Contributors
- Contributors
Lachlan Barber is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Hong Kong Baptist University, where he teaches cultural and urban geography. His academic interests include gender, work, and mobilities; social and cultural geographies of the City; and critical heritage studies. Lachlan is a co-investigator with the On the Move Partnership, where he is researching employment-related geographical mobility in the Canadian construction sector.
Marie-Pierre Boucher, sociologue, est professeure au Département de Relations industrielles à l'Université du Québec en Outaouais. Elle s'intéresse aux inégalités, au genre et à l'emploi. Ses recherches portent notamment sur la segmentation de l'emploi, les statuts d'emploi, les politiques sociales, ainsi que sur la contractualisation de l'emploi dans l'enseignement supérieur. Elle est membre du Groupe interuniversitaire et interdisciplinaire de recherche sur l'emploi, la pauvreté et la protection sociale (gireps) et du Collectif Travail et Société de l'uqo. En 2006, elle terminait une thèse de doctorat ayant pour thème l'allocation universelle, et depuis, elle a publié Sexe Inc., un essai sur le travail du sexe, et La propriété et ses multiples (2011).
George Elliott Clarke is a revered poet and a prized scholar. An Africadian (African-Nova Scotian) of Afro-Metis (Cherokee) heritage, he has been a bestselling poet, acclaimed novelist, and groundbreaking scholar, having established the field of African-Canadian literature. A professor of English at the University of Toronto, Clarke served as the 7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate (2016–17).
Shelley Condratto is a PhD candidate in the human studies program at Laurentian University. Her doctoral research examines the decline of unionization and the rise of precarious employment within the mining industry of Sudbury, Ontario.
Pietro Di Paola is senior lecturer in history at the University of Lincoln, UK. He is the author of The Knights Errant of Anarchy: London and the Italian Anarchist Diaspora (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013).
Ewan Gibbs lectures in sociology and social policy at the University of the West of Scotland. In 2016 he completed a PhD thesis on deindustrialization in the Scottish coalfields.
Yanick Noiseux est professeur agrégé au sein du Département de sociologie de l'Université de Montréal et chercheur au sein du Groupe interuniversitaire et interdisciplinaire de recherche sur l'emploi, la pauvreté et la protection sociale (gireps). Ses travaux portent principalement sur le renouvellement du syndicalisme, les transformations du travail et les politiques sociales dans le contexte de la mondialisation. Il s'intéresse particulièrement à l'organisation collective des travailleurs précaires au Canada et en Inde. Il a récemment fait paraître l'ouvrage [End Page 6] intitulé Transformations des marchés du travail et innovations syndicales au Québec aux Presses de l'Université du Québec (2014) et a codirigé, avec Fernando J. Pires de Sousa, l'ouvrage Trabalho, desenvolvimento e pobreza no mundo Globalizada aux éditions ufc.
Brian Payne is an associate professor of history and Canadian studies at Bridgewater State University, where he teaches courses in North American economic history, labour history, the Industrial Revolution, and the Great Depression and New Deal. Payne was recently the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in North American Integration at Carleton University, in Ottawa, during the 2016–17 academic year. His primary research interest is recession and depression economic history and resource extractive industries.
Stephanie Ross is associate professor in the School of Labour Studies at McMaster University. She is the co-author of Building a Better World: An Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada (2015) and co-editor of the forthcoming volume Labour under Attack: Anti-Unionism in Canada (2018). Her research and teaching focus on public sector unionism, union political strategy, democracy in working-class and social movement organizations, and labour movement renewal. She is also president of the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies.
Jason Russell is associate professor of labour studies at Empire State College – suny. He is the author of Our Union: uaw/caw Local 27 from 1950 to 1990. He has recently published an article in Management and Organizational History on management education and training at Bell Canada during the post-World...
