Author: Pat Armstrong

  • Start Early, Stay Late: Planning for Care /w Pat and Hugh Armstrong

    The lines between for-profit and not have become increasingly blurred by various neoliberal strategies. One of these involves non-profit and state-owned homes contracting out services to for-profit firms as – … Watch video »

    Public Goods  •  July 4, 2021  •  Hugh Armstrong and Pat Armstrong

  • The Care Economy Statement

    If COVID-19 has taught us nothing else, it is that we need a new approach to caring for each other in this country. And there is no better time to … Keep reading »

    Public Goods  •  April 22, 2021  •  Pat Armstrong, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Laurell Ritchie, Leah Vosko and Armine Yalnizyan

  • Ontario’s Care Crisis /w Pat Armstrong

    We continue our discussion of the crisis in long-term care homes in Ontario. This time we are joined by Dr. Pat Armstrong, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. Listen to audio »

    Public Goods  •  February 21, 2021  •  Pat Armstrong

  • Viruses and Care

    It is not surprising that the first recorded deaths from COVID-19 were in nursing homes. But the contributing factors cannot be attributed solely to age. Long-term residential care shares with … Keep reading »

    Public Goods  •  April 1, 2020  •  Pat Armstrong

  • States and Markets: The Making of Globalization

    Session 5 of the Transcending Pessimism, Reimagining Democracy conference: States and Markets: The Making of Globalization. Presentations by Dick Bryan, Ana Garcia, Sean Starrs and Pat Armstrong. Recorded in Toronto, 7 October 2017. Watch video »

    Economy, Theory  •  December 30, 2017  •  Dick Bryan, Ana Garcia, Sean Starrs and Pat Armstrong

  • Canadian Health Care: Privatization and Gendered Labour

    Priscillia Lefebvre is a collaborative Ph.D. student at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology/Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). Pat Armstrong is Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies … Keep reading »

    Feminism, Public Goods  •  February 6, 2012  •  Pat Armstrong

  • Launch of Socialist Register 2010: Morbid Symptoms, Health Under Capitalism

    Part 1: A panel discussion with contributing authors: Colin Leys (Health, health care and capitalism), Pat Armstrong (Contradictions at work: struggles for control in Canadian health care), Roddy Loepky (Certain wealth: Accumulation in the health industry). Part 2: Commentators: Dr Andy Coates (Physicians for a National Health Program, Co-Chair, Single Payer New York) and Natalie (Mehra, Director, Ontario Health Coalition). Watch video »

    Public Goods  •  January 27, 2010  •  Greg Albo, Colin Leys, Pat Armstrong and Natalie Mehra

  • Whose Healthcare?

    Challenging the Corporate Struggle to Rule Our System Hugh Armstrong, et al. Most Canadians reject a private health care system that is driven by the accumulation of profit, that limits people’s access … Keep reading »

    Public Goods  •  December 5, 2005  •  Sam Gindin, Hugh Armstrong and Pat Armstrong