Leah F. Vosko

Leah F. Vosko, FRSC, is Professor and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Gender & Work at York University. Her research examines employment standards enforcement and deportability among workers labouring transnationally. She is currently principal investigator of Closing the Enforcement Gap: Improving Protections for People in Precarious Jobs, a SSHRC Partnership Grant concerned with employment standards enforcement; the Canada Labour Code-Data Analysis Infrastructure (CLC-DAI), an initiative involving a partnership with the Government of Canada’s Labour Program, funded 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