Peter Sawchuk Instructor, Centre for Industrial Relations Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Equity Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education E-mail:psawchuk@oise.utoronto.ca Click here for a full CV (in pdf), including all publications.   Brief CV Current Research Interests Recent Publications Courses Taught at the CIRHR

Brief CV

Current Research Interests

Peter currently leads a SSHRC research project on work, learning and technological change in the public sector in Canada, in partnership with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE-Ontario) and the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU). An earlier research project studied the role of distance education and telelearning programs as a means of labour education.

Recent Publications

Sawchuk, Peter H. (ed) (forthcoming). Work, Politics and Struggle across the Ontario Welfare System (1995-2005).

Sawchuk, Peter H. (in press). “Work and the Labour Process: ‘Use-Value' and the Re-thinking of Skills and Learning” (pp.89-106) in T. Fenwick and L. Farrell (eds.) Educating the Global Workforce: Knowledge, Knowledge Work and Knowledge Workers. New York: Kogan Page.

Sawchuk, Peter H. (ed). (in press) The Transformation of Welfare Work in Canada : Learning, and Work in the ‘New Economy' . Philadelphia , PA : John Benjamins Publishing.

Sawchuk, Peter H. (in press) “Technology in the Workplace”, in J. Bratton (ed) Organizational Behaviour: Understanding the Workplace. London : MacMillan.

Sawchuk, Peter H. (in press) “Equity in Work Organizations: Issues of Gender, Race, Disability and Class”, in J. Bratton (ed) Organizational Behaviour: Understanding the Workplace. London : MacMillan.

Sawchuk, Peter H. (in press) “Power in Work Organizations: Theory and Practice”, in J. Bratton (ed) Organizational Behaviour: Understanding the Workplace. London : MacMillan.

Sawchuk, Peter H. (forthcoming) “Educational Research and Canadian Labour Studies: Looking back and Moving Forward” Just Labour.

Sawchuk, Peter H. with Harris, C. and Kempf, A. (in preparation) “Learning Community Unionism in Canada: The Case of the UNITE-HERE Campaign and its Potential Aftermaths” Studies in Continuing Education.

Sawchuk, Peter H. and Stowe, Susan (forthcoming). “The Structure of Informal Learning: A Quantitative Analysis of Public Service Workers Coping with Organizational Change”.

Sawchuk, Peter H. (in press). “Technological Change in Public Social Services: Political Economic Dimensions of Work Design and Competing Knowledge Systems in Welfare Work Transformation” New Technology, Work and Employment.

Sawchuk, Peter H. (in press). “Understanding Diverse Outcomes for Working-Class Learning: Conceptualizing Class Consciousness as Knowledge Activity” Journal of Economic and Labour Relations.

Sawchuk, Peter H. (in press) “ ‘Use-Value' and the Re-thinking of Skills, Learning and the Labour Process” Journal of Industrial Relations. 48(5), pp.593-617.

Sawchuk, Peter H. (2006) “Labor Education and Labor Art: The Hidden Potential of Knowing for the Left Hand” Labor Studies Journal, Spring 31(2), pp.49-68 (19 pages).

Sawchuk, Peter H. (2005) “ The Impact of New Information Technologies on Paid Workplace Learning Practices and Policies” in K. Leithwood, D. Livingstone, A. Cumming, N. Bascia and A. Datnow (eds) International Handbook of Educational Policy. New York : Kluwer Publishers.

Foley, G. and Sawchuk, Peter H. (2005, April) “Social, Psychodynamic and Technological Dimensions of Informal Learning in Organizations”, Klaus Künzel (ed) International Yearbook of Adult Education. Cologne : Böhlau-Verlag .

Sawchuk, Peter H. (2003). Adult Learning and Technology in Working-Class Life. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Livingstone, D.W. and Sawchuk, Peter H. (2003). Hidden Knowledge: Organized Labour in the Information Age. Washington, D.C.: Rowman and Littlefield.

Bratton, J., Mills, J., Pyrch, T. and Sawchuk, Peter H. (2003) Workplace Learning: A Critical Introduction. Toronto: Garamond Press.

Sawchuk, Peter H. (2003, November) “Online Learning for Union Activist? Findings from a Canadian Study” Studies in Continuing Education, 25(2), pp.163-183.

Sawchuk, Peter H. (2003, November) “The ‘Unionization Effect' Amongst Adult Computer Learners” British Journal of Sociology of Education, 24(5), pp.639-648.

Sawchuk, Peter H. (with T. Hennessy) (2003, November) “ Worker Responses to Technological Change in the Canadian Public Sector: Issues of Learning and Labour Process” Journal of Workplace Learning, 15(7), pp.319-325.

Courses Taught at the CIRHR

IRE 1611H Sociology of Industrial Relations (on leave 2007-2008)