal. 23, 1: 71-102.
2021
Vosko, Leah F., Andrea M. Noack, Adam D.K. King, Victoria Osten and Emily J. Clare. (2021). “A Model Regulator? Investigating Reactive v. Proactive Labour Standards Enforcement in Canada’s Federally-Regulated Private Sector.” International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations. 37, 2&3: 161-182.
2021
Easton, Mark, Andrea M. Noack and Leah F. Vosko. (2020). "Are Franchises More Likely to Violate Employment Standards than Other Types of Businesses? Evidence from Ontario, Canada." Economic and Labour Relations Review. 32, 1 (March): 1-26. DOI: 10.1177/1035304620961862
2020
Chartrand, Tyler and Leah F. Vosko. (2020). “Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker and International Mobility Programs: Charting Change and Continuity Among Source Countries.” International Migration. 59(1): 89-103.
2020
Boris, Eileen and Leah F. Vosko. (2020). "Point-Counterpoint: The Making of the Woman Worker". Labor: Studies in Working Class History. 174, 4 (December): 106-112.
2020
Vosko, Leah F. (2020). "Temporary Labour Migration by Any Other Name: Differential Inclusion
under Canada’s “New” International Mobility Regime." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. (Published online October). 48, 1: 129-152. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2020.1834839
2020
Tucker, Eric, Leah F. Vosko, and Sarah Marsden. (2020). "What We Owe Workers as a Matter of Common Humanity: Sickness and Caregiving Leaves and Pay in the Age of Pandemics." Osgoode Hall Law Journal. 57, 3 (Fall): 665-704. (Shared first authorship with Eric Tucker
2020
Andrea M. Noack, Alice Hoe and Leah F. Vosko. (2020). “Who to inspect? Using employee complaint data to inform workplace inspections in Ontario.” Canadian Public Policy. 46, 3 (September): 429-443.
2020
Tucker, Eric, Leah F. Vosko, Rebecca Casey, Mark P. Thomas, John Grundy and Andrea M. Noack (2019). “Carrying Little Sticks: Is there a ‘Deterrence Gap’ in Employment Standards Enforcement in Ontario, Canada?”International Journal of Labour Law and Industrial Relations. 35(1) 1-30.
2019
Vosko, Leah F., Eric Tucker and Rebecca M. Casey (2019). "Enforcing Employment Standards for Migrant Agricultural Workers in Ontario: Exposing Underexplored Layers of Vulnerability". International Journal of Labour Law and Industrial Relations. 35(2) 227-254.
2019
*Vosko, Leah F., Eric Tucker and Rebecca M. Casey. (2019). “Enforcing Employment Standards for Migrant Agricultural Workers in Ontario: Exposing Underexplored Layers of Vulnerability.” International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations. 35(2): 227-254.
2019
Thomas, Mark P., Leah F. Vosko, Eric Tucker, Mercedes Steedman, Andrea M. Noack, John Grundy, Mary Gellatly and Lisa Leinveer (2019). “The Employment Standards Enforcement Gap and the Overtime Pay Exemption in Ontario.” Labour/Le travail. Vol. 84, Fall.
2019
Thomas, Mark P., Leah F. Vosko, Eric Tucker, Mercedes Steedman, Andrea M. Noack, John Grundy, Mary Gellatly and Lisa Leinveer. (2019). “The Employment Standards Enforcement Gap and the Overtime Pay Exemption in Ontario.” Labour/Le Travail. 84(Fall): 25-51.
2019
Vosko, Leah F., Grundy, John, Casey, Rebecca and Noack, Andrea M. (2018) “A Tattered Quilt: Exemptions and Special Rules under Ontario’s Employment Standards Act (2000)”. Canadian Employment and Labour Law Journal. 21(2) 267-298.
2018
Vosko, Leah F. (2018). “Legal but Deportable: Institutionalized Deportability and the Limits of Collective Bargaining among Participants in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program.” ILR Review Special Issue on The Impact of Immigrant Legalization Initiatives: International Perspectives. DOI:10.1177/0019793918756055
2018
Casey, Rebecca, Eric Tucker, Leah F. Vosko and Andrea M. Noack. (2018). “Using tickets in employment standards inspections: Deterrence as effective enforcement in Ontario, Canada?” Economic and Industrial Relations Review. 29(2) 228-249.
2018
Vosko, Leah F., John Grundy, Mark Thomas, Eric Tucker, Andrea M. Noack, Rebecca Casey, Mary Gellatly and Jennifer Mussell. (2017). “The Compliance Model of Employment Standards Enforcement: An Evidence-based Assessment of its Efficacy in Instances of Wage Theft.” Industrial Relations Journal. 48 (3) 256-273.
2017
Grundy, John, Andrea M. Noack, Leah F. Vosko and Rebecca Hii. (2017). “The Enforcement of Ontario’s Employment Standards Act: The Impact of Reforms.” Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques (shared second authorship with Noack, 30%). 43(3) 190-201.
2017
Vosko, Leah F. (2016). “Blacklisting as a Modality of Deportability: Mexico’s Response to Circular Migrant Agricultural Workers’ Pursuit of Collective Bargaining Rights in British Columbia, Canada.”Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 42, 8: 1371-1387.
2016
Vosko, Leah F. (2016). “Blacklisting as a Modality of Deportability: Mexico’s Response to Circular Migrant Agricultural Workers’ Pursuit of Collective Bargaining Rights in British Columbia, Canada.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 42, 8: 1371-1387. (first published online November 20, 2015 as DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2015.1111134)
2016
Vosko, Leah F., John Grundy and Mark Thomas. (2016). “Challenging New Governance: Evaluating New Approaches to Employment Standards Enforcement in Common Law Jurisdictions.” Economic and Industrial Democracy. 37: 373-398 (first published online September 8, 2014 as doi:10.1177/0143831X14546237)
2016
Tucker, E., Alan Hall, Leah Vosko, Rebecca Hall and Elliot Siemiatycki. (2016). “Making or Administering Law and Policy? Discretion and Judgement in Employment Standards Enforcement in Ontario." Canadian Journal of Law & Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société. 31 (April), 1: 65-86 (Published online November 23, 2015 as DOI:10.1017/cls.2015.34)
2016
Mirchandani, Kiran, Leah F. Vosko, Urvashi Soni-Sinha, J. Adam Perry, Andrea M. Noack, Rebecca Hall and Mary Gellatly. (2016). “Methodological k/nots: Designing research on the enforcement of labor standards.” Journal of Mixed Methods Research. June 8, 2016: 1-15 (Published online as DOI: 10.1177/1558689816651793) (equal authorship)
2016
Noack, Andrea, Leah F. Vosko and John Grundy. (2015). “Measuring Employment Standards Violations, Evasion and Erosion using a Telephone Survey.” Industrial Relations/ Relations Industrielles. (equal first authorship with Noack), 70, 1: 86-109.
2015
Vosko, Leah F. and Mark Thomas. (2014). “Confronting the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap: Exploring the Potential of Union Engagement in Employment Law in Ontario, Canada.” Journal of Industrial Relations. 56: 631-652.
2014
Vosko, Leah F. (2014). “Tenuously Unionized: Temporary Migrant Workers and the Limits of Formal Mechanisms Designed to Promote Collective Bargaining in British Columbia, Canada.” Industrial Law Journal. 43(4) December: 451-84.
2014
Vosko, Leah F. (2013). “‘Rights without Remedies’: Enforcing Employment Standards in Ontario by Maximizing Voice among Workers in Precarious Jobs.” Osgoode Hall Law Journal. 50 (4): 845-873.
2013
Vosko, Leah F. (2013). “National Sovereignty and Transnational Labour: the case of Mexican seasonal agricultural workers in British Columbia, Canada." Industrial Relations Journal. 56(44): 514–532
2013
Rajkumar, Deepa, Laurel Berkowitz, Leah F. Vosko, Valerie Preston, and Robert Latham. (2012). “At the Temporary-Permanent Divide: How Canada Produces Temporariness and Makes Citizens through its Security, Work, and Settlement Policies.” Citizenship Studies. 16 (3-4): 483-510. (equal authorship)
2012
Gellatly, Mary, John Grundy, Kiran Mirchandani, Adam Perry, Mark Thomas and Leah F. Vosko. (2011). “‘Modernizing’ Employment Standards? Administrative Efficiency, Market Regulation, and the Production of the Illegitimate Claimant in Ontario, Canada.” Economic and Labour Relations Review. 22 (2) (July): 81-106.
2011
Vosko, Leah F. (2010). “A New Approach to Regulating Temporary Agency Work in Ontario or Back to the Future?” Industrial Relations/ Relations Industrielles. 65, 4 (December): 632-653. (This article has been reprinted and translated into Swedish. It appears as: Vosko, Leah F. (2013). “Ett nytt synsätt på reglering av arbete vid bemanningsföretag i Ontario,
ellerTillbaka till framtiden?” Arbetarhistoria. 3-4: 16-26.)
2010
Vosko, Leah F. (2009). “Less than Adequate: Regulating Temporary Agency Work in the EU in the Face of an Internal Market in Services.” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society. (special issue on “Transforming Work”). Electronic copy: April, 1-17; Hard copy 2, 3, November.
2009
Fuller, Sylvia and Leah F. Vosko. (2008). “Temporary Employment and Social Inequality in Canada: Exploring Intersections of Gender, Race and Migration.” Social Indicators Research. 88 (1) August: 31-50.
2008
Vosko, Leah F. (2008). “Temporary Work in Transnational Labour Regulation: SER Centrism and the Risk of Exacerbating Gendered Precariousness.” Social Indicators Research. 88 (1) August: 131-145.
2008
Vosko, Leah. F. (2007). “Precarious Part-Time Work in Australia and in Transnational Labour Regulation: The Gendered Limits of SER-Centrism.” Labour and Industry. 17 (3) April: 99-125.
2007
Fudge, Judy, Eric Tucker, and Leah F. Vosko. (2003). “Changing Boundaries in Employment: Developing a New Platform for Labour Law.” Canada Labour and Employment Law Journal. 10 (3): 361-39
2003
Fudge, Judy, Tucker, Eric and Leah F. Vosko. (2003) . “Employee or Independent Contractor? Charting the Legal Significance of the Distinction in Canada.” Canadian Journal of Labour and Employment Law. 10 (2): 193-230.
2003
Cranford, Cynthia, Vosko, Leah F. and Nancy Zukewich. (2003) . “Precarious Employment in the Canadian Labour Market: A Statistical Portrait.” Just Labour. (September)
2003
Vosko, Leah F., Nancy Zukewick and Cynthia Cranford. (2003). “Precarious Jobs: A New Typology of Employment.” Perspectives on Labour and Income. Ottawa: Statistics Canada: October: 16-26.
2003
Cranford, Cynthia, Vosko, Leah F. and Nancy Zukewich. (2003). “The Gender of Precariousness in the Canadian Labour Force.” Industrial Relations. (September)
2003
Vosko, Leah F. (2002) . “‘Decent Work’: The Shifting Role of the ILO and the Struggle for Global Social Justice.” Global Social Policy. April, 2: 1
2002
Griffin-Cohen, Marjorie, Laurell Ritchie, Michelle Swenarchuk and Leah F. Vosko. (2002). “Globalization: Some Implications and Strategies for Women.” Canadian Women’s Studies. 21/22 (4/1): 6-14.
2002
Vosko, Leah F. (2002). “The Pasts (and Futures) of Feminism and Political Economy in Canada: Reviving the Debate.” Studies in Political Economy. Summer: 55-85.
2002
Vosko, Leah F. and David Witwer. (2001). “‘Not a man’s union’: Women in the Teamsters Union During the 1940s and 1950s.” Journal of Women’s History. 13 (3): (Autumn): 169-92.
2001
Fudge, Judy and Leah F. Vosko. (2001). “By Whose Standards? Re-Regulating the Canadian Labour Market.” Economic and Industrial Democracy. 22 (3): 327-356.
2001
Fudge, Judy and Leah F. Vosko. (2001). “Gender, Segmentation and the Standard Employment Relationship in Canadian Labour Law and Policy.” Economic and Industrial Democracy. 22 (2): 271-310.
2001
Vosko, Leah F. (1998). “Regulating Precariousness?: The Temporary Employment Relationship Under the NAFTA and the EC Treaty.” Relations Industrielles/ Industrial Relations. 53 (1) March: 123-153.
1998
Luxton, Meg and Leah F. Vosko. (1998). “Where Women’s Efforts Count: The 1996 Census Campaign and ‘Family Politics’ in Canada.” Studies in Political Economy. 56 Summer: 49-82.
1998
Vosko, Leah F. (1998). “Workfare Temporaries: Workfare and the Rise of the Temporary Employment Relationship in Ontario.” Canadian Review of Social Policy. November: 55-79.
1998
Vosko, Leah F. (1997). “Legitimizing the Triangular Employment Relationship: Emerging International Labour Standards from a Comparative Perspective.” Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal. Fall: 43-77.
1997
Vosko, Leah F. (1993). “Fabric Friends and Clothing Foes: A Comparative Analysis of Textile and Apparel Industries under the NAFTA.” Review of Radical Political Economics. New York: Basil Blackwell Publishers, 25 (4): 45-58.
1993
Vosko, Leah F. (1993). "The Last Thread: Analysis of the Apparel Goods Provisions in the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Impact on Women." Ottawa: The Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives.
