I am generally interested in the political economy of work, labour, and care. My past research has explored community-labour coalitions, community unionism, and ‘alt-labour’. I have also written about unions in the care economy and working-class politics. My current research focuses on domestic work, domestic workers’ rights, and domestic workers’ organizing and collective action in the Caribbean.

My areas of research and teaching expertise include the interaction of labour rights and the Charter, industrial relations, labour and employment law, as well as human rights in the workplace.

My research is on precarious work, Marxist political economy, labour politics and socialist strategy. I also have an interest in research methods and statistics.

My recent research has focused on labour organizing by gig workers as well as union coalitions in the education and airline sectors. I have also written on the role of public sector workers in democratizing governance and administration. My long-term research project is the history of theories and practices of justice.

My research focuses on prison labour, labour movement renewal, and new forms of worker organization.

My research focuses primarily on the politics of organized labour in Canada. Recent research has revolved around the changing nature of party-union relations, the strategic use of rights discourse and the constitutional politics of labour.

Thomas Dunk’s research interests focus on linkages between economy, culture, and society, with a specific focus on class, masculinities, and economic transformation. He is the author of It’s a Working Man’s Town: Male Working-Class Culture; editor of Social Relations in Resource Hinterlands and Marginal Zones in the Age of Globalization: Case Studies from the North and South; and co-editor with Randle Nelsen and Stephen McBride of The Training Trap: Ideology, Training, and the Labour Market. He has also published articles and book chapters on workers and environmentalism, whiteness and working-class identity, deindustrialization, hunting, and neoliberalism. His current research concerns the application of the concept of the circular bioeconomy in the forest industry, as well as industrial ruination and its link to populism and masculinities in resource hinterland regions as witnessed in controversies about hunting, animal rights, and environmentalism.

My research focuses on the causes and consequences of economic restructuring in the post-World War II United States, with an emphasis on how capital migration and deindustrialization have transformed workers, communities, industrial policy (at the local, state, regional, and federal levels), and national politics.

My research is in the area of the sociology of higher education with a focus on the regulation of academic work. Recent research investigates the regulation of academic work (the production of knowledge, forms of knowledge) in the context of accountability governance.