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Carla Lipsig-Mummé

Professor of Work and Labour Studies, York University, Canada

Carla Lipsig-Mumme (PhD, Sociology, Universite de Montreal) is professor of Work and Labour Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada, where she is principal investigator for two research programmes on work and climate change,
funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She has been research professor of political and social inquiry at Monash University, professor of sociology at Deakin University, and national councillor of the NTEU.

Carla's most recent books are Climate@Work (2013), and, with Stephen McBride, Work in a Warming World (2015). She is general editor of Routledge UK's new series, Routledge Studies in Climate, Work and Society.

Experience

  • 1990–present
    Professor of Work and Labour Studies, York University, Canada

Education

  •  
    PhD, Universite de Montreal

Publications

  • 2015
    Work in a Warming World, McGill-Queens Press
  • 2013
    Climate@Work, Fernwood Books

Grants and Contracts

  • 2014
    Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces to Respond to Climate Change
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • 2009
    Work in a Warming World
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada