- Location
- Webinars will be held via Zoom. Webinar details will be sent to all registered participants via EventBrite.
- Series/Type
- DLSPH Event, Seminar
- Dates
- October 28, 2022 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Links
Title: Working and hurting in Little Bangladesh: Precarious work, health, and return to work
This talk will present the findings from a community-based research project conducted in partnership with the South Asian Women’s Rights Organization. It investigated, through qualitative interviews and focus group discussions with workers and other key informants, experiences of precarious work, health, and return to work among members of the Toronto Bangladeshi community. Specifically, we describe how health and safety prevention and compensation systems inadequately consider the reality of precarious work, with devastating consequences for the health and well-being of workers, their families and communities.
Presenter: Dr. Stephanie Premji
Dr. Stephanie Premji is an associate professor at the School of Labour Studies at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Her research focuses on occupational health and safety at the intersection of gender, racialization, immigration, and disability with an emphasis on systemic root causes of illness and injury. Dr. Premji edited the collection “Sick and Tired: Health and Safety Inequalities” published by Fernwood Publishing (2018). She is currently co-leading a large SSHRC-CIHR funded partnership project that explores, through case studies, return to work policies and practices in contexts of precarious employment.