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David Rapaport

Adjunct Professor

B.A. (Concordia), PhD (Trent)
drapaport@trentu.ca
 

Classes That I Teach at Trent

  • SOCI2110 - Discovering Social Theory

  • SOCI2340 - Work and Social Inequalities

  • SOCI3100 - Contemporary Social Theory

  • SOCI3320 - Social Organizations

  • SOCI3820 - The Canadian Labour Movement; Class and Protest in the Digital Age 

Peer-Reviewed 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) 

Selection of Academic Presentations

May 2022. The annual meeting (on-line) of the Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies. ‘Collective Tech Worker Responses to High-Tech Companies.'

June 2021.  The annual meeting (on-line) of the Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies. ‘Collective Bargaining in a Digital Technology Age.'

June 2020.  The annual conference (on-line) of the International Labour and Employment Relations Association.  I participated in the panel 'Strikes and Lockouts: Legal Paths, Challenges and Recent Dynamics.'

January 2018.  Trent University.  The conference 'Populist Responses to Globalization.'  I participated on the academic panel. 

June 2017. Ryerson (Metropolitan Toronto) University. The annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies. ‘IT Workers, From Professional to Proletariat: Implications for Union Organizing.’ 

June 2016.  Murdoch University.  Perth, Western Australia.  School of Public Policy and International Affairs. ‘Because It Is 2016: Public Policy Issues in Canada.’ 

Community Involvement

Member, the Board of Directors of A Place Called Home, a social agency providing housing to the homeless population in Kawartha Lakes and counseling and nutritional services. 

Member, The Refugee Next Door; a joint project of the Toronto Labour Council and the Labour Community Services. 

Faculty & Research

  • Peri Ballantyne
  • Kristy Buccieri
  • Momin Rahman
  • Deborah White
  • Naomi Nichols
  • Jim Cosgrave
  • Parvinder Hira-Friesen
  • Elizabeth Torrens
  • Mary Jean Hande
  • Eugena Kwon
  • Nadiya Ali
  • David Rapaport

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