Over the past several years, I’ve researched labour issues from the academy and the labour movement.
My doctoral research used in-depth qualitative interviewing to study the formation and intergenerational reproduction of working-class identity among nickel miners in Sudbury, Ontario.
Through a post-doctoral fellowship, I participated in a collaborative research project (the Canada Labour Code-Data Analysis Infrastructure) that examined employment standards compliance and enforcement in Canada’s federal jurisdiction.
I subsequently worked as a Senior Researcher in the Social and Economic Policy Department of the Canadian Labour Congress where I regularly participated in government consultations on employment standards and related legislative reforms.
In my current role as an Assistant Professor in Labour Studies at the University of Manitoba, my research projects centre on the relationship between labour and settler colonialism. The first is a collaborative project that traces the history of the contested regulation of Indigenous labour relations through the so-called “core of Indianness,” a legal concept used to determine federal jurisdiction over Indigenous enterprises. Second, I am co-investigator on a SSHRC Partnership Grant (“Liberating Migrant Labour? International Mobility Programs in Settler-Colonial Contexts”), which critically examines temporary labour migration programs in the context of settler-colonial states (Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand).
You can access some of my publications below.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Superstack Nostalgia: Miners and Industrial Heritage in Sudbury, Ontario. Invited paper for special issue “Deindustrializing Canada/La Désindustrialisation au Canada.” Labour/Le Travail 91 (Spring 2023): 201-225.
Determining the ‘Core of Indianness:’ A Feminist Political Economy of NIL/TU,O v. BCGEU. Aboriginal Policy Studies 10, 1 (2022): 63-89 (with Veldon Coburn, Leah F. Vosko, Rebecca J. Hall, Olena Lyubchenko and Andrea M. Noack).
Precarious Design: Creative Workers’ Organizations and the Union Affiliation of the Associated Designers of Canada. Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research 32, 1 (2021): 87-110 (with Conor Moore).
A Feminist Political Economy Critique of ‘the Militant Minority.’ Work, Employment and Society 35, 3 (2021): 584-594.
Model Regulators? Investigating Reactive and Proactive Labour Standards Enforcement in Canada’s Federally-Regulated Private Sector. International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 37, 2 (2021): 161-182 (with Leah F. Vosko, Andrea M. Noack, Victoria Osten and Emily J. Clare).
Critical Reflections on the Job Guarantee Proposal. Studies in Political Economy 101, 3 (2020): 230-244.
Right-Wing Populism, Organized Labor, and White Workers in Sudbury, Ontario: A Cautionary Tale from the 2018 Ontario Election. Journal of Labor and Society 23, 4 (2020): 485-501.
When Capital comes North: The Discursive Challenges to International Solidarity among Nickel Miners in Sudbury, Ontario. Global Labour Journal 11, 3 (2020): 254-270.
Gender and Working-Class Identity in Deindustrializing Sudbury, Ontario. The Journal of Working-Class Studies 4, 2 (2019): 79-101.
The Forgotten Work of Cultural Workers. Labour/Le Travail 84 (Fall 2019): 259-278.
Memory, Mobilization, and the Social Bases of Intra-Union Division: Some Lessons from the 2009-2010 USW 6500 Strike in Sudbury, Ontario. E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies 6, 3 (2017): 53-72.
Adam D.K. King 