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“ Easy Money ” Injured Workers Theatre Project Research-based theatre and the relationship between science, art and political purpose. Ontario’s ‘Early and Safe’ return to work policy: A sociological study of employers and injured workers in small workplaces

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Key research findings

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  1. “Easy Money”Injured Workers Theatre ProjectResearch-based theatre and the relationship between science, art and political purpose

  2. Ontario’s ‘Early and Safe’ return to work policy: A sociological study of employers and injured workers in small workplaces Joan Eakin, Ellen MacEachen, Judy Clarke Funded by the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board

  3. Key research findings • Iatrogenic effects of a ‘discourse of abuse’ on injured workers’ suffering and disability • Policy of self reliance produced ‘playing it smart’ and other perverse compliance

  4. Injured Worker Theatre Project collaborators: Marion Endicott and Orlando Buonestella, Injured Workers Consultants (legal clinic) Kate Lushington, playwright & director Injured Workers’ Collective Professional actors, videographer, Redpepper Spectacle Arts (stage designers) With financial support of the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the Mayworks Festival, CAW Canada,OPSEU Region 5, and the USWA Toronto Area Council.

  5. Excerpt from script… Easy Money A play on words for injured workers A bare stage with a backdrop of ladders and walls From offstage we hear: welfare cheats! freeloaders! frauds! Percussionist starts the beat…

  6. MAYWORKS Festival of Working People and the Arts Easy Money portrays the crazy-making experience of workers facing long-term disability and long term disbelief. Once they play the Board game, it's a lose-lose situation with doctors, experts, forests of paperwork, oceans of grief and a grim apocalyptic sense of humour as they chase the elusive coin of compensation. Performed by actors based on real-life stories and cutting edge research…

  7. Some reflections on research KT • effect on research knowledge when transformed into art and/or advocacy • return on investment –who benefits? • Steering effect of pragmatics • Need for convergence of interests

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