Alice de Wolff brings over 20 years of experience managing projects and organizations related to equity, employment, adult education and international development to ACE. She is well known for her ability to design and manage research and policy development projects for groups representing multiple sectors, constituencies and regions. Alice has worked across Canada and in Africa.
Pat Armstrong currently holds a CHSRF/CIHR Chair in Health Services. She is a Professor of Sociology, and has served as Chair of the Department of Sociology at York University and Director of the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University. She is a partner in the National Network on Environments and Women's Health and chairs a working group on health reform that crosses the Centre of Excellence for Women's Health. Armstrong is co-author of numerous books on health care, and she has published on a wide variety of issues related to women's work and to social policy. Her current research compares care management in Canada and the United States, relying primarily on the perspectives of those who actually provide or manage care within the system.
Nancy Zukewich
Co-lead, Statistics Stream
Nancy Zukewich is a Senior Research Analyst, Housing, Family & Social Statistics Division of Statistics Canada. She has also served as a policy analyst for Status of Women Canada. Her areas of expertise include gender statistics and analysis, labour market and income and unpaid work. In addition to numerous presentations on these topics, Nancy has also published several articles and reports, including several chapters in Women in Canada (Statistics Canada, Catalogue 89-503, 1995 and 2000).
John Anderson
John Anderson is the Vice-President, Research of the Canadian Council for Social Development. He works with CCSD's team of researchers in undertaking statistical and qualitative research projects focusing on concerns such as economic security, employment, poverty, pensions, child well-being, disability, cultural diversity and social inclusion. John is the former Director of Research and senior economist for the Centre for Social Justice and is the author of numerous research studies on social justice issues including The High Costs of Tax Cuts (1999) as well as co-editing (with Chris Schenk) two volumes of Re-Shaping Work, collections which look at technological change and workplace restructuring.
James Beaton
James Beaton is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at York University. His research interests include the restructuring of post-secondary institutions.
Valerie du Plessis
Valerie du Plessis works in the Housing, Family and Social Statistics Division of Statistics Canada.
Kate Laxer is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at York University. For her thesis, she is examining precarious employment in ancillary work in health care.
Katherine Scott is a researcher with the Canadian Council on Social Development in Ottawa. She has written extensively on labour market insecurity and families with children.
Andrew King national health and safety coordinator with the United Steel Workers of America. He has worked extensively in the field of occupational health, both as a lawyer and as a labour representative. He is also a sessional instructor on Occupational Health and Safety at McMaster University.
Wayne Lewchuk
Co-lead, Work Organization and Health Stream
Wayne Lewchuk is the former Director of the Labour Studies Programme at McMaster University, and a professor in the Labour Studies Programme and Economics Department. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors for both the Workers' Education Centre and the Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton. He is currently serving on the board of the Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Centre. He has published numerous reports on worker health and safety. His areas of expertise are the history of the automobile industry and the impact of work organisation on quality of life at work. He recently published "From Dust to Dust: Asbestos and the Struggle for Worker Health and Safety at Bendix Automotive", with Robert Storey (Labour/Le travail, 2000).
Michael Polanyi
In 2002, Michael Polanyi joined the University of Regina as a faculty researcher based at the Saskatchewan Population Health Research and Evaluation Unit (SPHERU). An Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Polanyi has an M.A. in Political Science (University of Toronto) and a PhD in Environmental Studies (York University). He has worked professionally in the areas of popular education, community development and health promotion. Polanyi was a researcher and scientist at the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto from 1995-2002. He was a Lupina Fellow in the Comparative Program on Health and Society at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto (2001-2002).
Polanyi's current research interests include: exploring the impacts of globalization on labour markets and the organization of work, with a focus on the health impacts on workers; and designing and evaluating collaborative and community-based interventions (e.g. action research and participatory research) to improve workplace and community health.
Co-Lead, Labour Laws, Legislation, and Policy Stream
Stephanie Bernstein is an Assistant Professor of Law in the Faculty of Political Science and Law of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). She conducts research on labour, social security and human rights law, in both the national and international contexts. She is currently engaged in a research project on the legal protection of precarious workers in Quebec with regard to minimum employment standards and occupational safety and health. Her recent publications include Women and Homework: The Canadian Legislative Framework (with K. Lippel and L. Lamarche; Status of Women Canada, 2000) and "Individualizing Social Risks: International and Legal Dimensions of the Privatization of Pension Schemes in Latin America" (Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 16:2 2001).
Co-Lead, Labour Laws, Legislation, and Policy Stream
Lynn Spink is a founding member of TOFFE, Toronto Organizing For Fair Employment. Since 1995, she has been an Adjunct Professor at York University's Centre for Research on Work and Society (CRWS), where she is a member of the CRWS Council. In 1994 Lynn and Mary Cornish wrote Organizing Unions, a comprehensive resource book and guide for workers interested in learning about organizing. In 1996 Lynn edited Bad Boss Stories: Workers Whose Bosses Break the Law for the Toronto-based Employment Standards Work Group. In 1997 she edited Bad Work, a review of papers from a Fraser Institute conference on 'right-to-work' laws (CRWS). Lynn has worked with both public and private sector unions on a variety of administrative, organizing and education projects. She has written the manuals for union education courses in labour history, human rights, stewards' training, economics, globalization, anti-racism, women's rights, and organizing. In 2002, she developed a one-week organizer-training course for the Canadian Labour Congress in Ontario.
Mary Gellatly
Currently employed as a community legal worker for Parkdale Community Legal Services, Mary has extensive experience in the area of workers' rights and community outreach and organization. Mary has also published several articles and developed educational materials on workers rights and employment standards.
Katherine Lippel
Katherine Lippel is Professor of Law in the Faculty of Political Science and Law of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).
Eric Tucker is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University where he teaches and writes in the areas of labour law, occupational health and safety regulation and labour history. He is the author of Administering Danger in the Workplace and, with Professor Judy Fudge, Labour Before the Law.
Pramila Aggarwal is a Professor in the Community Work Programme at George Brown College. Her areas of expertise are community development, community organizing, migration of labour, and immigrant worker issues. In addition to published work on immigration and violence against immigrant women, Pramila has also done training and educational work with community groups and labour unions.
Cynthia Cranford
Co-Lead, Association Building Stream
Cynthia Cranford is as Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at University of Toronto Mississauga. She was formerly a post-doctoral fellow on the Community-University Research Alliance on Contingent Employment. Cynthia holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Southern California. Much of her research is based within the changing urban economy of Los Angeles, focusing on shifting gender relations with economic restructuring, immigration and labour organizing. She has written about variations in women's position in the U.S. economy along the lines of race-ethnicity and citizenship. Cynthia is involved in research within the organizing, statistics and legal streams of ACE. This research involves documenting innovative organizing among temporary agency and contract workers in Toronto, examining the size and scope of precarious employment in Canada and a case study of union organizing among a group of highly precarious personal service workers.
Cynthia is also participating in the Gender and Work Database project housed in the School of Social Sciences, Atkinson Faculty, and directed by Leah Vosko. Finally, Cynthia is working on a book manuscript, based on her dissertation research, titled Organizing for Social Justice in Los Angeles: Immigrant Labour and the Politics of Gender.
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