Jenny Carson
Dr. Jenny Carson studies 20th-century American women���s labour history, focusing on the history of service work and women���s organizing in the United States. Her recently published book with the University of Illinois Press, A Matter of Moral Justice: Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice (2021) , examines African American and radical women���s organizing in the laundry industry in the 20th century. Her work has appeared in numerous American and Canadian journals including: Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, and Labor Studies Journal. Her 2010 article ������Taking on Corporate Bullies���: Cintas, Laundry Workers, and Organizing in the 1930s and 21st Century,��� published in Labor Studies Journal, won that journal���s Best Article of the Year Prize. Dr. Carson participated in the five-year SSHRC-funded Poverty and Employment Precarity in Southern Ontario project, which investigated how low-waged workers and their allies have responded collectively to the growth of precarious employment in the 21st century. In 2010, Dr. Carson won the Dean���s Teaching Award for excellence in teaching. She also is a member of the graduate faculty.