Alicia Massie
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841881 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alicia Massie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alicia |
| FAMILY NAME | Massie |
| SIGNATURE | MASSIE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
When we fight, we win”
Migrant domestic workers have formed the backbone of Canada’s care economy, filling gaps in care and performing this undervalued work since the inception of the settler-colonial state. Premilla Nad...
The Gig Economy of Care
Background: This study critically analyzes the impact of platform capitalism on elder care in British Columbia, focusing on Tuktu, an app-based tech startup that mediates care services through digital platforms. Analysis: Using feminist and intersectional theory, we explore how Tuktu’s business model commodifies care and exploits care workers by misclassifying them as independent contractors and stripping them of labour rights and protections. Co…
Artificial Intelligence and Labour
We are in an important technological moment in history, where experts in academia, research institutes, and non-governmental organizations posit that developments in artificial intelligence (ai) will lead to widespread disruptions in the labour market. This article addresses this claim by asking if organized labour sees ai as an equally imminent threat. Moreover, it asks how labour is preparing to challenge the power of capital as employers lever…
Working Women Unite”
In this paper, we present and explore the case of the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU), an independent, directly democratic, and feminist labor union at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Operating continuously since the 1970s, we argue that TSSU is an important example of the ways in which gender and class have intersected within the history of the Canadian labor movement, and a fascinating case of a longstanding socialist f…
Critical Discourse Studies and Technology
Artificial Intelligence and Labour
We are in an important technological moment in history, where experts in academia, research institutes, and non-governmental organizations posit that developments in artificial intelligence (ai) will lead to widespread disruptions in the labour market. This article addresses this claim by asking if organized labour sees ai as an equally imminent threat. Moreover, it asks how labour is preparing to challenge the power of capital as employers lever…
Critical Discourse Studies and Technology
Working Women Unite”
In this paper, we present and explore the case of the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU), an independent, directly democratic, and feminist labor union at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Operating continuously since the 1970s, we argue that TSSU is an important example of the ways in which gender and class have intersected within the history of the Canadian labor movement, and a fascinating case of a longstanding socialist f…
Artificial Intelligence and Labour
We are in an important technological moment in history, where experts in academia, research institutes, and non-governmental organizations posit that developments in artificial intelligence (ai) will lead to widespread disruptions in the labour market. This article addresses this claim by asking if organized labour sees ai as an equally imminent threat. Moreover, it asks how labour is preparing to challenge the power of capital as employers lever…
The Gig Economy of Care
Background: This study critically analyzes the impact of platform capitalism on elder care in British Columbia, focusing on Tuktu, an app-based tech startup that mediates care services through digital platforms. Analysis: Using feminist and intersectional theory, we explore how Tuktu’s business model commodifies care and exploits care workers by misclassifying them as independent contractors and stripping them of labour rights and protections. Co…
When we fight, we win”
Migrant domestic workers have formed the backbone of Canada’s care economy, filling gaps in care and performing this undervalued work since the inception of the settler-colonial state. Premilla Nad...
Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Aged care (1 works) · Anarchism and Radical Politics (1 works) · Art (1 works)