Christopher Huxley, B.A. (York, England), M.A. (Simon Fraser), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Professor Emeritus
Departments of International Development Studies (IDS) and Sociology
Trent University
1600 West Bank Drive
Peterborough, Ontario K9J 7B8
Canada
(705) 748-1339 IDS Department
(519) 252-4695 home
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Research Interests
International labour studies, comparative labour movements, labour politics, global trade unions, union education and research, Europe, North America and Latin America
Visiting Research Fellowships
2000-08. Visiting Research Fellow, Douglas A. Fraser Center for Workplace Issues, Wayne State University (WSU)
1998-99. Canada-U.S. Visiting Faculty Fulbright Fellow, Labor Studies Center, WSU
1993-94. Visiting Humanities Fellow, University of Windsor
1982. Visiting Fellow, Industrial Relations Research Unit, University of Warwick
Selected Publications
Book
1997. Just Another Car Factory? Lean Production and Its Discontents.Ithaca, NY: ILR-Cornell University Press (with J. Rinehart and D. Robertson).
Articles and Book Chapters
2005. “Teamworking in the U.S. Motor Vehicle Supplier Sector: Strategies and Effects on Manufacturing Performance and Worker Outcomes.” Pp.405-440 in F. Garibaldo and A. Bardi (eds.), Company Strategies and Organisational Evolution in the Automotive Sector: A Worldwide Perspective. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (with W. N. Cooke and D. Meyer).
2003. "Local Union Responses to Continental Standardization of Production and Work in GM's North American Truck Assembly Plants." Pp.223-247 in W. N. Cooke (ed.), Multinational Companies and Global Human Resource Strategies. Westport CT: Quorum Books, Greenwood Publishing Group.
2002. “L’industria americana dei fornitori di componentistica nel settoreautomotive: analisi delle strategie perseguite.” Pp.139-163 in C. Maestrali (ed.), Il futuro della catena di sub-fornitura atomobilistica Torinese nello scenario internazionale. Provincia di Torino and the Fondazione Istituto per il Lavoro (with W. N. Cooke and D. Meyer).
1996. “Trade Unions in North America since 1945: A Comparison." Pp.148-165 in D. Avery and R. Hall (eds.), Coming of Age: Readings in Canadian History since World War II. Toronto: Harcourt Brace, (with D. Kettler and J. Struthers). Reprinted from S. M. Lipset (ed.), Unions in Transition: Entering the Second Century. San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1986.
1996. "CAW, Worker Commitment, and Labor-Management Relations under Lean Production at CAMI." Pp.101-123 in W. C. Green and E. J. Yanarella (eds.), North American Auto Unions in Crisis: Lean Production as Contested Terrain. Albany: State University of New York Press (with J. Rinehart and D. Robertson).
1995. "Team Concept at CAMI." Pp.220-234 in S. Babson (ed.), Lean Work: Empowerment and Exploitation in the Global Auto Industry. Detroit: Wayne State University Press (with D. Robertson and J. Rinehart).
1995. "Le travail en équipe et le kaizen. Une application dans l'industrie automobile canadienne: le cas CAMI." Pp.139-165 in D.-G. Tremblay (ed.), Concertation et performance économique: vers de nouveaux modeles? Actes du 12e Colloque de l'Association d'économie politique. Sainte-Foy: Presses de l'Université du Québec (with D. Robertson, J. Rinehart and H. Rosenthal).
1994. "Worker Commitment and Labour Management Relations under Lean Production at CAMI," Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, 49, 4: 747-769 (with J. Rinehart and D. Robertson).
1994. "Reunifying Conception and Execution of Work under Japanese Production Management? A Canadian Case Study." Pp.152-174 in T. Elger and C. Smith (eds.). Global Japanization? The Transnational Transformation of the Labour Process. London: Routledge (with J. Rinehart, D. Robertson and J. Wareham).
1993. "CAMI: Die kanadische Erfahrung." Pp.81-85 in B. Luthje and C. Scherrer (eds.), Jenseits des Sozialpakts: Neue Unternehmensstrategien, Gewerkschaften und Arbeitskampfe in den USA. Munster:Westfalisches Dampfboot (with D. Robertson and J. Rinehart).
1992. "Team Concept and Kaizen: Japanese Production Management in a Unionized Canadian Auto Plant," Studies in Political Economy 39, Autumn: 77-107 (with D. Robertson, J. Rinehart and the CAW Research Group on CAMI).
1992. "Preparing the Anti-War Movement for a New Era of Disorder." Pp.300-314 in M. Briemberg (ed.), It Was, It Was Not: Essays and Art on the War Against Iraq.Vancouver: New Star Books (with C. Gannagé).
1990. "Unionization and Labour Regimes in Canada and the United States: Considerations for Comparative Research," Labour/Le Travail 25, Spring:161-187 (with D. Kettler and J. Struthers).
Teaching and Course Development
1992-94 and 2005-09. Program Director: Trent in Ecuador.
Instructor for Canadian Auto Workers (now Unifor)-McMaster University Labour Studies Certificate Program.
Currently developing an online, self-paced course “Labour and Politics.”