Jennifer Chun, University of Toronto

Research

protest cultures social movements popular politics workers

Latest funding

Protesting publics in South Korea
SSHRC · 2015 · Principal investigator
$186,109
Closing the enforcement gap: improving employment standards protections for people in precarious jobs
SSHRC · 2012 · Co-investigator
$2,001,351

All 2 grants and awards

Protesting publics in South Korea

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Chun, Jennifer

Keywords: protest cultures; social movements; popular politics; workers

$186,109

Closing the enforcement gap: improving employment standards protections for people in precarious jobs

Co-investigatorSSHRC2012Partnership Grants

Keywords: employment standards; enforcement; precarious employment; work; gender issues; immigration; public policy; labour rights

$2,001,351

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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