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Leah F. Vosko

Leah F. Vosko

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Political Science

D-Index
26
Citations
4865
World Ranking
1505
National Ranking
51

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Leah F. Vosko is affiliated with York University in Canada and has a research focus largely situated within social sciences and health professions. Their work spans several subfields, including sociology and political science, general health professions, public administration, economics and econometrics, and strategy and management.

Their research contributions cover a range of topics centered on employment and welfare studies, migration and labor dynamics, labor movements and unions, migration, ethnicity, and economy, as well as the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and Canadian identity and history.

Frequent co-authors in Vosko's published work include Cynthia Spring, Tanya Basok, Andie Noack, Eric Tucker, and Sarah Marsden.

Vosko has published multiple papers in notable journals. Recent examples include:

  • "Temporary labour migration by any other name: differential inclusion under Canada's 'new' international mobility regime" (2020), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • "COVID-19 Outbreaks in Canada and the Crisis of Migrant Farmworkers' Social Reproduction: Transnational Labour and the Need for Greater Accountability Among Receiving States" (2021), Journal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de l integration et de la migration internationale
  • "Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker and International Mobility Programs: Charting Change and Continuity Among Source Countries" (2020), International Migration
  • "Migrant agricultural workers' deaths in Ontario from January 2020 to June 2021: a qualitative descriptive study" (2022), International Journal for Equity in Health
  • "Understanding Migrant Farmworkers' Health and Well-Being during the Global COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada: Toward a Transnational Conceptualization of Employment Strain" (2022), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Vosko's work has appeared frequently in the following publication venues:

  • International Migration
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • Journal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de l integration et de la migration internationale
  • International Journal for Equity in Health

In addition to journal articles, Vosko has contributed to book publications with multiple publishers. These include:

  • University of Toronto Press: Closing the Enforcement Gap (2020)
  • ILO eBooks: COVID-19 among migrant farmworkers in Canada (2022)
  • Springer International Publishing: Transnational Employment Strain in a Global Health Pandemic (2023)

In recognition of contributions to social sciences, Vosko was awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2015 by the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Managing the Margins: Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment

    Leah F. Vosko

  • Precarious employment : understanding labour market insecurity in Canada

    Leah F. Vosko

  • Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship

    Leah Faith Vosko

  • PRECARIOUS EMPLOYMENT IN THE CANADIAN LABOUR MARKET: A STATISTICAL PORTRAIT

    Cynthia J. Cranford;Leah F. Vosko

  • The Gender of Precarious Employment in Canada

    Cynthia J. Cranford;Leah F. Vosko;Nancy Zukewich

  • Precarious jobs: A new typology of employment

    Leah F. Vosko;Nancy Zukewich;Cynthia Cranford

  • Temporary Employment and Social Inequality in Canada: Exploring Intersections of Gender, Race and Immigration Status

    Sylvia Fuller;Leah F. Vosko

  • `Decent Work' The Shifting Role of the ILO and the Struggle for Global Social Justice

    Leah F. Vosko

  • At the temporary–permanent divide: how Canada produces temporariness and makes citizens through its security, work, and settlement policies

    Deepa Rajkumar;Laurel Berkowitz;Leah F. Vosko;Valerie Preston

  • Gender, Segmentation and the Standard Employment Relationship in Canadian Labour Law, Legislation and Policy:

    Judy Fudge;Leah F. Vosko

  • Introduction: Gender and the concept of precarious employment

    Leah F. Vosko;Martha Macdonald;Iain Campbell

  • The Legal Concept of Employment: Marginalizing Workers

    Judy Fudge;Eric Tucker;Leah Vosko

  • The Pasts (and Futures) of Feminist Political Economy in Canada: Reviving the Debate

    Leah F. Vosko

  • By Whose Standards? Reregulating the Canadian Labour Market:

    Judy Fudge;Leah F. Vosko

  • Managing the Margins

    Leah F. Vosko

  • Precarious Employment and the Law’s Flaws: Identifying Regulatory Failure and Securing Effective Protection for Workers

    Eric M. Tucker;Stephanie Bernstein;Katherine Lippel;Leah Vosko

  • Changing Canada: Political Economy as Transformation

    Wallace Clement;Leah F. Vosko

  • Legal but Deportable: Institutionalized Deportability and the Limits of Collective Bargaining among Participants in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program:

    Leah F. Vosko

  • Blacklisting as a modality of deportability: Mexico's response to circular migrant agricultural workers' pursuit of collective bargaining rights in British Columbia, Canada

    Leah F. Vosko

  • Temporary labour migration by any other name: differential inclusion under Canada’s ‘new' international mobility regime

    Leah F. Vosko

  • COVID-19 Outbreaks in Canada and the Crisis of Migrant Farmworkers’ Social Reproduction: Transnational Labour and the Need for Greater Accountability Among Receiving States

    Leah F. Vosko;Cynthia Spring

  • Temporary Work in Transnational Labor Regulation : SER-Centrism and the Risk of Exacerbating Gendered Precariousness

    Leah F. Vosko

  • Enforcing Employment Standards for Temporary Migrant Agricultural Workers in Ontario, Canada: Exposing Underexplored Layers of Vulnerability

    Leah F. Vosko;Eric Tucker;Rebecca Casey

  • Challenging the Market: The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income

    Jim Stanford;Leah F. Vosko

  • Confronting the employment standards enforcement gap: Exploring the potential for union engagement with employment law in Ontario, Canada

    Leah F Vosko;Mark Thomas

  • Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker and International Mobility Programs: Charting Change and Continuity Among Source Countries

    Tyler Chartrand;Leah F. Vosko

  • Less than adequate: regulating temporary agency work in the EU in the face of an internal market in services

    Leah F. Vosko

  • A New Approach to Regulating Temporary Agency Work in Ontario or Back to the Future

    Leah F. Vosko

  • National sovereignty and transnational labour: the case of Mexican seasonal agricultural workers in British Columbia, Canada†

    Leah F. Vosko

  • Precarious Part-Time Work in Australia and in Transnational Labour Regulation: The Gendered Limits of SER-Centrism

    Leah F. Vosko

  • Globalization: Some Implications and Strategies for Women

    Marjorie Griffin Cohen;Laurell Ritchie;Michelle Swenarchuk;Leah Vosko

Frequent Co-Authors

Judy Fudge
Judy Fudge McMaster University

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