Robert O'Brien - McMaster Experts

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Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University
Professor, Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Canadian politics and government (RA)
Climate change processes (RA)
Environmental management (RA)
International economics and international finance (RA)
International relations (RA)
International trade law (RA)
Labour economics (RA)
Labour, employment, compensation and pension law (RA)
Political science (RA)
Social policy (RA)

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books
chapters
- Business, labour and global social policy. 65-86. 2022
- Structural Adjustment for the North. 21-21. 2014
- Antagonism and Accommodation: the Labour – IMF / World Bank Relationship. 153-153. 2014
- Global Labour Policy. 123-150. 2014
- Global Political Economy. 46-57. 2013
- Using Domestic Legal Tools to Further Western Labour Internationalism 2010
- Using Domestic Legal Tools to Further Western Labour Internationalism. International Political Economy Series. 209-225. 2010
- Laobur, Globalization and the Attempt to Build Transnational Community. 164-164. 2009
- No Safe Havens: Labour, Regional Integration and Globalisation. 142-142. 2007
- Labour and business on a global scale. 43-64. 2007
- Contending Perspectives on Global Governance. 213-230. 2005
- Paths to reforming global governance. 123-137. 2003
conferences
- What kind of people are workers?. Labor History. 108-113. 2006
journal articles
- Revisiting Rosa Luxemburg’s internationalism. Journal of International Political Theory. 17:58-80. 2021
- Ten Years of the Global Labour Journal: Reflecting on the Rise of the New Global Labour Studies. Global Labour Journal. 11:4-17. 2020
- Editors’ note. Global Social Policy. 11:3-4. 2011
- An Internationalist Western Labour Response to the Globalization of India and China. Global Labour Journal. 1. 2010
- North American Regional Report. Global Social Policy. 9:127-133. 2009
- Global Social Policy Forum. Global Social Policy. 8:301-301. 2008
- Global Social Policy Forum. Global Social Policy. 7:5-22. 2007
- Editor’s Note. Global Social Policy. 6:131-132. 2006
- Editors’ Message. Global Social Policy. 6:5-6. 2006
- GSP Forum. Global Social Policy. 6:7-7. 2006
- GSP Forum: International Relations and Global Social Policy. Global Social Policy. 6:14-16. 2006
- Continuing incivility: labor rights in a global economy. Journal of Human Rights. 3:203-214. 2004
- Organizational Politics, Multilateral Economic Organizations and Social Policy. Global Social Policy. 2:141-161. 2002
- Global Social Policy Forum. Global Social Policy. 2:5-18. 2002
- Workers and world order: the tentative transformation of the international union movement. Review of International Studies. 26:533-555. 2000
- The Difficult Birth Of A Global Labour Movement. Review of International Political Economy : RIPE. 7:514-523. 2000
- The WTo and Civil Society. Journal of World Trade. 33:107-123. 1999
- Contesting the canon: international political economy at UK and US universities. Review of International Political Economy : RIPE. 4:214-238. 1997
- North American Integration and International Relations Theory. Canadian Journal of Political Science. 28:693-724. 1995
- Global Labour Journal: Our Last Edition. Global Labour Journal. 5.
- Review of Selwyn, B. (2014) The Global Development Crisis. Global Labour Journal. 6.
- Review of Steve Hughes and Nigel Haworth's 'The International Labour Organisation (ILO): Coming in From the Cold'. Global Labour Journal. 4.
preprints
- The WTO and Civil Society 1999