Tony Winson (M.A., Ph.D., University of Toronto) taught at Saint Mary's University and the University of Western Ontario before joining the University of Guelph. He has been writing on agriculture, food and rural development issues related to Canada and the Third World for more than twenty years...
Vivian Shalla
I joined the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph in 2001. I earned my M.Sc. from the University of Montréal and my Ph.D. from Carleton University, both in Sociology. Prior to joining the University of Guelph, I taught at the University of Ottawa and at Carleton University. I also worked as a senior policy researcher with the Library of Parliament and with a national not-for-profit organization in Ottawa.
Current Project(s):
My areas of interest include: the transformation of work and labour markets; women's work and employment; working time and balancing work and family; work in the post-industrial economy; professional workplaces; globalization and economic restructuring; the regulation of labour and changing industrial relations; workplace health and safety; occupations and professions; training and education; Canadian political economy; class and gender relations; inequality, stratification and power; social policy and welfare state transformation; and Canadian society.
Three of my current projects focus on:
- The changing nature of work in the Canadian airline industry in the context of deregulation and liberalization in civil aviation;
- The impact of economic restructuring on working time, and how the new working time realities impinge on workers' ability to balance paid work and family/community responsibilities;
- The nature of women's work in the teaching profession, focusing on growing precariousness, well-being and retirement.
Selected Publications:
Shalla, Vivian and Wallace Clement (eds.). Work in Tumultuous Times: Critical Perspectives. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2007.
Shalla, Vivian."Theoretical Reflections on Work: A Quarter Century of Critical Thinking," in Vivian Shalla and Wallace Clement (eds.), Work in Tumultuous Times: Critical Perspectives. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2007.
Shalla, Vivian. "Shifting Temporalities: Economic Restructuring and the Politics of Working Time," in Vivian Shalla and Wallace Clement (eds.), Work in Tumultuous Times: Critical Perspectives. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2007.
Shalla, Vivian (ed.). Working in a Global Era: Canadian Perspectives. Canadian Scholars' Press. 2006.
Shalla, Vivian. "Time Warped: The Flexibilization and Maximization of Flight Attendant Working Time," Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 41, No. 3, 2004, pp. 345-368.
Shalla, Vivian. "Part-Time Shift: The Struggle over the Casualization of Airline Customer Sales
and Service Agent Work," Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 40, No. 1, February 2003, pp. 93-109.
Email:
vshalla@uoguelph.ca Phone:
52195
Office Number:
608