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
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
"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
