selected scholarly activity
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book reviews
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books
- Building a Better World: An Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada, 4th Edition 2022
- Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada 2021
- Labour Under Attack Anti-Unionism in Canada 2018
- Building a Better World An Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada, 3rd Edition 2015
- Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity 2013
- Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada 2012
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chapters
- In Search of a New Politics of Labour. 306-319. 2022
- COVID-19 and Canadian Labour. 13-29. 2021
- Organizing in Precarious Times: The Political Economy of Work and Workers' Movements after the Great Recession. 333-352. 2019
- The Challenges of Union Political Action in the Era of Neoliberalism: The Case of Ontario 2019
- Policy analysis and advocacy in the Canadian labour movement: When the force of argument is not enough. 331-350. 2018
- The Complexities of Worker Anti-Unionism 2018
- CD and Feminism: Chronicle of a Movement Defining Itself 2016
- Social Unionism and Union Power in Public Sector Unions 2013
- Business Unionism and Social Unionism in Theory and Practice. 33-46. 2012
- The Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly: Lessons, Prospects, Challenges 2012
- Is This What Democracy Looks Like? The politics of the anti-globalization movement in North America. 281-304. 2002
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conferences
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internet publications
- On how Ontario trialed basic income 2022
- Hamilton’s Basic Income Experience 2021
- The advantages of unionization are obvious, so why don't more workers join unions? 2021
- Survey shows some bosses are using the pandemic as an excuse to push workers 2021
- Unionization, academic freedom, & sessional contract faculty 2021
- Exploring CAS bargaining structures and outcomes 2020
- How women are changing the face of Canada’s union leadership 2020
- The Rise of Precarity: Understanding and navigating the emerging economic and social (dis)order 2017
- Faculty Associations at the Crossroads 2014
- Filling Holes: Social Networks, Activism and Community Mobilizing. Learning Changes 2010
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journal articles
- Work reorganization in the neoliberal university: A labour process perspective. Economic and Labour Relations Review. 32:495-512. 2021
- Leo Panitch: Reflections on a Transformative Teacher. Labour. 164-168. 2021
- Sessional Contract Faculty, Unionization, and Academic Freedom. Canadian Journal of Higher Education. 51:57-70. 2021
- Interunion conflict and the evolution of faculty unionism in Canada. Studies in Political Economy. 101:208-229. 2020
- University Teachers and Resistance in the Neoliberal University. Labor Studies Journal. 45:227-249. 2020
- Interrogating the Relationship Between Bargaining Structures and Bargaining Outcomes for Contract Academic Faculty in Ontario. Labour. 86:9-43. 2020
- "Caterpillar Hates Unions More Than It Loves Profits": The Electro-Motive Closure and the Dilemmas of Union Strategy. Labour. 81:53-85. 2018
- Labor Confronts Austerity. Labor Studies Journal. 39:5-8. 2014
- Social Unionism in Hard Times: Union-Community Coalition Politics in the CAW Windsor's Manufacturing Matters Campaign. Labour. 79-+. 2011
- Canadian Autoworkers, the Climate Crisis, and the Contradictions of Social Unionism. Labor Studies Journal. 36:5-36. 2011
- Solidarity Revisited: Organized Labour and the New Democratic Party. Canadian Review of Political Science. 5:20-37. 2011
- The strategic implications of anti-statism in the global justice movement. Labour, Capital and Society. 41:6-32. 2008
- Social Unionism and Membership Participation: What Role for Union Democracy?. Studies in Political Economy. 81:129-157. 2008
- Varieties Of Social Unionism: Towards a Framework for Comparison. Just Labour : A Canadian Journal of Work and Society.
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media
- Are unions poised for a comeback? 2022
- Society values essential work but not essential workers, says expert 2022
- No surprise more people are interested in joining unions these day, says professor 2021
- COVID-19 impact study on Ontario workers, workplaces and families 2021
- COVID-19 impact study on Ontario workers, workplaces and families 2021
- Anti-Unionism in Canada, Part 2 2021
- Anti-Unionism in Canada, Part 1 2021
- Confidential survey will help identify the needs of Ontario workers in the pandemic 2020
- The Future of Unions 2019
- The state of the labour movement in Canada 2018
- Strike threat delayed at Irving Shipyard, but what will happen Monday? 2018
- Not Our Dads’ Unions Anymore: Public sector unions, the new face of organized labour, must connect their interests with those of the public 2013
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presentations
- Unions on the Upsurge 2023
- National Union of Public and General Employees annual Leadership Development School 2023
- Roundtable on CAWLS @ 10 2023
- Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Canadian Workers, Workplaces and Families 2023
- Bargaining Models for Faculty Associations 2023
- Bargaining Unit Structures and Bargaining Outcomes for Sessional Contract Academic Faculty: Implications for Fair and Decent Work in Universities 2023
- COVID 2023
- The Politics of Regulating App-Based Work in the Gig Economy 2023
- COVID-19 and the Politics of Labour in Canada 2022
- The Field of Labor Studies: Perspectives from Canada 2022
- The Labour Movement, Collective Action and Political Engagement 2021
- Understanding Union Practices: Business Unionism, Social Unionism and Social Movement Unionism 2021
- Mapping the Politics of Labour in Canada in the Wake of COVID-19 2021
- Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Ontario Workers, Workplaces and Families 2021
- Community Briefing on Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Ontario Workers, Workplaces and Families research project 2021
- The experience of workers under COVID in Canada 2021
- The Promise and Challenge of Social Unionism 2021
- COVID-19 and the Academic Job 2020
- The Right to Strike 2019
- The Neoliberal University as Workplace: A Labour Process Perspective 2019
- Organizing Precarious Academic Labour 2019
- The Neoliberal University as Workplace: A Labour Process Perspective 2019
- Academic Workers and Resistance in the Neoliberal University 2019
- Broken Wagnerism: Building Unions Beyond the Traditional Workplace 2018
- Unions in the Gig Economy 2018
- The Attack on Unions 2018
- Understanding Worker Anti-Unionism, 2018
- From Equal Pay to #MeToo: The Struggle for Gender Equity in Today’s Workplace 2018
- Labor Under Attack: The Dynamics of Anti-Unionism in Canada 2018
- Learning in the Streets: Political Theory, Political Practice, and Contemporary Practice 2018
- Interrogating Anti-Union Legislative Interventions in Canada 2018
- Building Capacities: Education for Democracy 2017
- Work and Workers’ Movements in Canada After the Great Recession 2017
- “Why Is Quebec’s Labor Movement—and Left—Different?” 2017
- Policy Analysis and Advocacy in the Canadian Labour Movement: When the Force of Argument is Not Enough 2017
- Canada’s Public Sector Unions: Defending Ourselves, Defending the Public Good 2017
- Precarious and Political: Retail Workers’ Struggle and Union Renewal in Ontario Supermarkets 2017
- No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power 2016
- The Politics of Organized Labour. 2016
- Unions and Political Action: Strategic Options in the Age of Austerity 2016
- Labour Studies in the Neoliberal University 2015
- 20/20: Vision/Hindsight – A Roundtable Discussion 2015
- The New Unionism: Labour Movement Renewal and the Implications for Teachers’ Unions 2015
- Inequality is the Problem, Unions are the Solution: A Call for Labour Law Reform in Alberta 2015
- The Historic Feminist Victories of the 1980s on Reproductive Rights and Pay Equity: Looking Back and Forward 2015
- Class, Inequality and Workers: Labour Movements and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy 2014
- New approaches to unionism and faculty activism across the globe 2014
- Challenges for Public Sector Unions in Today’s Bargaining Climate 2014
- Dissent and Resistance at the Workplace conference 2014
- Uniting the Struggles: Labour and Social Movements 2014
- Future Directions for Union Growth 2014
- Plant Closures and the Dilemmas of Union Strategy: The Case of Caterpillar 2014
- The Past, Present and Future of Work and Labour Studies 2014
- Registering Class: 50 Years of the Socialist Register 2014
- Professional Unions in the Public Sector: Strategic Directions in the Age of Austerity 2014
- The Politics of Public Sector Unions: Strategic Directions in the Age of Austerity 2014
- Theorizing Public Sector Union Power 2014
- The Politics of Public Sector Unions 2014
- The Federal Attack on Public Sector Workers’ Rights: Strategic Implications for Public Sector Unions 2013
- Registering Class over 50 Years 2013
- Organizing Against Austerity: Strategic Implications for Public Sector Unions, 2013
- Austerity Politics, Bargaining and Union Survival: Implications for Faculty Associations 2013
- The Rand Formula and union renewal in a time of austerity 2013
- Resisting Austerity: Strategies for Public Sector Workers 2013
- Social Unionist Strategies and Union Power in Canada’s Public Sector Unions 2012
- Working Class Struggles 2012
- Rethinking the Regime: Labour and Politics in a time of “Austerity” 2012
- Panel on The Left’s Political-Conceptual Responses to the Crisis 2011
- The Left’s Response to the Crisis in Europe and North America 2011
- Shop Stewards and Union Power 2011
- Social Unionism in Hard Times 2011
- Canadian Autoworkers and the Climate Crisis 2010
- The Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly: Lessons, Prospects, Challenges 2010
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reports