This session delves into the complex and layered geographies of work, with an emphasis on historical, racialized, neurodivergent, and gendered labour experiences. Through diverse case studies—from early 20th-century Toronto garment workers to contemporary neurodivergent and queer workers—presenters explore how precarious labour, social reproduction, and systemic exclusions are produced and resisted across time and space. Themes include municipal care infrastructure, colonial migration logics, community-based labour, and the contradictions of workplace inclusion under neoliberalism.

• 1:00 PM
  Home as Sweatshop: Neurasthenic Women Garment Workers in Toronto, circa 1900
  Phillip Gordon Mackintosh, Brock University

• 1:15 PM
  Caring Beyond Mandate: The Contribution of Community Organizations
  Elizabeth Nelson, Queen’s University

• 1:30 PM
  “The way I was living was really unsustainable for me, even though it seemed very normal for everyone else”: Neurodivergent Labour Geographies, Social Reproduction and Precarious Work beyond the Workplace
  Grace Pawliw-Fry, York University

• 1:45 PM
  Debt and Indenture: The “Rogue Recruiter” and the Colonial Racial Logic of Indian Migration
  Michelle Buckley, University of Toronto Scarborough

• 2:00 PM
  Capital Contradictions in the Age of Incorporation: Queer and Trans Materialism at Work
  Natalie Oswin, University of Toronto Scarborough