States, Markets and Work-Life Balance: Canadian Employment and Labour Policies
AP/SOSC 3982 (3.0)
WLB Annotated Bibliography Assignment Due February 6, 2020
Your work-life balance annotated bibliography and analysis should be a critical and
analytical review of 10 sources, building on the literature, lectures and the key concepts
of the course. Sources can include: books; journal articles; government reports or
industry studies and should be from the years 2010-2020. Ideally, this annotated
bibliography will help you build towards our next assignment: the time-use analysis
due March 12.
You should include the following sections: introduction; theoretical framework;
method; results (this is where you would describe your 10 sources); analysis;
conclusion; references. Your annotated bibliography should be approximately 15 pages
double spaced.
Your annotated bibliography can be an evaluation of one of the 5 following topics (these
are broad topics and are intended to guide you can choose another topic if you like):
Innovative managerial approaches to WLB
Labour movement strategies to bargain for WLB
Precarious employment and WLB
Social reproduction and WLB
Gender and WLB
Grading:
You express unique insights and use your own words to explain concepts. ( / 5)
You integrate course concepts, materials, and readings. ( / 5)
Your paper has minimal grammatical and spelling errors. ( / 5)
You do not rely on unnecessary long quotes and/or vague statements. ( / 5)
You provide a critical review and analysis of the sources you have selected. ( /5)
Your annotated bibliography is formatted in either APA or MLA and can include:
books; journal articles; government reports; industry studies; website materials.
( /5)
GRADE: / 30
This is not a traditional Annotated bib. This needs to have an intro, conclusion and thesis statement. as well as:
2 paragraphs on each source used (traditional annotated style)
Analysis – 1 page
3 main findings in literature review that surfaces the main themes and points of your thesis.
3-5 paragraph
Conclusion – 1 paragraph
MY TOPIC: Precarious retail work – work life balance theme –
Themes I want to use: Alienation – Marxist
The readings on job strain-
Mention:
Employment strain model
And: new analysis of strain of employment relationship.
Marx- alienation and exploitation – Communist manifesto or Das Kapital can also be referenced.
