这个独特的研究生课程的主要目的是向学生介绍与在世界各地以及加拿大的当代社会工作有关的各种理论方法和实践政策辩论。课程侧重于广泛的工作活动，从在初级，工业和服务场所中的有偿工作到在家庭和其他地方进行的有偿和无偿工作。无论工作重点如何，都应将工作作为生活经验的一部分进行研究，其中包括家庭生活，社区关系，种族主义，性别歧视，同性恋恐惧症和能力主义，政治和国家监管的影响。毕业后，我们的学生已做好充分准备，可以从事相关领域的工作或攻读博士学位课程。我们特别注意一些毕业生在公共部门专业职位和工会运动中的位置。毕业生已
Labour Studies is concerned with our many and changing worlds of work. Drawing from ideas and theories from sociology, political science, economics, history, social work, geography and more. Labour Studies also studies labour and social justice movements to assess their demands for workplace, social and political change. This is because students of Labour Studies are not content just to interpret the world, they want to change it<br>The prime objective of this unique program is to introduce students to a variety of theoretical approaches and practical policy debates related to work and workers, both globally, and in Canada. Courses focus on a broad range of topics such as: union organizing, globalization and migration, labour geography, worker health and safety, and gender, racialization and work. The MA in Labour Studies approaches work broadly, paying attention to informal work, unpaid work in the home, as well as formal waged work. Regardless of the particular focus, work is studied as one component of life experience, and as influenced by technological change, community relations, the effects of racism, sexism, homophobia, and ableism, politics, and state regulation.<br><br>Upon graduation, our students are well-prepared either to take up employment in related fields or to pursue further studies in PhD programs. We take particular note of the placement of a number of our graduates in public sector professional positions and in the trade union movement. MA graduates have found employment working in a wide range of positions including:<br><br>trade union researchers/educators<br>mediators<br>teachers and professors<br>managers and administrators<br>human resource specialists<br>policy analysts<br>economic development officers