Associate Professor, Labour Studies
905-688-5550 x5350
simon.black@brocku.ca
Education
PhD, York Univeristy
MA, McMaster University
BA(Hons.), University of Toronto
Research Interests
Professor Black received his B.A. (Hons) in sociology from the University of Toronto, his M.A. in labour studies from McMaster University, and his Ph.D. in political science from York University. He is interested in the political economy of work, labour, and care. Black is the author of Social Reproduction and the City: Welfare Reform, Child Care, and Resistance in Neoliberal New York (University of Georgia Press). His past research has explored community-labour coalitions, community unionism and alternative labour movements (or ‘alt-labour’), and neoliberal restructuring and resistance in the child care sector. His current research focuses on the regulation of domestic work and on domestic worker organizing and collective action. Professor Black is a member of the Canada-Caribbean Institute at Brock.
Research Interests: Feminist Political Economy, Domestic and Care Work, Unions and Union Renewal, Alternative Labour Movements, Labour Standards.
- Black, Simon. 2024. “Domestic Workers Need Government Action, Not a Bagga Mouth.” The Gleaner, October 6. https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20241006/simon-black-domestic-workers-need-government-action-not-bagga-mouth
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Black, Simon and Lauren Marsh. 2024. “Domestic Workers’ Organizations and Participatory Approaches to Labour Standards Enforcement: The Case of Jamaica.” International Labour Review 163(3): 477-497.
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Black, Simon. 2023. “Democratic Socialism and the Manley Legacy: Reflections from the Global North.” Social and Economic Studies 71(1&2): 158-165.
- Black, Simon. 2023. “How Unionization is Empowering Jamaican Domestic Workers to Demand Decent Work.” The Conversation, November 7. https://theconversation.com/how-unionization-is-empowering-jamaican-domestic-workers-to-demand-decent-work-216475
- Black, Simon and Lauren Marsh. 2023. Achieving Decent Work for Domestic Workers in Jamaica: Progress and Prospects Seven Years After the Ratification of the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189).
- Black, Simon. 2022. “Essential But Not Empowered: Reflections on the Working Class in Canada Under COVID-19.” Studies in Political Economy 103 (2): 130-152.
- Black, Simon. 2021. “Community Unionism and Alt-Labour in Canada.” In Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada, Second Edition, (eds.) Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage. Halifax: Fernwood.
- Black, Simon. 2020. Social Reproduction and the City: Welfare, Child Care, and Resistance in Neoliberal New York. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
- Black, Simon. 2019. “Playing Left Wing: Renewing a Political Economy of Sport.” Pp. 315-332 in Change and Continuity: Canadian Political Economy in the New Millenium, (eds.) Mark P. Thomas, Leah F. Vosko, Carlo Fanelli and Olena Lyubchenko. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press
- Black, Simon. 2018. “Community Unionism Without the Community? Lessons from Labor-Community Coalitions in the Canadian Child Care Sector.” Labour Studies Journal 43 (2): 118-140.
- Black, Simon. 2018. “Anti-Unionism in Professional Sport: The Case of the CHL.” Pp. 83-97 in Labour Under Attack: Anti-Unionism in Canada, (eds.) Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage. Halifax: Fernwood.
- Black, Simon (Producer/Researcher). 2017. It Takes A Riot: Race, Rebellion, Reform. Documentary Short.
- Black, Simon. 2017. “In Defence of ‘Gold-Plated’ Child Care: Union Struggles to Preserve Quality Care and Quality Care Work in Toronto.” Pp. 189-207 in Unions and the City: Negotiating Urban Change, (ed.) Ian MacDonald. New York: Cornell University Press.