University of Manitoba - Faculty of Arts - Labour Studies - David Camfield
David Camfield

PhD Social and Political Thought, York University, 2002
MA Social and Political Thought, York University, 1995
BA Political Science & Social and Political Thought, York University, 1994

Research Interests:

Contemporary Canadian Unions
Social Theory
Theory and Practice of Workers' Movements
Working Classes as Historical Formations
Racism, Sexism and Heterosexism
Social Movements
Work in Capitalist Societies

Publications:

"The 'Great Recession', The Employers' Offensive and Canadian Public Sector Unions."
Socialist Studies/Etudes socialistes 7.1/2 (2011)
  
Canadian Labour in Crisis:  Reinventing the Workers' Movement (Fernwood, 2011)

"Analyzing the 2004 HEU Strike and Union Bureaucracy."  Studies in Political Economy 84 (2009).

"Sympathy for the Teacher:  Labour Law and Transgressive Workers' Collective Action in British Columbia, 2005."  Capital and Class 99 (2009).

"The Working-Class Movement in Canada: An Overview." Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada  Ed. Miriam Smith. Peterborough: Broadview. (2008)

"CUPE's Sympathy Strikes in British Columbia, October 2005: Raising the Bar for Solidarity." Just Labour 11 (Autumn 2007)

"Renewal in Canadian Public Sector Unions: Neoliberalism and Union Praxis." Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations 62.2 (Spring 2007)

"The Multitude and the Kangaroo: A Critique of Hardt and Negri's Theory of Immaterial Labour."  Historical Materialism 15.2 (2007)

"Neoliberalism and Working-Class Resistance in British Columbia: The Hospital Employees' Union Struggle, 2002-2004." Labour/Le Travail 57 (Spring 2006)

"Renewing the Study of Public Sector Unions in Canada." Socialist Studies/Etudes Socialistes 1.2 (Fall 2005)

"Public Sector 'Reform' and the Future of Public Sector Unions in Canada." Review of Economic and Social Trends in Manitoba (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives -- Manitoba) 5.1 (2005)

“Re-Orienting Class Analysis: Working Classes as Historical Formations.” Science and Society 68.4 (Winter 2004).

“Beyond Adding on Gender and Class: Revisiting Feminism and Marxism.” Studies in Political Economy 68, 2002.

“A Second Reply to Bronner” [contribution to “A Debate: The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg”], New Politics (New Series) 8.4 (Winter 2002).

“Assessing Resistance in Harris’s Ontario, 1995-1999.” Restructuring and Resistance: Canadian Public Policy in an Age of Global Capitalism. Ed. Mike Burke, Colin Mooers and John Shields. Halifax: Fernwood. 2000.

"The Two Souls of CLR James's Socialism." Critique (Glasgow) 30/31, 1998.

Courses:

LABR 1260 Working for a Living

LABR 1290 Introduction to the Canadian Labour Movement

LABR 2100 The Political Economy of Labour

LABR 3090 Globalization and Labour