Dr. Jordan House

Assistant Professor, Labour Studies

Jordan House

Office: PLZ 335
905-688-5550 x3892
jhouse@brocku.ca

Education

PhD, York University
MA, University of New Brunswick
BA (Hons), University of New Brunswick

Research Interests

I’m primarily interested in questions of class in contemporary capitalism. My main areas of research are prison labour, class and the far right, and labour movement renewal.

Selected Publications

Books

Journal Articles

  • Evans, Jessica and Jordan House. (2023). “‘A Prison is No Place for a Pandemic’: Canadian Prisoners’ Collective Action in the Time of COVID-19,” Punishment & Society 26:1, 168–186.
  • McMaster, Gregory and Jordan House. (2022). “An Insider’s Perspective on Canadian Prison Labour: An Interview with Gregory McMaster,” Journal of Prisoners on Prisons 32:2, 37-49.
  • House, Jordan and Kelly Struthers Montford. (2022). “Perspectives on Prison Labour in Canada and Beyond: An Introduction,” Journal of Prisoners on Prisons 32:2, 6-15.
  • House, Jordan and Paul Christopher Gray. (2019). “The Toronto Airport Workers’ Council: Renewing Workplace Organizing and Socialist Labor Education,” Labor Studies Journal 44: 1, 8-35.
  • House, Jordan. (2018). “When Prisoners Had a Union: The Canadian Food and Allied Workers Union, Local 240,” Labour / Le Travail 83, 9-39.

Book Chapters

  • House, Jordan. (2020). “Organizing and Augmentation” in Robert Latham, Julian von Bargen, A.T. Kingsmith and Niko Block (eds.), Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left: Recasting Leftist Imagination. Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood.
  • Corbeil, Matthew and Jordan House. (2016). “Does Direct Action Get the Goods? A Study of the Possibilities and Limits of ‘Solidarity Networks,’” in William K. Carroll and Kanchan Sarker (eds.), A World to Win: Contemporary Social Movements and Counterhegemony. Winnipeg: ARP.