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Tailored Collective Bargaining: The Future of North American Industrial Relations?
This lecture examines the growing use of sector-specific collective bargaining frameworks for workers in non-standard employment, rather than extending traditional labour laws to cover them. Through a comparison of models across North America, it explores their effectiveness in addressing precarious work and employment grey zones, arguing that meaningful reform requires sustained worker mobilization while guarding against a two-tier system that excludes less-organized workers.

Laura Dehaibi is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Relations at Laval University, where she teaches labour law. She is a co-researcher at the Inter-University Research Centre on Globalization and Labour. Her research focuses on the spatial dimensions of marginalization in the workplace and how these are addressed in labour regulations. Her publications include work on the protection of workers’ freedom of association in agriculture and in the digital platform economy.  She is particularly interested in grassroots collective organization within marginalized communities, the creation of informal norms at work, and issues of transnational solidarity from a North-South perspective. She is the author of the book Property, Power and Human Rights (Edward Elgar, 2024), in which she explores the social dimensions of the human right to property and the relationship between social justice and territory.