Simon Black
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Black |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Black |
| SIGNATURE | BLACK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The City Institute at York University 706 Kaneff Tower, 4700 Keele Street Toronto ON M3J 1P3 Canada |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0817-3112 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Conservation Leadership
This book is an important guide for individuals seeking to develop and grow their leadership skills in the wildlife conservation sector, across varied disciplines such as environmental management, conservation biology, and ecotourism. Conservation Leadership addresses what leadership is, why it is important, and how to be an effective leader. It identifies the common pitfalls or mistakes in a leader’s thinking or behaviour, and the unexpected con…
Approche participative de l'application des normes du travail dans le secteur du travail domestique
Les auteurs explorent le rôle des organisations de travailleurs domestiques dans l'application des normes du travail en Amérique latine et dans les Caraïbes. À partir de données qualitatives, ils étudient le cas du syndicat des travailleurs domestiques de la Jamaïque (JHWU) après la ratification de la convention n° 189 sur les travailleuses et travailleurs domestiques, 2011, et constatent que le syndicat contribue directement et indirectement à l…
Essential but not empowered
This paper focuses on the political economy of work and labour under COVID-19 in the Canadian context. It reviews the impact of the COVID crisis on employment and workers, highlighting gendered and racialized inequalities in waged and unwaged work, analyzes state responses to the crisis, and explores how organized labour has navigated COVID capitalism. It argues that, while unions have engaged in necessary defensive struggles, the labour movement…
Social Reproduction and the City
Community Unionism without the Community? Lessons from Labor-Community Coalitions in the Canadian Child Care Sector
The theory and practice of community unionism has been central to discussions of alt-labor, union renewal, and revitalization, particularly in relation to union praxis at the urban or local scale. This comparative case study explores two labor-community campaigns to defend public child care services in the context of neoliberal austerity in urban/suburban space. While labor-community coalitions are a necessary—if not sufficient—condition for succ…
Household Workers Unite
Reviewed by: Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement by Premilla Nadasen Simon Black Premilla Nadasen, Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement (Boston: Beacon Press, 2015) Within a short period of time, Premilla Nadasen has established herself as one of the most important historians of the US labour movement writing today. In Household Workers Unite:…
Street Music', Urban Ethnography and Ghettoized Communities
Hip-hop is a definitively urban movement, born in the crisis of the Fordist city and rooted in the 1970s street culture of poor and working-class African Americans and Latinos in New York City. Engaging with the contributions of Beer and Lamotte, this essay addresses two questions. Firstly, can we understand hip-hop as a politics of resistance, a social movement rooted in a claim on urban space and a practice of urban citizenship? And secondly, i…
Community Unionism
Community Unionism
Street Music', Urban Ethnography and Ghettoized Communities
Hip-hop is a definitively urban movement, born in the crisis of the Fordist city and rooted in the 1970s street culture of poor and working-class African Americans and Latinos in New York City. Engaging with the contributions of Beer and Lamotte, this essay addresses two questions. Firstly, can we understand hip-hop as a politics of resistance, a social movement rooted in a claim on urban space and a practice of urban citizenship? And secondly, i…
Essential but not empowered
This paper focuses on the political economy of work and labour under COVID-19 in the Canadian context. It reviews the impact of the COVID crisis on employment and workers, highlighting gendered and racialized inequalities in waged and unwaged work, analyzes state responses to the crisis, and explores how organized labour has navigated COVID capitalism. It argues that, while unions have engaged in necessary defensive struggles, the labour movement…
Community Unionism without the Community? Lessons from Labor-Community Coalitions in the Canadian Child Care Sector
The theory and practice of community unionism has been central to discussions of alt-labor, union renewal, and revitalization, particularly in relation to union praxis at the urban or local scale. This comparative case study explores two labor-community campaigns to defend public child care services in the context of neoliberal austerity in urban/suburban space. While labor-community coalitions are a necessary—if not sufficient—condition for succ…
Community Unionism
Street Music', Urban Ethnography and Ghettoized Communities
Hip-hop is a definitively urban movement, born in the crisis of the Fordist city and rooted in the 1970s street culture of poor and working-class African Americans and Latinos in New York City. Engaging with the contributions of Beer and Lamotte, this essay addresses two questions. Firstly, can we understand hip-hop as a politics of resistance, a social movement rooted in a claim on urban space and a practice of urban citizenship? And secondly, i…
Household Workers Unite
Reviewed by: Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement by Premilla Nadasen Simon Black Premilla Nadasen, Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement (Boston: Beacon Press, 2015) Within a short period of time, Premilla Nadasen has established herself as one of the most important historians of the US labour movement writing today. In Household Workers Unite:…
Community Unionism without the Community? Lessons from Labor-Community Coalitions in the Canadian Child Care Sector
The theory and practice of community unionism has been central to discussions of alt-labor, union renewal, and revitalization, particularly in relation to union praxis at the urban or local scale. This comparative case study explores two labor-community campaigns to defend public child care services in the context of neoliberal austerity in urban/suburban space. While labor-community coalitions are a necessary—if not sufficient—condition for succ…
Social Reproduction and the City
Essential but not empowered
This paper focuses on the political economy of work and labour under COVID-19 in the Canadian context. It reviews the impact of the COVID crisis on employment and workers, highlighting gendered and racialized inequalities in waged and unwaged work, analyzes state responses to the crisis, and explores how organized labour has navigated COVID capitalism. It argues that, while unions have engaged in necessary defensive struggles, the labour movement…
Conservation Leadership
This book is an important guide for individuals seeking to develop and grow their leadership skills in the wildlife conservation sector, across varied disciplines such as environmental management, conservation biology, and ecotourism. Conservation Leadership addresses what leadership is, why it is important, and how to be an effective leader. It identifies the common pitfalls or mistakes in a leader’s thinking or behaviour, and the unexpected con…
Approche participative de l'application des normes du travail dans le secteur du travail domestique
Les auteurs explorent le rôle des organisations de travailleurs domestiques dans l'application des normes du travail en Amérique latine et dans les Caraïbes. À partir de données qualitatives, ils étudient le cas du syndicat des travailleurs domestiques de la Jamaïque (JHWU) après la ratification de la convention n° 189 sur les travailleuses et travailleurs domestiques, 2011, et constatent que le syndicat contribue directement et indirectement à l…
Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works)