Wayne Lewchuk - McMaster Experts

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Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University
Professor Emeritus, Labour Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Economics history (RA)
Healthcare systems and health economics research (RA)
Labour economics (RA)

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books
- Working without commitments: The health effects of precarious employment 2011
- The British Motor Vehicle Industry 1896-1984: The British System of Mass Production and the Roots of Industrial Decline 1987
chapters
- The Age of Increased Precarious Employment: Origins and Implications. 29-47. 2021
- Precarious employment: What it means for workers and their families. 150-169. 2017
- Men and monotony fraternalism as a managerial strategy at the ford motor company. 65-79. 2015
- The limits and possibilites of the structures and procedures for health and safety regulation in Ontario Canada. 157-180. 2014
- Bridging the Gap. 106-117. 2014
- A Short History of the Employment Relationship: Control, Effort, and Support. 34-60. 2011
- Appendix: Methods. 295-302. 2011
- Bibliography. 303-326. 2011
- Creating Commitments in Less Permanent Employment: Policy Reforms to Address Rising Insecurity. 263-294. 2011
- Gender, Race, and the Characteristics of the Employment Relationship. 93-128. 2011
- Sustainable, Less Permanent Employment. 177-200. 2011
- The Blurred Lines between Precariousness and Permanence. 155-176. 2011
- The Employment Strain Model and the Health Effects of Less Permanent Employment. 129-154. 2011
- Unsustainable, Less Permanent Employment. 231-262. 2011
- Working Without Commitments and the Characteristics of the Employment Relationship. 61-92. 2011
- Working Without Commitments: Employment Relationships and Health. 3-33. 2011
- “On a Path” to Employment Security. 201-230. 2011
- Workplace Cohesion and the Fragmentation of Solidarity: The Magna Model. 63-+. 2010
- Precarious Employment and the Internal Responsibility System: Some Canadian Experiences. 109-133. 2009
- Precarious Employment and the Internal Responsibility System: Some Canadian Experiences. 109-133. 2009
- Workplace Cohesion and the Fragmentation of Society: The Magna Model in Canada. 63-85. 2008
- Employment Strain, Precarious Employment, and Temporary Employment Agencies. 98-130. 2007
- The Hidden Costs of Precarious Employment: Health and the Employment Relationship. 141-162. 2006
- Automobile 2005
- Henry Ford 2005
- Frank Woollard 2004
- Patterns of Labour Control and the Erosion of Labour Standards: Towards an International Study of the Quality of Working Life in the Automobile Industry: Canada, Japan and the UK.. 258-290. 2004
- European Economic Integration and the Labour Compact, 1850-1913. European Review of Economic History. 3-41. 2003
- Mass Production. 467-472. 2003
- Walter Chrysler. 198-200. 2003
- Men and Mass Production: The Role of Gender in Managerial Strategies in the British and American Automobile Industries. 219-242. 1999
- The Canadian Automobile Workers and Lean Production: Results of a Worker-Based Benchmarking Study. 56-71. 1999
- Work Reorganization and the Quality of Life in the Canadian Automotive Industry. 389-404. 1998
- Working Conditions Under Lean Production: A Worker Based Benchmarking Study. Asia Pacific Business Review. 60-81. 1997
- 15. Judgments of Legitimacy regarding Occupational Health and Safety. 284-302. 1995
- Judgements of Legitimacy Regarding Occupational Health and Safety. 284-301. 1995
- Fordist Technology and Britain: The Diffusion of Labour Speed-up. 3-27. 1992
- Fordism and the Moving Assembly Line: The British and American Experience. 17-41. 1988
- Worker Preferences for Co-operatives Versus Plant Closures 1988
- The Motor Vehicle Industry. 135-161. 1986
- Fordism and the British Motor Car Employer: 1896-1932. 82-110. 1983
- Patterns of Labour Control and the ERosion of Labour Standarsd in Regimes of Hegemonic Despotism
- Precarious Employment and Occupational Health and Safety in Ontario. 163-177.
community engaged research
- The Z Effect: Employment Precarity, COVID-19 and Mental Health Impact on Hamilton's Generation Z
- Women Firefighters
conferences
- Health services gaps experienced by non-standard workers in Ontario, Canada: Policy implications. European Journal of Public Health. 2022
- Precarious employment and precarious resistance: “we are people still”. Studies in Political Economy. 143-158. 2016
- Glory Days? Work Hours, Labour Market Regulations and Convergence in Late 19th Century Europe. Journal of Economic History. 562-562. 1998
- GIVING AND GETTING THE WRONG SIGNALS - INSTITUTIONS, TECHNICAL CHANGE, AND THE DECLINE OF BRITISH PRODUCTIVITY SINCE 1850. BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC HISTORY, SECOND SERIES, VOL 20, 1991. 77-88. 1991
internet publications
- On how Ontario trialed basic income 2022
- Hamilton’s Basic Income Experience 2021
journal articles
- What is the Role of Minimum Wages in Addressing Precarious Employment in the Informal and Formal Sectors? Findings from a Systematic Review.. International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services. 27551938241286463. 2024
- Precarious work on the rise. BMC Public Health. 24:2074. 2024
- :The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind. The Journal of modern history. 95:693-695. 2023
- Experiences of insecurity among non-standard workers across different welfare states: A qualitative cross-country study. Social Science and Medicine. 327:115970-115970. 2023
- Non-Standard Employment and Unemployment during the COVID-19 Crisis: Economic and Health Findings from a Six-Country Survey Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19:5865-5865. 2022
- Occupation Health and Safety: A Failure to Protect the Right of Workers to Participate in Enforcement. Relations Industrielles. 77. 2022
- Collective bargaining in Canada in the age of precarious employment. Labour and Industry. 31:189-203. 2021
- COVID-19 and Precarious Employment: Consequences of the Evolving Crisis. International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services. 51:226-228. 2021
- Precarious jobs: Where are they, and how do they affect well-being?. Economic and Labour Relations Review. 28:402-419. 2017
- The experience of employment strain and activation among temporary agency workers in Canada. Society, Health & Vulnerability. 8:1306914-1306914. 2017
- What Shapes Automotive Investment Decisions in a Contemporary Global Economy?. Canadian Public Policy/ Analyse de Politiques. 43:S16-S29. 2017
- Austerity policies, ‘precarity’ and the nonprofit workforce: A comparative study of UK and Canada. Journal of Industrial Relations, The. 58:455-472. 2016
- Identifying knowledge activism in worker health and safety representation: A cluster analysis. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 59:42-56. 2016
- Men and Monotony: Fraternalism as a managerial Strategy at the Ford Motor Company. Journal of Economic History. 53:824-856. 2015
- Racialized and gendered disparities in occupational exposures among Chinese and white workers in Toronto. Ethnicity and Health. 19:512-528. 2014
- Paradoxes of Internationalization: British and German Trade Unions at Ford and General Motors, 1967-2000. Labour. 398-400. 2014
- Dimitry Anastakis. Autonomous State: The Epic Struggle for a Canadian Car Industry from OPEC to Free Trade. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. xvi + 549 pp. ISBN 978-1-4426-4504-2 (cloth); 978-1-4426-1297-6, $39.95 (paper).. Enterprise & Society. 14:856-858. 2013
- The Limits of Voice: Are Workers Afraid to Express Their Health and Safety Rights?. Osgoode Hall Law Journal. 50:789-812. 2013
- Canadian Labour in Crisis: Reinventing the Workers' Movement. Labour. 213-215. 2012
- The Dirt: Industrial Disease and Conflict at St. Lawrence, Newfoundland. By Rick Rennie. (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2008. 150 p., iii, maps, notes. ISBN 978-1-55266-259-5 $19.95). Scientia canadensis. 34:94-94. 2011
- Managing the Human Factor: The Early Years of Human Resource Management in American Industry. Labour. 224-226. 2010
- Social Murder and Other Shortcomings of Conservative Economics. Labour. 340-342. 2009
- Working without commitments: precarious employment and health. Work, Employment and Society. 22:387-406. 2008
- Transforming worker representation: The Magna model in Canada and Mexico. Labour. 107-+. 2007
- ‘This just isn't sustainable’: Precarious employment, stress and workers' health. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 30:311-326. 2007
- Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971 (review). Canadian Historical Review, The. 88:326-327. 2007
- When Corporations Substitute for Adversarial Unions. Relations Industrielles. 61:639-665. 2006
- Les ouvriers de Vauxhall face à la lean production. Mouvement Social. 217:33-33. 2006
- Len Holden. Vauxhall Motors and the Luton Economy, 1900–2002. (The Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, Volume 82.) Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2003. Pp. xviii, 249. $39.95. ISBN 0- 85155-068-1.. Journal of British Studies. 36:744-745. 2004
- Socialist register, 2001: Working classes and global realities. Labour. 342-345. 2002
- More than they promised: The Studebaker story. Business History. 44:127-128. 2002
- Empowerment As a Trojan Horse: New Systems of Work Organization in the North American Automobile Industry. Economic and Industrial Democracy. 22:517-541. 2001
- Quality of working life in the automobile industry: A Canada‐UK comparative study. New Technology, Work, and Employment. 16:72-87. 2001
- Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor. By Craig Phelan. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. Pp. 294. $65.00.. Journal of Economic History. 61:222-223. 2001
- From Dust to DUST to Dust: Asbestos and the Struggle for Worker Health and Safety at Bendix Automotive. Labour. 45:103-103. 2000
- Book Reviews. Business History. 41:154-155. 1999
- The rational factory: architecture, technology, and work in America's age of mass production - Biggs,L. The Economic History Review. 50:845-846. 1997
- Production without Empowerment: Work reorganization from the perspective of motor vehicle workers. Capital & Class. 21:37-64. 1997
- The Effectiveness of Bill 70 and Joint Health and Safety Committees in Reducing Injuries in the Workplace: The Case of Ontario. Canadian Public Policy/ Analyse de Politiques. 22:225-225. 1996
- Workplace organizational correlates of lost-time accident rates in manufacturing. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 29:258-268. 1996
- Book Reviews. Business History. 38:171-172. 1996
- BREAKING FROM TAYLORISM - CHANGING FORMS OF WORK IN THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY - JURGENS,U. Labour. 392-393. 1995
- General and Miscellaneous - Taylored Lives: Narrative Production in the Age of Taylor, Veblen, and Ford. By Martha Banta. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 431. $34.95.. Journal of Economic History. 54:728-729. 1994
- MARKETS, FIRMS, AND THE MANAGEMENT OF LABOR IN MODERN BRITAIN - GOSPEL,HF. Labour. 424-425. 1993
- Wokutch, Richard E., Worker Protection, Japanese Style : Occupational Safety and Health in the Auto Industry. Relations Industrielles. 48:378-378. 1993
- Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America. By Samuel H. Preston and Michael R. Haines. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Pp. xxi, 272. $37.50.. Journal of Economic History. 52:514-515. 1992
- COOPERATION AND CONFLICT IN OCCUPATIONAL-SAFETY AND HEALTH - A MULTINATION STUDY OF THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY - WOKUTCH,RE. Labour. 383-385. 1991
- Industrialization and occupational mortality in France prior to 1914. Explorations in economic history (EEH). 28:344-366. 1991
- A QUEST FOR TIME - THE REDUCTION OF WORK IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE, 1840-1940 - CROSS,G. Business History Review. 65:213-217. 1991
- Book Review: The Motor Makers: The Turbulent History of Britain's Car Industry. Journal of Transport History. 12:97-98. 1991
- Class, Power and Technology: Skilled Workers in Britain and America.. Contemporary Sociology. 20:232-232. 1991
- Liberalism at Work: The Rise and Fall of OSHA. By Charles Noble. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. Pp. x, 292. $29.95, paper.. Journal of Economic History. 51:252-253. 1991
- REDUCED WORKTIME AND THE MANAGEMENT OF PRODUCTION - NYLAND,C. Business History Review. 65:213-217. 1991
- Book Reviews. Business History. 33:163-165. 1991
- Workers' preferences for co-operatives versus private buy-outs. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 14:261-283. 1990
- Labour and Society in Britain, 1918–1979. By James E. Cronin. New York: Schocken Books, 1984. Pp. x, 248. $22.50.. Journal of Economic History. 49:738-739. 1989
- Restructuring the Automobile Industry: A Study of Firms and States in Modern Capitalism. By Dennis Patrick QuinnJr., New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. xv + 395 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00.. Business History Review. 62:722-723. 1988
- INNOVATION AND MANAGEMENT CONTROL - LABOR-RELATIONS AT BL-CARS - WILLMAN,P, WINCH,G. Labour. 230-232. 1987
- The Japanese Automobile Industry. Canadian Journal of Economics, The. 20:181-181. 1987
- David Thomas and Tom Donnelly. The Motor Car Industry in Coventry Since the 1890's. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1985. Pp. 243. $27.50.. Journal of British Studies. 18:703-705. 1986
- The Return to Capital in the British Motor Vehicle Industry 1896–1939. Business History. 27:3-25. 1985
- The Role of the British Government in the Spread of Scientific Management and Fordism in the Interwar Years. Journal of Economic History. 44:355-361. 1984
- T.R. Nicholson. The Birth of the British Motor Car. Vol. I, A New Machine, 1769-1842; Vol. II, Revival and Defeat, 1842-93; Vol. HI, The Last Battle, 1894-97. London: Macmillan; distributed by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J. 1982. Pp. 506. $40 per volume.. Journal of British Studies. 15:155-156. 1983
- From Job Strain to Employment Strain: Health Effects of Precarious Employment. Just Labour : A Canadian Journal of Work and Society.
- Has There Been a She-covery? The Financial Crisis of 2008 and Its Impact on the Ontario Labour Market. Relations Industrielles. 68:25-45.
other
- COVID and Physical and Mental Health 2021
- Financial Well-Being and COVID 2021
presentations
- Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Ontario Workers, Workplaces and Families 2021
- The experience of workers under COVID in Canada 2021
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chapters
- “No One Cares About Us”: Determinants and Impacts of Precarious Employment Among Racialized Immigrant Women 2017