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Mark P Thomas
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Professor
Office: Vari Hall, 2060
Phone: (416) 736-5015
Email: mpthomas@yorku.ca
Mark P. Thomas is Professor in the Department of Sociology. He is former Director of the Global Labour Research Centre at York, and has been a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University, and a Visiting Researcher at Institut de Recherches Sociologiques, Université de Genève. Current areas of research include: working time and new technologies; labour, austerity, and populism in urban North America; and the enforcement of employment standards legislation in Canada. Thomas is the author of Regulating Flexibility: The Political Economy of Employment Standards (McGill-Queens, 2009) and co-author of Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues, 4rd Edition (Canadian Scholars Press, forthcoming 2025) and Closing the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap: Improving Protections for People in Precarious Jobs (University of Toronto Press, 2020). He is co-editor of several volumes including Change and Continuity: Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019) and Power and Everyday Practices, 2nd Edition (University of Toronto Press, 2019). His work has also been published in journals including Antipode, Economic & Industrial Democracy, Economic & Labour Relations Review, Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Labor & Society, Labor Studies Journal, Labour/Le Travail, and Studies in Political Economy.
Degrees
Ph.D., Sociology, York UniversityM.A., Sociology, University of Guelph
B.A. Honours, Political Science and Sociology, Carleton University
Appointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesResearch Interests
Sociology
, Employment and Labour, Economic Sociology, Political Economy
Current Research Projects
mpthomas
Clocked In – Work, Time, and Technology in the Digital Economy
-
Summary:
Working time patterns in contemporary labour markets. The ways in which new technologies are reshaping the organization of working time. Currently funded through a SSHRC Insight Grant.
See more
Role:
Principal investigator
Spaces of Labour in Moments of Urban Populism
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Summary:
An analysis of the rise of populism in the context of austerity politics in North America. The implications for labour movements in terms of engagement with forms of both left- and right-wing populism. Currently funded through a SSHRC Insight Grant.
See more
Role:
Co-investigator
Books
Publication
Year
Thomas, Mark P., Adam D.K. King, and Andrew Jackson, (forthcoming 2025) Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues. 4th Edition. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press.
2025
Vosko, Leah F., Guliz Akkaymak, Rebecca Casey, Shelley Condratto, John Grundy, Alan Hall, Alice Hoe, Kiran Mirchandani, Andrea M. Noack, Urvashi Soni-Sinha, Mercedes Steedman, Mark P. Thomas, Eric M. Tucker (2020) Closing the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap: Improving Protections for People in Precarious Jobs. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2020
Thomas, Mark P., Leah Vosko, Carlo Fanelli, and Olena Lyubchenko (eds.) (2019) Change and Continuity: Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium. Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2019
Brock, Debi, Aryn Martin, Rebecca Raby, and Mark P. Thomas (eds.) (2019) Power and Everyday Practices, 2nd Edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2019
Jackson, Andrew, and Mark P. Thomas (2017) Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues. 3rd Edition. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press.
2017
Brock, Deborah, Rebecca Raby, and Mark Thomas (eds.) (2012). Power and Everyday Practices. Toronto: Nelson.
2012
Book Chapters
Publication
Year
Tufts, Steven, and Mark P. Thomas (2022) “The Service Economy, Low-Wage Work, and the Populist Moment.” In J. Peters and D. Wells (eds.) Canadian Labour Policy and Politics: Inequality and Alternatives. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
2022
Tufts, Steven, Mark P. Thomas, and Ian MacDonald (2020) “Austerity Urbanism, Populism, and Labour.” In C. Levine-Rasky and L. Kowalchuk (eds.) We Resist: Defending the Common Ground in Hostile Times. Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 206-14.
2020
Thomas, Mark P. (2019) “Being ‘Middle Class’?” In D. Brock, A. Martin, R. Raby, and M.P. Thomas (eds.) Power and Everyday Practices, 2nd Edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2019
Thomas, Mark P. and Leah F. Vosko (2019) “Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium.” In M.P. Thomas, L.F. Vosko, C Fanelli, and O Lyubchenko (eds.) Change and Continuity: Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium. Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2019
Ross, Stephanie, and Mark P. Thomas (2019) “Organizing in Precarious Times: The Political Economy of Work and Workers’ Movements After the Great Recession.” In M.P. Thomas, L.F. Vosko, C Fanelli, and O Lyubchenko (eds.) Change and Continuity: Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium. Kingston & Montrea: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2019
Brock, Deborah, Aryn Martin, Rebecca Raby, and Mark P. Thomas (2019) “Unpacking the Centre.” In D. Brock, A. Martin, R. Raby, and M.P. Thomas (eds.) Power and Everyday Practices, 2nd Edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2019
Vosko, Leah, John Grundy, and Mark Thomas (2017) “Beyond New Governance: Improving Employment Standards Enforcement in Liberal Market Economies.” In C. Fenwick and V. Van Goethem (eds.) Regulating for Equitable and Job-Rich Growth. Geneva & Cheltenham: International Labour Organization & Edward Elgar, 63-87.
2017
Thomas, Mark (2016) “Global Unions, Global Framework Agreements and the Transnational Regulation of Labour Standards”. In Robert Lambert and Andrew Herod (eds.) Neoliberal Capitalism & Precarious Work: Ethnographies of Accommodation and Resistance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 277-302.
2016
Thomas, Mark (2016) “Producing and Contesting ‘Unfree Labour’ Through the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program.” In A. Choudry and A. Smith (eds.) Unfree Labour? Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada. Oakland: PM Press, 21-36.
2016
Thomas, Mark (2012) “Class, State and Power: Unpacking Social Relations in Contemporary Capitalism.” In D. Brock, R. Raby, and M. Thomas (eds.) Power and Everyday Practices. Toronto: Nelson, 110-132.
2012
Thomas, Mark (2012) “Employment Standards ‘Modernization’ in Canada”. In C. Warhurst, F. Carre, P. Findlay, and C. Tilly (eds.) Are Bad Jobs Inevitable? Trends, Determinants and Responses to Job Quality in the Twenty-First Century. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 224-39.
2012
Choudry, Aziz, and Mark Thomas (2012). “Organizing Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada.” In L. Savage & S. Ross (eds.) The Politics of Labour in Canada. Halifax & Winnipeg: Fernwood, 171-83.
2012
Thomas, Mark (2012) “Thinking Global: ‘The West and the Rest’.” In D. Brock, R. Raby, and M. Thomas (eds.) Power and Everyday Practices. Toronto: Nelson, 247-51.
2012
Brock, Deborah, Rebecca Raby, and Mark Thomas (2012) “Unpacking the Centre.” In D. Brock, R. Raby, and M. Thomas (eds.) Power and Everyday Practices. Toronto: Nelson, 2-10.
2012
Thomas, Mark (2011) “Global Unions, Local Labour, and the Regulation of International Labour Standards: Mapping ITF Labour Rights Strategies”. In M. Fichter, M. Serrano, and E. Xhafa (eds.) Trade Union and the Global Crisis: Labour’s Visions, Strategies and Responses. Geneva: International Labour Organization.
2011
Thomas, Mark (2011) “Regulating Labour Standards in the Global Economy: Emerging Forms of Global Governance”. In G. Teeple and S. McBride (eds.), Relations of Global Power: Neoliberal Order and Disorder. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 95-117.
2011
Thomas, Mark (2010) “Labour Migration and Temporary Work: Canada’s Foreign Worker Programs in the ‘New Economy’." In N. Pupo and M. Thomas (eds.), Interrogating the New Economy: Restructuring Work in the 21st Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 149-72.
2010
Thomas, Mark (2010) “Neoliberalism, Racialization, and the Regulation of Employment Standards”. In S. Braedley and M. Luxton (eds.) Neoliberalism and Everyday Life. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 68-89.
2010
Pupo, Norene, and Mark Thomas (2010) “Work in the New Economy: Critical Reflections”. In N. Pupo and M. Thomas (eds.) Interrogating the New Economy: Restructuring Work in the 21st Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, ix-xxii.
2010
Thomas, Mark (2008) “Labor Rights and Social Justice for Migrant Workers”. In R. Perrucci, K. Ferraro, J. Miller, and G.W. Muschert (eds.) Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2008. Knoxville, TN: Society for the Study of Social Problems, 8-15.
2008
Thomas, Mark (2008) “Working Time and Labour Control in the Toyota Production System.” In R. O’Brien (ed.) Solidarity First: Canadian Workers and Social Cohesion. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 86-105.
2008
Journal Articles
Publication
Year
Thomas, Mark P., and Rawan Abdelbaki (2024) “Tax Amazon Not Working People”: Labour and Left Populism in Seattle.” Journal of Labor and Society. (published online ahead of print, October 2024). https://doi.org/10.1163/24714607-bja10160
2024
Vosko, Leah F., Adam D.K. King, Andrea Noack, Eric Tucker, Mark P. Thomas, Timothy Gadanidis, Rebecca Casey (2024) “When Education Isn’t Enough: The Compliance Model of Labour Standards Enforcement in Canada’s Federally Regulated Private Sector.” Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal 25(2) (October): 279-318.
2024
Fanelli, Carlo, and Mark P. Thomas (2021), “Austerity Urbanism and Recreation Restructuring: Insights from Recreation Workers and Participants.” Studies in Political Economy 102(2) (September), 203-22.
2021
Thomas, Mark P., and Steven Tufts (2020) “Blue Solidarity: Police Unions, Race and Authoritarian Populism in North America.” Work, Employment & Society 34(1) 126-44.
2020
Thomas, Mark P., Shelley Condratto, Danielle Landry, and Mercedes Steedman (2020) “Flexibility for Who? Working Time, the Ontario Employment Standards Act, and the Experiences of Workers in Low-Wage and Precarious Jobs.” Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations 75(1) (March), 78-100.
2020
Thomas, Mark P. (2020) “‘For the People’? Regulating Employment Standards in an Era of Right-Wing Populism.” Studies in Political Economy 101(2) (September), 135-54.
2020
Tucker, Eric, Leah F. Vosko, Rebecca Casey, Mark P. Thomas, John Grundy, and Andrea M. Noack (2019) “Carrying Little Sticks: Is there a ‘Deterrence Gap’ in Employment Standards Enforcement in Ontario, Canada?” International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 35(1), 1-30.
2019
Thomas, Mark P., Leah F. Vosko, Eric Tucker, Mercedes Steedman, Andie Noack, John Grundy, Mary Gellatly, and Lisa Leinveer (2019) “The Employment Standards Enforcement Gap and the Overtime Pay Exemption in Ontario.” Labour/Le Travail 84 (Fall), 25-51.
2019
Vosko, Leah F., John Grundy, Rebecca Casey, Andrea M. Noack, and Mark P. Thomas (2018) “A Tattered Quilt: Exemptions and Special Rules under Ontario’s Employment Standards Act.” Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal 21 (2), 267-98.
2018
Tufts, Steven, and Mark Thomas (2017) “The Christian Labour Association of Canada: Between Company and Populist Unionism.” Labour/Le Travail: Journal of Canadian Labour Studies 80. Fall (October), 55-80.
2017
Vosko L. F., J. Grundy, E. Tucker, M. Thomas, A. Noack, R. Casey, M. Gellatly, and J. Mussell (2017) “The Compliance Model of Employment Standards Enforcement: An Evidence-based Assessment of its Efficacy in Instances of Wage Theft.” Industrial Relations Journal 48(3) May, 256-73.
2017
Thomas, Mark, and Steven Tufts (2016) “Austerity, Right Populism and the Crisis of Labour in Canada.” Antipode 48(1) January, 212-30.
2016
Vosko, Leah, John Grundy, and Mark Thomas (2016) “Challenging New Governance: Evaluating New Approaches to Employment Standards Enforcement in Common Law Jurisdictions.” Economic and Industrial Democracy 37(2) May, 373-98.
2016
Thomas, Mark, and Steve Tufts (2016) “’Enabling Dissent’: Contesting Austerity and Right-Wing Populism in Toronto, Canada.” Economic and Labour Relations Review 27(1) March, 29-45
2016
Vosko, Leah, and Mark Thomas (2014) “Confronting the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap: Exploring the Potential for Union Engagement with Employment Law in Ontario, Canada.” Journal of Industrial Relations. Vol. 56(5) November, 631-52.
2014
Tufts, Steven, and Mark Thomas (2014) “Populist Unionism Confronts Austerity in Canada.” Labor Studies Journal 39(1) March, 60-82.
2014
Choudry, Aziz, and Mark Thomas (2013) “Labour Struggles for Workplace Justice: Migrant and Immigrant Worker Organizing in Canada”. Journal of Industrial Relations 55(2) April, 212-26.
2013
Mary Gellatly, John Grundy, Kiran Mirchandani, Adam Perry, Mark Thomas and Leah Vosko (2011) “’Modernizing’ Employment Standards? Administrative Efficiency, Market Regulation, and the Production of the Illegitimate Claimant in Ontario, Canada”. Economic and Labour Relations Review 22(2).
2011
Fanelli, Carlo and Mark Thomas (2011) “Austerity, Competitiveness and Neoliberalism Redux: Ontario Responds to the Great Recession”. Socialist Studies 7(1/2), 141-70.
2011
Thomas, Mark (2011) “Global Industrial Relations? Framework Agreements and the Regulation of International Labor Standards”. Labor Studies Journal 36(2), 269-87.
2011
Thomas, Mark, and Steve Tufts (2007) “Introducing New Voices in Labour Studies in Canada.” Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society 11, 1-5.
2007
Thomas, Mark, and Tufts, Steve (eds.) (2007) New Voices in Labour Studies in Canada. Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society. Vol. 11, Fall 2007.
2007
Thomas, Mark (2007) “Toyotaism Meets the 60 Hour Work Week: Coercion, ‘Consent’ and the Regulation of Working Time.” Studies in Political Economy 80, 105-28.
2007
Thomas, Mark (2006) “Union Strategies to Re-Regulate Work Time”. Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society 9, 1-15.
2006
Thomas, Mark (2004) “Setting the Minimum: Ontario’s Employment Standards in the Postwar Years, 1944-1968.” Labour/Le Travail: Journal of Canadian Labour Studies 54, 49-82.
2004
Research Reports
Publication
Year
Vosko, Leah, John Grundy, Eric Tucker, Andrea M. Noack, Mary Gellatly, Rebecca Casey, Mark P. Thomas, Guliz Akkaymak, and Parvinder Hira-Friesen (2017) Closing the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap: An Agenda for Change.
2016
Vosko, Leah, Andrea Noack, and Mark Thomas (2016) “How Far Does the Employment Standards Act, 2000 Extend and What Are the Gaps in Coverage? An Empirical Analysis of Archival and Statistical Data”. Changing Workplaces Review. Toronto: Ministry of Labour.
2016
Vosko, Leah, John Grundy, Eric Tucker, Andrea M. Noack, Alan Hall, Mark P. Thomas, Rebecca Casey, Kiran Mirchandani, and, Guliz Akkaymak (2016) Improving Employment Standards and Their Enforcement in Ontario: A Research Brief Addressing Options Identified in the Interim Report of the Changing Workplaces Review. Submitted to Ontario Ministry of Labour
2015
Vosko, Leah, Eric Tucker, Mark Thomas, and Mary Gellatly (2011) New Approaches to Enforcement and Compliance with Labour Regulatory Standards. Prepared for the Law Commission of Ontario.
2011
Forthcoming
Publication
Year
Tufts, Steven, Mark P. Thomas, and Ian MacDonald (forthcoming) "Austerity Urbanism, Populism, and Labour.” In C. Levine-Rasky and L. Kowalchuk (eds.) We Resist: Defending the Common Ground in Hostile Times. Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2019
Vosko, Leah F., Guliz Akkaymak, Rebecca Casey, Shelley Condratto, John Grundy, Alan Hall, Alice Hoe, Kiran Mirchandani, Andrea M. Noack, Urvashi Soni-Sinha, Mercedes Steedman, Mark P. Thomas, Eric M. Tucker (forthcoming) Closing the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap: Improving Protections for People in Precarious Jobs. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Tufts, Steven, and Mark P. Thomas (forthcoming) “The Service Economy, Low-Wage Work, and the Populist Moment." In J. Peters and D. Wells (eds.) Canadian Labour Policy and Politics: Inequality and Alternatives. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Mark P. Thomas is Professor in the Department of Sociology. He is former Director of the Global Labour Research Centre at York, and has been a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University, and a Visiting Researcher at Institut de Recherches Sociologiques, Université de Genève. Current areas of research include: working time and new technologies; labour, austerity, and populism in urban North America; and the enforcement of employment standards legislation in Canada. Thomas is the author of Regulating Flexibility: The Political Economy of Employment Standards (McGill-Queens, 2009) and co-author of Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues, 4rd Edition (Canadian Scholars Press, forthcoming 2025) and Closing the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap: Improving Protections for People in Precarious Jobs (University of Toronto Press, 2020). He is co-editor of several volumes including Change and Continuity: Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019) and Power and Everyday Practices, 2nd Edition (University of Toronto Press, 2019). His work has also been published in journals including Antipode, Economic & Industrial Democracy, Economic & Labour Relations Review, Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Labor & Society, Labor Studies Journal, Labour/Le Travail, and Studies in Political Economy.
Degrees
Ph.D., Sociology, York UniversityM.A., Sociology, University of Guelph
B.A. Honours, Political Science and Sociology, Carleton University
Appointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesResearch Interests
Sociology
, Employment and Labour, Economic Sociology, Political Economy
Current Research Projects
mpthomas
Clocked In – Work, Time, and Technology in the Digital Economy
-
Summary:
Working time patterns in contemporary labour markets. The ways in which new technologies are reshaping the organization of working time. Currently funded through a SSHRC Insight Grant.
Project Type: FundedRole: Principal investigator
Spaces of Labour in Moments of Urban Populism
-
Summary:
An analysis of the rise of populism in the context of austerity politics in North America. The implications for labour movements in terms of engagement with forms of both left- and right-wing populism. Currently funded through a SSHRC Insight Grant.
Project Type: FundedRole: Co-investigator
All Publications
Book Chapters
Publication
Year
Tufts, Steven, and Mark P. Thomas (2022) “The Service Economy, Low-Wage Work, and the Populist Moment.” In J. Peters and D. Wells (eds.) Canadian Labour Policy and Politics: Inequality and Alternatives. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
2022
Tufts, Steven, Mark P. Thomas, and Ian MacDonald (2020) “Austerity Urbanism, Populism, and Labour.” In C. Levine-Rasky and L. Kowalchuk (eds.) We Resist: Defending the Common Ground in Hostile Times. Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 206-14.
2020
Thomas, Mark P. (2019) “Being ‘Middle Class’?” In D. Brock, A. Martin, R. Raby, and M.P. Thomas (eds.) Power and Everyday Practices, 2nd Edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2019
Thomas, Mark P. and Leah F. Vosko (2019) “Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium.” In M.P. Thomas, L.F. Vosko, C Fanelli, and O Lyubchenko (eds.) Change and Continuity: Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium. Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2019
Ross, Stephanie, and Mark P. Thomas (2019) “Organizing in Precarious Times: The Political Economy of Work and Workers’ Movements After the Great Recession.” In M.P. Thomas, L.F. Vosko, C Fanelli, and O Lyubchenko (eds.) Change and Continuity: Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium. Kingston & Montrea: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2019
Brock, Deborah, Aryn Martin, Rebecca Raby, and Mark P. Thomas (2019) “Unpacking the Centre.” In D. Brock, A. Martin, R. Raby, and M.P. Thomas (eds.) Power and Everyday Practices, 2nd Edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2019
Vosko, Leah, John Grundy, and Mark Thomas (2017) “Beyond New Governance: Improving Employment Standards Enforcement in Liberal Market Economies.” In C. Fenwick and V. Van Goethem (eds.) Regulating for Equitable and Job-Rich Growth. Geneva & Cheltenham: International Labour Organization & Edward Elgar, 63-87.
2017
Thomas, Mark (2016) “Global Unions, Global Framework Agreements and the Transnational Regulation of Labour Standards”. In Robert Lambert and Andrew Herod (eds.) Neoliberal Capitalism & Precarious Work: Ethnographies of Accommodation and Resistance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 277-302.
2016
Thomas, Mark (2016) “Producing and Contesting ‘Unfree Labour’ Through the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program.” In A. Choudry and A. Smith (eds.) Unfree Labour? Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada. Oakland: PM Press, 21-36.
2016
Thomas, Mark (2012) “Class, State and Power: Unpacking Social Relations in Contemporary Capitalism.” In D. Brock, R. Raby, and M. Thomas (eds.) Power and Everyday Practices. Toronto: Nelson, 110-132.
2012
Thomas, Mark (2012) “Employment Standards ‘Modernization’ in Canada”. In C. Warhurst, F. Carre, P. Findlay, and C. Tilly (eds.) Are Bad Jobs Inevitable? Trends, Determinants and Responses to Job Quality in the Twenty-First Century. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 224-39.
2012
Choudry, Aziz, and Mark Thomas (2012). “Organizing Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada.” In L. Savage & S. Ross (eds.) The Politics of Labour in Canada. Halifax & Winnipeg: Fernwood, 171-83.
2012
Thomas, Mark (2012) “Thinking Global: ‘The West and the Rest’.” In D. Brock, R. Raby, and M. Thomas (eds.) Power and Everyday Practices. Toronto: Nelson, 247-51.
2012
Brock, Deborah, Rebecca Raby, and Mark Thomas (2012) “Unpacking the Centre.” In D. Brock, R. Raby, and M. Thomas (eds.) Power and Everyday Practices. Toronto: Nelson, 2-10.
2012
Thomas, Mark (2011) “Global Unions, Local Labour, and the Regulation of International Labour Standards: Mapping ITF Labour Rights Strategies”. In M. Fichter, M. Serrano, and E. Xhafa (eds.) Trade Union and the Global Crisis: Labour’s Visions, Strategies and Responses. Geneva: International Labour Organization.
2011
Thomas, Mark (2011) “Regulating Labour Standards in the Global Economy: Emerging Forms of Global Governance”. In G. Teeple and S. McBride (eds.), Relations of Global Power: Neoliberal Order and Disorder. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 95-117.
2011
Thomas, Mark (2010) “Labour Migration and Temporary Work: Canada’s Foreign Worker Programs in the ‘New Economy’." In N. Pupo and M. Thomas (eds.), Interrogating the New Economy: Restructuring Work in the 21st Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 149-72.
2010
Thomas, Mark (2010) “Neoliberalism, Racialization, and the Regulation of Employment Standards”. In S. Braedley and M. Luxton (eds.) Neoliberalism and Everyday Life. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 68-89.
2010
Pupo, Norene, and Mark Thomas (2010) “Work in the New Economy: Critical Reflections”. In N. Pupo and M. Thomas (eds.) Interrogating the New Economy: Restructuring Work in the 21st Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, ix-xxii.
2010
Thomas, Mark (2008) “Labor Rights and Social Justice for Migrant Workers”. In R. Perrucci, K. Ferraro, J. Miller, and G.W. Muschert (eds.) Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2008. Knoxville, TN: Society for the Study of Social Problems, 8-15.
2008
Thomas, Mark (2008) “Working Time and Labour Control in the Toyota Production System.” In R. O’Brien (ed.) Solidarity First: Canadian Workers and Social Cohesion. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 86-105.
2008
Books
Publication
Year
Thomas, Mark P., Adam D.K. King, and Andrew Jackson, (forthcoming 2025) Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues. 4th Edition. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press.
2025
Vosko, Leah F., Guliz Akkaymak, Rebecca Casey, Shelley Condratto, John Grundy, Alan Hall, Alice Hoe, Kiran Mirchandani, Andrea M. Noack, Urvashi Soni-Sinha, Mercedes Steedman, Mark P. Thomas, Eric M. Tucker (2020) Closing the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap: Improving Protections for People in Precarious Jobs. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2020
Thomas, Mark P., Leah Vosko, Carlo Fanelli, and Olena Lyubchenko (eds.) (2019) Change and Continuity: Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium. Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2019
Brock, Debi, Aryn Martin, Rebecca Raby, and Mark P. Thomas (eds.) (2019) Power and Everyday Practices, 2nd Edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2019
Jackson, Andrew, and Mark P. Thomas (2017) Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues. 3rd Edition. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press.
2017
Brock, Deborah, Rebecca Raby, and Mark Thomas (eds.) (2012). Power and Everyday Practices. Toronto: Nelson.
2012
Journal Articles
Publication
Year
Thomas, Mark P., and Rawan Abdelbaki (2024) “Tax Amazon Not Working People”: Labour and Left Populism in Seattle.” Journal of Labor and Society. (published online ahead of print, October 2024). https://doi.org/10.1163/24714607-bja10160
2024
Vosko, Leah F., Adam D.K. King, Andrea Noack, Eric Tucker, Mark P. Thomas, Timothy Gadanidis, Rebecca Casey (2024) “When Education Isn’t Enough: The Compliance Model of Labour Standards Enforcement in Canada’s Federally Regulated Private Sector.” Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal 25(2) (October): 279-318.
2024
Fanelli, Carlo, and Mark P. Thomas (2021), “Austerity Urbanism and Recreation Restructuring: Insights from Recreation Workers and Participants.” Studies in Political Economy 102(2) (September), 203-22.
2021
Thomas, Mark P., and Steven Tufts (2020) “Blue Solidarity: Police Unions, Race and Authoritarian Populism in North America.” Work, Employment & Society 34(1) 126-44.
2020
Thomas, Mark P., Shelley Condratto, Danielle Landry, and Mercedes Steedman (2020) “Flexibility for Who? Working Time, the Ontario Employment Standards Act, and the Experiences of Workers in Low-Wage and Precarious Jobs.” Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations 75(1) (March), 78-100.
2020
Thomas, Mark P. (2020) “‘For the People’? Regulating Employment Standards in an Era of Right-Wing Populism.” Studies in Political Economy 101(2) (September), 135-54.
2020
Tucker, Eric, Leah F. Vosko, Rebecca Casey, Mark P. Thomas, John Grundy, and Andrea M. Noack (2019) “Carrying Little Sticks: Is there a ‘Deterrence Gap’ in Employment Standards Enforcement in Ontario, Canada?” International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 35(1), 1-30.
2019
Thomas, Mark P., Leah F. Vosko, Eric Tucker, Mercedes Steedman, Andie Noack, John Grundy, Mary Gellatly, and Lisa Leinveer (2019) “The Employment Standards Enforcement Gap and the Overtime Pay Exemption in Ontario.” Labour/Le Travail 84 (Fall), 25-51.
2019
Vosko, Leah F., John Grundy, Rebecca Casey, Andrea M. Noack, and Mark P. Thomas (2018) “A Tattered Quilt: Exemptions and Special Rules under Ontario’s Employment Standards Act.” Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal 21 (2), 267-98.
2018
Tufts, Steven, and Mark Thomas (2017) “The Christian Labour Association of Canada: Between Company and Populist Unionism.” Labour/Le Travail: Journal of Canadian Labour Studies 80. Fall (October), 55-80.
2017
Vosko L. F., J. Grundy, E. Tucker, M. Thomas, A. Noack, R. Casey, M. Gellatly, and J. Mussell (2017) “The Compliance Model of Employment Standards Enforcement: An Evidence-based Assessment of its Efficacy in Instances of Wage Theft.” Industrial Relations Journal 48(3) May, 256-73.
2017
Thomas, Mark, and Steven Tufts (2016) “Austerity, Right Populism and the Crisis of Labour in Canada.” Antipode 48(1) January, 212-30.
2016
Vosko, Leah, John Grundy, and Mark Thomas (2016) “Challenging New Governance: Evaluating New Approaches to Employment Standards Enforcement in Common Law Jurisdictions.” Economic and Industrial Democracy 37(2) May, 373-98.
2016
Thomas, Mark, and Steve Tufts (2016) “’Enabling Dissent’: Contesting Austerity and Right-Wing Populism in Toronto, Canada.” Economic and Labour Relations Review 27(1) March, 29-45
2016
Vosko, Leah, and Mark Thomas (2014) “Confronting the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap: Exploring the Potential for Union Engagement with Employment Law in Ontario, Canada.” Journal of Industrial Relations. Vol. 56(5) November, 631-52.
2014
Tufts, Steven, and Mark Thomas (2014) “Populist Unionism Confronts Austerity in Canada.” Labor Studies Journal 39(1) March, 60-82.
2014
Choudry, Aziz, and Mark Thomas (2013) “Labour Struggles for Workplace Justice: Migrant and Immigrant Worker Organizing in Canada”. Journal of Industrial Relations 55(2) April, 212-26.
2013
Mary Gellatly, John Grundy, Kiran Mirchandani, Adam Perry, Mark Thomas and Leah Vosko (2011) “’Modernizing’ Employment Standards? Administrative Efficiency, Market Regulation, and the Production of the Illegitimate Claimant in Ontario, Canada”. Economic and Labour Relations Review 22(2).
2011
Fanelli, Carlo and Mark Thomas (2011) “Austerity, Competitiveness and Neoliberalism Redux: Ontario Responds to the Great Recession”. Socialist Studies 7(1/2), 141-70.
2011
Thomas, Mark (2011) “Global Industrial Relations? Framework Agreements and the Regulation of International Labor Standards”. Labor Studies Journal 36(2), 269-87.
2011
Thomas, Mark, and Steve Tufts (2007) “Introducing New Voices in Labour Studies in Canada.” Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society 11, 1-5.
2007
Thomas, Mark, and Tufts, Steve (eds.) (2007) New Voices in Labour Studies in Canada. Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society. Vol. 11, Fall 2007.
2007
Thomas, Mark (2007) “Toyotaism Meets the 60 Hour Work Week: Coercion, ‘Consent’ and the Regulation of Working Time.” Studies in Political Economy 80, 105-28.
2007
Thomas, Mark (2006) “Union Strategies to Re-Regulate Work Time”. Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society 9, 1-15.
2006
Thomas, Mark (2004) “Setting the Minimum: Ontario’s Employment Standards in the Postwar Years, 1944-1968.” Labour/Le Travail: Journal of Canadian Labour Studies 54, 49-82.
2004
Research Reports
Publication
Year
Vosko, Leah, John Grundy, Eric Tucker, Andrea M. Noack, Mary Gellatly, Rebecca Casey, Mark P. Thomas, Guliz Akkaymak, and Parvinder Hira-Friesen (2017) Closing the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap: An Agenda for Change.
2016
Vosko, Leah, Andrea Noack, and Mark Thomas (2016) “How Far Does the Employment Standards Act, 2000 Extend and What Are the Gaps in Coverage? An Empirical Analysis of Archival and Statistical Data”. Changing Workplaces Review. Toronto: Ministry of Labour.
2016
Vosko, Leah, John Grundy, Eric Tucker, Andrea M. Noack, Alan Hall, Mark P. Thomas, Rebecca Casey, Kiran Mirchandani, and, Guliz Akkaymak (2016) Improving Employment Standards and Their Enforcement in Ontario: A Research Brief Addressing Options Identified in the Interim Report of the Changing Workplaces Review. Submitted to Ontario Ministry of Labour
2015
Vosko, Leah, Eric Tucker, Mark Thomas, and Mary Gellatly (2011) New Approaches to Enforcement and Compliance with Labour Regulatory Standards. Prepared for the Law Commission of Ontario.
2011
Forthcoming
Publication
Year
Tufts, Steven, Mark P. Thomas, and Ian MacDonald (forthcoming) "Austerity Urbanism, Populism, and Labour.” In C. Levine-Rasky and L. Kowalchuk (eds.) We Resist: Defending the Common Ground in Hostile Times. Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2019
Vosko, Leah F., Guliz Akkaymak, Rebecca Casey, Shelley Condratto, John Grundy, Alan Hall, Alice Hoe, Kiran Mirchandani, Andrea M. Noack, Urvashi Soni-Sinha, Mercedes Steedman, Mark P. Thomas, Eric M. Tucker (forthcoming) Closing the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap: Improving Protections for People in Precarious Jobs. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Tufts, Steven, and Mark P. Thomas (forthcoming) “The Service Economy, Low-Wage Work, and the Populist Moment." In J. Peters and D. Wells (eds.) Canadian Labour Policy and Politics: Inequality and Alternatives. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
