Episode Notes

Music Credits

“Let’s call the whole thing off” was performed by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It was written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin.

Research Interests

• Labour
• Unions in Canada
• Collective bargaining
• The politics of technology
• The public sector in Canada

Selected Publications

Article:  ‘New Public Management, New Technology, Who Foots the Bill?  Information Infrastructure Renewal in Ontario (1996-2003)’  in Anastakis, Dimitry and James Onusko (eds.),Ontario since Confederation (revised ed.) (Buffalo and Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, forthcoming in 2023)

Article: ‘Unequal Partnership: The Privatisation of Information Technology in Ontario.’  Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation. Spring, 2015

Book: No Justice, No Peace; the 1996 OPSEU Strike against the Harris Government in Ontario (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 1999)

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Transcript

Beth: Welcome to the Social Profs Podcast with your hosts Beth Torrens and Kristy Buccieri. This is the podcast where we attempt to turn teaching inside out by engaging in conversations outside the classroom with faculty, community members, and Trent student alumni. Our goals with these conversations are to learn more about the benefits of a criminology or sociology degree and to talk about the ways that students can get more involved at Trent and in the community. We will also do a deep dive with some Trent professors to learn more about their approaches to teaching, what drives their research, and a few fun facts you can only learn when you turn teaching inside out.