Assistant Professor, Labour Studies

Office: PLZ 347
905 688 5550 x5419
pgray2@brocku.ca
Education
PhD, York University
MA, York University
BA, Trent University
Research Interests
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.
Books
- (2018) From the Streets to the State: Changing the World By Taking Power. New York: State University of New York Press.
Journal Articles
- (2024) with Jordan House, “Wall-to-Wall Worker Organizing in the University: the Coalition of Rutgers Unions,” Work in the Global Economy, Online Pre-Publication (December 12): 1-27.
- (2022) ‘“The same tools work everywhere.” Organizing Gig Workers with Foodsters United,’ Labour/Le Travail, 90 (Fall): 41-84.
- (2019) with Jordan House, “The Toronto Airport Workers’ Council: Renewing Workplace Organizing and Socialist Labor Education,” Labor Studies Journal, 44(1): 8-35.
- (2017) “The Rise and Retreat of Syriza: An Interview with Michalis Spourdalakis,” Studies in Political Economy, 98(3): 333-349.
Book Chapters
- (2022) with Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage, “The Future of Work? App-Based Workers and the Gig Economy,” in Power and Resistance: Critical Thinking about Canadian Social Issues, 7th Ed., eds. Wayne Anthony, Jessica Anthony, and Les Samuelson. Winnipeg & Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
- (2020) “Citizen Marx: On his Distinction between Cosmopolitanism and Internationalism,” in Cosmopolitanism and its Discontents, ed. Lee Ward. London: Lexington Books.
- (2020) “Should Public Sector Workers have the Right to Strike?” in Canadian Labour Relations: Law, Policy and Practice 2nd Edition, eds. David Doorey and Alison Braley-Rattai. Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications Ltd.
- (2015) “The Divine Right of Things: On the ‘Impersonal Dependence’ of Capitalism,” in A New Social Question: Capitalism, Socialism and Utopia, ed. Casey Harison. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.