Work and the Economy
Faculty in this area study inequality in work arrangements within the context of the changing nature of work and the economy. Areas of study include professional work and the process of professionalization and regulation, gender and work, the interplay between structural factors and individual agency in school-work transitions, job-stress, disability accommodation and precarious employment arrangements, retirement and occupational pensions, and work and aging.
Research Stories
Current Projects
- Professional gaming and work: Challenges, trajectories, and labour market impacts amongst professional gamers
Tracey Adams, Michael Haight, Anabel Quan-Haasetopicswork, professions, video gaming, labour market
- Employment readiness and skills gaps among adolescents with and without disabilities
Sally Lindsay, Tracey Adams, Shauna Kingsnorth, Carolyn McDougalltopicsadolescents with disabilities, skills, training, education to work transitions
- Examining the idea of 'Success'
Lauren Barrtopicsideology, identity, success
- Women's Experiences in Small IT Firms in Canada
Erin Demaiter, Tracey Adamstopicswork and occupations, gender, discrimination
- Regulating Professions in Canada
Tracey Adamstopicswork and occupations, regulation, professional status
- Who Gets Regulated? Making sense of the Regulation of Alternate Health Professions in Canada
Tracey Adamstopicswork and occupations, regulation, alternative health professions
- Inter-professional Care Teams: a London Case Study
Tracey Adamstopicswork and occupations, health care workers, interprofessional teams, collaboration, re-socialization
Completed Projects
- Workforce Aging in the New Economy
Julie McMullintopicsaging workforce, global economies, information technology, employment
Faculty Experts in Work and the Economy
Tracey Adams, Professor
- Work
- Professions
- Regulation of professions in Canada
- Social inequality
- Gendered professions
- Health professions
David Calnitsky, Assistant Professor
- Economic Sociology
- Inequality
- Gender
- Work
- Poverty
- Social policy
SSC 5402
dcalnits@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Patrick Denice, Assistant Professor
Graduate Chair, Department of Sociology
- Social inequality, social stratification, and mobility
- Life course
- Education
- Labour markets
- Union and non-union influences on wages
SSC 5407
519-661-2111 x85725
pdenice@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Michael Haan, Associate Professor
Director, Statistics Canada Research Data Centre at Western
- Demography
- Immigrant settlement
- Labour market integration
- Migration
- Data development
- Longitudinal data analysis
Wolfgang Lehmann, Professor
Assistant Dean, Student Experience, Faculty of Social Science
- Social inequality
- Social class
- Sociology of work
- Higher education
- Vocational education
- School-work transitions
SSC 5430
519-661-2111 x85385
wlehmann@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Kaitlynn Mendes, Associate Professor
- Gender inequality
- Social media
- Sexual violence
- Youth
- Mixed methods research
SSC 5415
519-661-2111 x87356
kaitlynn.mendes@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Kim Shuey, Professor
- Health and disability across the life course
- Transmission of health across generations
- Precarious employment, work and health
- Environmental sociology.
SSC 5426
519-661-2111 x85135
kshuey@uwo.ca
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Sean Waite, Associate Professor
- Social inequality
- Gender inequality
- Higher education outcomes
- LGBTQ and the labour market
- LGBTQ identity, poverty and health
- Criminology and deviance
