I have a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (1981) and the Ability to Conduct and Advise Research, (Superior Academic French Diploma), from the University of Paris 10-Nanterre (2004). My fields of interest are the relationships between employment, labour and vocational training. I first study the way young people find a first job or remain unemployed during the 1970’s crisis, in relation to their vocational training. Then I study the training policy of both public (French or UE level) institutions and private firms, focusing on the training policies based on worker’s own competencies (“Logique competences”). I am presently studying how the individual professional careers and biographies are impacted by the increasing flexibility which now appears as a major characteristic of labour management.

             Shelagh Campbell is a PhD candidate and part-time lecturer in the Management Department at the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University. Her research addresses collective bargaining among professionals and evolving forms of worker representation.

              Nicole Cohen is a PhD candidate in the department of Communication and Culture at York University, where she studies political economy of media and labour. Her dissertation examines the labour struggles and organizing efforts of freelance writers in Canada. Nicole has worked as a freelance writer for various alternative and independent media, and is the co-founder and former co-editor of Shameless magazine.

             Greig de Peuter is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. In Fall 2010 he is a visiting scholar in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. He received his PhD in 2010 from Simon Fraser

University�s School of Communication, where he wrote a dissertation entitled The Contested Convergence of Precarity and Immaterial Labour. He is co-author, with Nick Dyer-Witheford, of Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), and co-editor, with Mark Cote and Richard Day, of Utopian Pedagogy: Radical

Experiments against Neoliberal Globalization (University of Toronto Press, 2007). He is also a collective member of Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry, a mobile, autonomous education project.

            Susan Durbin is a Senior Lecturer at the Business School, University of the West of England, where she is also a member of the Centre for Employment Studies Research (CESR). Susan’s research interests are in the areas of the gendering of knowledge and knowledge work; the career trajectories and networking behaviours of senior female scientists and managers and female part-time managers; equality, diversity and intersectionality and employee involvement and participation in high performance workplaces. Recent publications have appeared in Work, Employment and Society (with Jennifer Tomlinson); Human Resource Management Journal (with Andy Danford and Mike Richardson) and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (with Steve Fleetwood). Book chapters include, Who Gets to be a Knowledge Worker? in Gendering the Knowledge Economy (Palgrave Macmillan 2007) and Gender, Labour Process Theory and Intersectionality: une lisison dengereuse? (with Hazel Conley) In Working Life: renewing labour process theory (Palgrave Macmillan 2010)

Fiorito, Jack

             Jack Fiorito, Ph.D., is the J. Frank Dame Professor of Management at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida and a Principal Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire Business School. He previously served on the faculties of the University of Iowa, Oklahoma State University, the University of Illinois, and as a Visiting Professor at the University of Stirling, Scotland. As a student, he studied economics and industrial relations at the University of Illinois where he earned a B.S. (with honors) in Economics, and an A.M. and Ph.D. in Labor and Industrial Relations. At Florida State University, Jack teaches or has recently taught courses on negotiation and conflict management, labor and industrial relations, data analysis and interpretation, and research design. Jack's research interests include employee attitudes toward jobs, employing organizations, and unions, unions as organizations, and effects of human resource management policies on employee attitudes. Current projects focus on union activism, union organizing, and union renewal in the UK and US. He has authored or co-authored over 50 refereed journal articles and book chapters, and co-edited two books, including the Sage Handbook of Industrial Relations. He has presented his work at professional meetings on numerous occasions. He has served as an editorial board member for the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Management, and Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, and as an ad hoc referee for scores of manuscripts for various journals. He is presently an Associate Editor for Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Jack also currently serves as the President of the United Faculty of Florida's faculty union Chapter at Florida State University.

             Laurence Léa Fontaine est professeure au Département des sciences juridiques, de l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Titulaire d’une formation en droit du travail et de l’emploi, sanctionnée par un doctorat de l’Université de Montréal et un doctorat de l’Université des sciences sociales - Capitole (Toulouse, France), et d’un post-doctorat en relations industrielles, elle oriente sa recherche sur les relations collectives du travail et surtout la représentation collective des travailleurs syndiqués et non syndiqués. Membre du Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail [CRIMT], elle est l’auteure ou coauteure de plusieurs textes scientifiques, dont un traité de Droit des rapports collectifs du travail au Québec (avec pr. Michel Coutu et Me Georges Marceau), deux chapitres de l’Encyclopédie Jurisclasseur Droit du travail, ansi que des textes de vulgarisation. La professeure Fontaine est, en outre, impliquée dans plusieurs groupes communautaires montréalais. Pour une bibliographie complète, voir : www.juris.uqam.ca.

        Judy Haiven came to Saint Mary's University from Saskatoon in 2000. Much of her writing and research is in the area of human resource management and industrial relations. Lately her research has focused on topics such as low paid workers, the right to strike for health care workers and people management in charitable organizations.

 Before becoming an academic, Dr Haiven had a variety of careers. She has been a journalist, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and a writer. Prior to joining Saint Mary's, Dr Haiven ran her own firm, Better Workplaces Consulting, which offered services in human resources management and training especially in nonprofit and government organizations.

             Max Haiven is currently working as a post-doctoral fellow in the department of sociology and anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His research focuses broadly on the politics and sociology of the imagination under contemporary capitalism. Currently, he is involved in an intensive qualitative and experimental research project on the radical imagination with Halifax social movements. Elsewhere he has written on the role of the imagination in the financialization of society, the cultural politics of Wal-Mart, and the uses and abuses of current discourses of "creativity." His work can be found at http://maxhaiven.com

         Larry Haiven is a professor in the Department of Management at Saint Mary's University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.  He specializes in industrial relations and labour market issues, especially concerning artists, professionals and the self-employed and in the ways that workers act in collectivities to improve their professional and market conditions – such as unions, professional societies, guilds, copyright collectives and co-operatives.  Prof. Haiven is also director of the Saint Mary's University Master of Management - Co-operatives and Credit Unions.

             Professor Hannah has been at Middle Tennessee State University 18 years, beginning as director of MTSU’s Center for Economic Education.  From 2005 to 2008 he served as the resident College of Business faculty member in MTSU”s Honors College, where he continues to teach honors courses in macroeconomics, economics and culture, and is currently developing a new course on Nobel Prize winners Muhammad Yunus, James Buchanan, and Al Gore.  Teaching experience includes undergraduate to Ph.D., with graduate courses focusing on labor economics, and the economics of education.  He has taught in a variety of technical environments: satellite, TV recording studio, online, hybrid, and international locations—China and France.  Current teaching focuses on macroeconomics principles and an MBA course in managerial economics. Recent research activity is directed toward non-compete agreements.  International interests include Canada, especially the significance of global warming and First Nations policies, and Bangladesh, with more immediate efforts involving a cooperative agreement with Chittagong University and a working relationship with Grameen Bank.

            Professor, Queen's University, Dept. of Geography.  Affiliated with graduate Industrial Relations program in the School of Policy Studies.  Visiting appointments at the University of Sussex (1977-78), University of Wales, Swansea and UWIST (1985-86) and the University of Manchester (1999).  Invited Visiting Professor, Institute of Political Economy,  Carleton University (2007).    Prof. Holmes publishes widely on issues of industrial and work restructuring.

            France Houle has been a member of the Québec Bar since 1989 and Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Montreal where she teaches administrative law, immigration law and global administrative law.  Before joining the Faculty in 1999, she worked as a legal counsel at the Immigration and Refugee Board and as a researcher and lobbyist at the Canadian Bar Association where she was in charge of the Immigration Law Section.  She is currently a member of the Committee on Immigration Law of the Québec Bar and has acted as spokesperson to present the submission of the Bar on Bill C-11, modifying the refugee determination process. She is a member of the Inter-University Research Centre on Globalisation and Work (CRIMT: http://www.crimt.org).    Lastly, she is the founder of the Immigration Section of the Network on Transnational Dynamics and Collective Action (REDTAC-Immigration:  http://www.cerium.ca/REDTAC-IM-MIGRATION). Since 2006, her research interests focuses on the reforms to regulatory systems and processes.  To this end, she is particularly interested by the implementation of the Cabinet Directive on Streamlining Regulation, by the mutations of public law and the emergence of global administrative law.  Her research remains, however, linked to immigration law and the mobility of immigrant workers.

PAUL JONES is a Professional Officer with the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT). Before joining CAUT he practiced law at an Ottawa union‑side labour law firm. Prior to his career as a lawyer, Paul worked for a variety of environmental and community organizations, including the Ontario Public Interest Group. At CAUT the focus of his work is public policy matters, with particular emphasis on research ethics, scholarly communication and intellectual property issues.  He is also the Professional Officer assigned to the CAUT Librarians Committee.

            Marie-Josée Legault teaches labor relations and labor studies at Téluq-Université du Québec à Montréal; her fields of research include highly qualified professional workers in the knowledge economy and their working conditions, project management as a model for the organization of work, its consequences and gender effects, and the theoretical consequences for the classical labor relations models.

 Gina Neff is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. She is co-editor of Surviving the New Economy (Paradigm Press, 2007) and author of the forthcoming book Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries (MIT Press, 2011), which traces the change in U.S. employment structures through the experience of the early pioneers of the commercial internet. Her research focuses on organizational dynamics in the face of technological change in areas such as green commercial architecture and new media industries. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University, where she is now an external faculty affiliate at the Center on Organizational Innovation.

Sue Newell, Cammarata Professor of Management, Bentley University, USA and Professor of Information Management,  Warwick University, UK.

Research by Sue Newell focuses on innovation, specifically, on understanding how knowledge is transferred and innovation fostered within and across organizations. Much of her work has taken place at ikon, a research unit for innovation, knowledge and organizational networking that she co-founded at the University of Warwick in the U.K.

 In addition, Professor Newell pursues research in the design, implementation and use of IT; ethics and social responsibility issues, including equal opportunity; and the evaluation of management development initiatives. Her corporate consulting experience includes engagements in industries from health care to pharmaceuticals to manufacturing. Professor Newell has written on knowledge management and the evolving workplace in two books, Managing Knowledge Work and Creating the Healthy Organization: Well-being, Diversity and Ethics at Work. Other credits include more than 55 articles written for journals such as Organization Studies, Human Relations, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management, Personnel Review, Communications of the CACM and Journal of Strategic Information Systems. Professor Newell is on the faculty of the Information Management at Warwick Business School, Warwick university, UK and holds a PhD from Cardiff University in Wales.

             The focus of my program of research is work, work organization, and gendered processes.  My research projects span a variety of institutional arrangements and historical moments -  from trade union activism during the Cold War to the knowledge work of care providers and the emotional labour of caregivers of dementia patients in today’s health care system.  In my CIHR-funded post-doctoral fellowship, I investigated how members of multi-disciplinary health care teams exchange, create, and apply their knowledge in the context of their collective clinical decision-making. My recent interests include using arts-based participatory research methods to co-create improved working conditions and quality of life.  Recently, I was awarded a New Investigator grant from Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation to Award to use participatory theatre with health care aides to address workplace bullying.  The study’s preliminary results indicate that solutions to workplace bullying need not come from schools of management science; they can be developed by those on the ‘shop-floor’ using the collective, creative processes of participatory theatre. www.elizabethquinlan.ca

            Pat Saunders is a PhD candidate in the interdisciplinary PhD Program, Dalhousie University. Her research interests include global migration and regulated professions; cultural capital and the integration of highly skilled immigrants to the healthcare workforce; power, race and difference in Canadian professional immigrant employment and labour policy and program evaluation theory and practice. She also works as a consultant and program developer in the area of human health resources and internationally educated health professionals and is Chair of the Canadian Evaluation Society’s Diversity Working Group.

             Sid Shniad retired in 2009 after spending nearly 30 years as the research director of the Vancouver-based Telecommunications Workers Union. He looks forward to a revival of a labour movement capable of defending the interests of its members and those of the wider society.

        After acquiring my MA in social anthropology at Dalhousie University, I moved to Edmonton in September 2010 to begin my PhD studies in sociology at the University of Alberta. My previous graduate research has focused on the challenges and insecurities that young professionals face in the engineering industry, while my future research interests revolve around the consequences of the changing organization and experience of work in Canada?s banking industry.

Professor Katherine Stone is a leading expert in labor and employment law in the United States. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in 2008 and a Russell Sage Fellowship for 2008-2009 for her work on the changing nature of employment and the regulatory implications. Her forthcoming book, Globalization and Flexibilization: The Remaking of the Employment Relationship in the 21st Century, will examine the changing employment landscape in Japan, Australia, and Europe.

 Professor Stone's recent book, From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace (Cambridge University Press in 2004) won the 2005 Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association for the “outstanding book that best links scholarship to struggles for justice in the real world." The book was also the Finalist (Second Place) for the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems.  Another book, Rethinking Comparative Labor Law: Bridging the Past and the Future (with Benjamin Aaron, eds.), was published in the fall, 2007. Earlier books by Professor Stone include Arbitration Law, 2nd edition (Foundation Press, 2009) and Private Justice: Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Law (Foundation Press, 2000).

            PhD Communication & Rhetoric (Rensselaer), MS Elec Eng (Rensselaer), BE Elect/Comm (Mangalore, India)

 My interests lie in organizational, professional and business communication; computer-mediated communication; Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and social network analysis. I conduct research in business and professional communication practices, adoption and diffusion of mediated technologies, use of CMC in such diverse areas as immigrant entrepreneurship, justice, teaching, collaborative work and learning. I also have a parallel stream of research where I have mapped the social structures and networks of important actors in the Underground Railroad Movement (like Harriet Tubman, William Still, Stephen Myers, Frederick Douglass, Gerritt Smith, etc.). My research colleagues and I are in the process of mapping the social structure of almost the entire movement in the USA and Canada.

Michel Tremblay est ingénieur chimiste, gradué de l’École polytechnique de l’Université de Montréal en 1980. Depuis, il occupe un poste d’hygiéniste industriel dans un établissement de santé publique régional en Montérégie dans l’équipe de santé-sécurité au travail. Depuis 1996, il est président de la Fédération des professionnèles-CSN. Il participe activement aux négociations du secteur public québécois. La Fédération des professionnèles-CSN est une organisation représentant notamment des professeurs d’université, des professionnels et techniciens syndiqués sur une base professionnelle.

Michel Tremblay graduated from l’École polytechnique at the University of Montreal as a chemical engineer in 1980. He holds a post as Industrial hygeniste in the occupational health and safety unit of a public health organization in the Montérégie region of Quebec. Since 1996 he has been president of the Fédération des professionnèles-CSN. The FP-CSN is an organization that represents, among others, university professors and professionals and technicians that are unionized on the basis of their profession.

             Johanna Weststar is an Assistant Professor at Saint Mary's University. She obtained her PhD from the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources at the University of Toronto in 2007. Johanna's thesis work on underemployment won the 2009 International Alliance of Human Resources Research Best Dissertation Award and has been published in Industrial Relations and the British Journal of Industrial Relations. Johanna has also published about union renewal and about labour trusteeship on pension boards. Her current research interests are representation and human resource issues in the video game industry.