EXECUTIVE

Jordan House is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Labour Studies at Brock University. His research interests include prison labour, new forms of worker organizations, and the class politics of the far right. He is the author (with Asaf Rashid) of Solidarity Beyond Bars: Unionizing Prison Labour (Fernwood Publishing, 2022).

Adam is an Assistant Professor in the Labour Studies Program at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. His research projects centre on the relationship between labour and settler colonialism. The first is a collaborative project that traces the history of the contested regulation of Indigenous labour relations through the so-called “core of Indianness,” a legal concept used to determine federal jurisdiction over Indigenous enterprises.

He is also co-investigator on a SSHRC Partnership Grant (“Liberating Migrant Labour? International Mobility Programs in Settler-Colonial Contexts”), which critically examines temporary labour migration programs in the context of settler-colonial states (Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand).

Julia Smith (she/her) is an associate professor in the Labour Studies Program at the University Manitoba. She studies the political economy of labour relations in Canada and the history and politics of women’s labour activism.

Jason Russell is a Professor of Labour Studies at SUNY Empire State University. He is the author of Our Union: UAW/CAW Local 27 from 1950 to 1990 (Athabasca University Press, 2011); Making Managers in Canada, 1950 – 1990: Companies, Community Colleges, and Universities (Routledge, 2018); Leading Progress: the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, 1920 – 2020 (Between the Lines, 2020); Canada, A Working History (Dundurn, 2021); and Management and Labor Conflict: An Introduction to the US and Canadian History (Routledge, 2022). Russell is also the author and co-author of several journal articles and book chapters. His current projects include examining representations of workers in 1970s and 1980s popular culture.

Larry Savage is Professor in the Department of Labour Studies at Brock University. He has previously served as a member of the Executive Council of the Ontario Federation of Labour. His research is concerned with examining the link between organized labour and politics. His current research involves evaluating collective bargaining and union organizing strategies

Phil Henderson is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at UofT. His current research project is interested in the interrelations between labour unions and Indigenous land/water defenders in what’s presently known as Canada. In particular, he’s interested in a more thorough understanding of the conditions of work and workplace organizing that facilitate solidaristic relationships. He is also a proud member of CUPE 4600.

Charles Smith (Ph.D York) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan. His research interests include Canadian and International political economy, public law, labour unions and federal and provincial public policy. He is the author of Transforming Provincial Politics (2015) and Unions in Court: Organized Labour and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (2017). He has also authored numerous articles on Saskatchewan Politics, Labour in Court and Labour History. Charles is also co-editor of Canada’s foremost labour studies journal Labour/Le Travail