Contributors / Collaborateurs
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Tracey Adams is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. Her research generally explores the link between work and social inequality in historical context. Most of her research focuses on the development of professions and the acquisition of professional power historically in Canada.
Kendra Coulter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology at the University of Windsor. Her studies of gender and economic inequalities have appeared in Studies in Political Economy, Just Labour, and the Journal of Women, Politics and Policy. She worked in retail for six years without the benefits or protection of a union.
Lois Jackson (PhD) is in the Faculty of Health Professions and is Acting Scientific Director of the Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre at Dalhousie University. She studies the relationship between work and health, social inequities and health, addictions, and qualitative methods of inquiry.
Suzanne Mills is an Assistant Professor in the School of Labour Studies and the School of Geography and Earth Sciences at McMaster University. Her research examines labour union engagement with Aboriginal peoples and diversity in resource-based employment. She has published articles in Geoforum, the Canadian Journal of Native Studies, and the Labour Studies Journal.
Barbara Neis (PhD) is a University Research Professor in Sociology and a Senior Research Associate at the SafetyNet Centre at Memorial University where she does research on work and health with a focus on rural and remote occupations.
Yanick Noiseux étudie le travail atypique, les politiques publiques liées au travail et le renouvellement du syndicalisme. Il enseigne à HEC-Montréal et fait actuellement des études postdoctorales au Tata Institute of Science Science à Mumbai.
Bryan D. Palmer, Canada Research Chair at Trent University, is the author of a number of books, the most recent of which are James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 (2007) and Canada's 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era (2009).
Paula Romanow holds a PhD in Communication and works as a research coordinator at the Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre, Dalhousie University.
Sharon R. Roseman is Professor of Anthropology at Memorial University and a specialist on migration, mobile work, unpaid labour, class and gender.
Gavin Smith taught social anthropology at the University of Toronto until June 2010. The author of a number of studies, his most recent book, Critical Practice — Capitalism, History and Place: Essays in Historical Realism, will be published later this year. He is currently co-editor of Focaal — Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology.
Jane Stinson is Director of the FemNorthNet participatory research action project at the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW). Hired by Gil Levine for a summer job at the Canadian Union of [End Page 7] Public Employees in 1977, her life was transformed by working with him. Her 30-year work history at CUPE was primarily in research and education, starting as a Research Assistant, becoming Research Director and Managing Director of the National Services and Union Development departments.
Julia Temple Newhook has a PhD in Sociology from Memorial University and is a former research assistant at the SafetyNet Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Research at Memorial. Her doctoral research examined gender, work and health among primary and elementary school teachers in Newfoundland.
Geoffrey Wood is Professor in the School of Management, and Associate Dean, University of Sheffield, England, as well as Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, and Honorary Professor of the University of Witwatersrand, also in South Africa. His current research interests include union renewal in the developing world, and advances in heterodox institutional theory.
Chrissy Vincent holds a MSc in Experimental Social Psychology and is currently a Research Assistant at SafetyNet, Memorial University. [End Page 8]
