Camille Robert

Camille Robert, Les travailleuses de l’éducation et de la santé face au tournant néolibéral de l’État québécois (1980-1990). Université du Québec à Montréal, 2025.

Camille Robert’s dissertation, Les travailleuses de l’éducation et de la santé face au tournant néolibéral de l’État québécois (1980-1990), is an inspired and insightful study of an often-overlooked decade in studies of Quebec labour history. Her examination of the experiences of largely female public sector workers organizing to oppose the neo-liberal turn in Quebec in the 1980s, explores the aftermath of a high point for organized labour in the 1970s. In the 1980s public sector workers, like teachers and nurses, were among the first to experience the austerity that would come to characterize government driven neo-liberalism, and Robert’s dissertation is particularly instructive in understanding how this played out in Quebec and how Quebec workers led in organizing against it.