Mohammad Ferdosi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4151933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohammad Ferdosi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohammad |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferdosi |
| SIGNATURE | FERDOSI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7954-7065 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Uneven Protection at Work During Covid-19: Union Voice, Paid Sick Leave and Safety Regimes in Ontario
Using the employed subsample of a broader Ontario-wide online survey, this article compares union and non-union experiences of COVID-19 safety in 2020. We examine infection control, paid time off, anxiety, and awareness of union advocacy, using this non-probability sample for analytic generalization rather than population estimates. In this sample, union-covered respondents more often reported visible ventilation and filtration, referenced joint …
Life Stabilisation Built on Sand: The Limits of Ontario's Integrated Employment Services
Ontario's Integrated Employment Services reform promises person‐centred assessment and ‘life stabilisation’ supports before people on social assistance are pushed towards work. This article argues that the model is structurally incapable of delivering on that promise because it layers standardised, marketised employment services onto a social assistance regime that keeps people in deep poverty and rations basic supports. Drawing on an anonymous o…
Legal Form, Employment Protection and Class Strategy in Britain and Sweden, 1963–2025
This article examines employment protection legislation in Britain from 1963 and in Sweden from its codification in the 1970s, tracing developments through 2025. It argues that dismissal law and related protections operate as legal forms through which capitalist states manage class conflict by stabilising job security for insiders while relocating insecurity to temporary, agency and other non-standard work. The article develops the concepts of ju…
Refusal power and policy credibility in Ontario’s basic income pilot
Debates about basic income often focus on hours worked. This article asks a broader question: does predictable cash help people avoid poor-quality jobs, time short study spells, and move toward better work while staying attached to employment? The article analyses 12 new, purposively sampled interviews with former recipients of Ontario’s 2017–19 basic income pilot using reflexive thematic analysis, read alongside a survey of 217 recipients and a …
I Was Trusted for Once”: Imagining More Humane Income Supports Through the Ontario Basic Income Pilot
Current social assistance programmes in Canada and beyond have been criticised for normalising the dehumanisation of recipients through policy design and implementation. In this article we look at how exposure to a form of basic income through the Ontario Basic Income Pilot (OBIP) allowed recipients to imagine a different kind of support. We report on the findings from a study in OBIP from Hamilton, Canada, thematically analysing a subset of inte…
Economic crisis, labour market reform and socio-economic outcomes in Eastern Europe
The 2008 crisis was not only regionally uneven in its economic effects but also led to uneven labour market reforms in eastern European countries. As a result, the socio-economic impact of the global financial crisis and political reactions to it varied considerably among post-communist states. Nevertheless, there have been some common trends in their macroeconomic performances, labour market reforms and welfare outcomes. These trends have import…
The Development of Employment Protection Legislation in the United Kingdom (1963-2013)
In Britain, employment protection legislation developed in ways far more dynamic, contradictory and toothless than is commonly assumed by conventional theories. Contrary to prevailing understanding, the first job security laws were intended to increase labor market flexibility, encourage mobility and undermine union power. They were introduced by Conservative governments, curiously offering organized labor some benefits, even though both sides of…
The Experiences of Social Assistance Recipients on the Ontario Basic Income Pilot
This article attempts to fill part of the research void created by the premature cancellation of the Ontario Basic Income Pilot (OBIP), reporting the results of former Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program service users who received basic income in the Hamilton region through a comparison of their experiences related to physical and mental health, food and housing security, financial security, and social and family relations. It sh…
Canada’s unemployment insurance in crisis
The past several decades in Canada have been marked by systematic attempts to restructure the federally regulated unemployment insurance system, despite growing unemployment and the need for labour market relief. Several program changes, including tightening eligibility requirements, lowering benefits, increasing administrative burdens, limiting enrolment duration and intensifying surveillance have significantly impacted the level and quality of …
The development of Swedish employment protection legislation
This article explores how and why employment protection legislation developed in Sweden in the ways that it did from its early beginnings to the present period. It hopes to offer answers to questions about the initial impetus for statutory regulation, the number and quality of significant employment protection measures adopted and the positions of stakeholders with interests in the reform decision making process. It does this by drawing on a vari…
From crisis-induced labour reforms to reform-induced social crises
In Europe, the post-2008 crisis years were marked by systematic government efforts to retrench and restructure essential workplace and labour market protections. These policy changes were designed ostensibly to bring efficiency, affordability and flexibility to national economies, thereby promoting growth and stimulating recovery. A wide range of reforms were implemented in the main European Union member states between 2008 and 2013. An examinati…
Cross-National divergence and convergence in social welfare
This article tests welfare and varieties of capitalism theories by comparing the socio-economic outcomes of 16 developed countries before and after the crisis. Utilizing nine indicators, namely inequality, low-pay, union density, unemployment, involuntary part-time work, poverty, occupational health risks, inflexible working hours and training opportunities, the extent of shared similarities and differences in social welfare across four regime-ty…
Cross-National divergence and convergence in social welfare
This article tests welfare and varieties of capitalism theories by comparing the socio-economic outcomes of 16 developed countries before and after the crisis. Utilizing nine indicators, namely inequality, low-pay, union density, unemployment, involuntary part-time work, poverty, occupational health risks, inflexible working hours and training opportunities, the extent of shared similarities and differences in social welfare across four regime-ty…
The development of Swedish employment protection legislation
This article explores how and why employment protection legislation developed in Sweden in the ways that it did from its early beginnings to the present period. It hopes to offer answers to questions about the initial impetus for statutory regulation, the number and quality of significant employment protection measures adopted and the positions of stakeholders with interests in the reform decision making process. It does this by drawing on a vari…
I Was Trusted for Once”: Imagining More Humane Income Supports Through the Ontario Basic Income Pilot
Current social assistance programmes in Canada and beyond have been criticised for normalising the dehumanisation of recipients through policy design and implementation. In this article we look at how exposure to a form of basic income through the Ontario Basic Income Pilot (OBIP) allowed recipients to imagine a different kind of support. We report on the findings from a study in OBIP from Hamilton, Canada, thematically analysing a subset of inte…
The Development of Employment Protection Legislation in the United Kingdom (1963-2013)
In Britain, employment protection legislation developed in ways far more dynamic, contradictory and toothless than is commonly assumed by conventional theories. Contrary to prevailing understanding, the first job security laws were intended to increase labor market flexibility, encourage mobility and undermine union power. They were introduced by Conservative governments, curiously offering organized labor some benefits, even though both sides of…
From crisis-induced labour reforms to reform-induced social crises
In Europe, the post-2008 crisis years were marked by systematic government efforts to retrench and restructure essential workplace and labour market protections. These policy changes were designed ostensibly to bring efficiency, affordability and flexibility to national economies, thereby promoting growth and stimulating recovery. A wide range of reforms were implemented in the main European Union member states between 2008 and 2013. An examinati…
Cross-National divergence and convergence in social welfare
This article tests welfare and varieties of capitalism theories by comparing the socio-economic outcomes of 16 developed countries before and after the crisis. Utilizing nine indicators, namely inequality, low-pay, union density, unemployment, involuntary part-time work, poverty, occupational health risks, inflexible working hours and training opportunities, the extent of shared similarities and differences in social welfare across four regime-ty…
The Experiences of Social Assistance Recipients on the Ontario Basic Income Pilot
This article attempts to fill part of the research void created by the premature cancellation of the Ontario Basic Income Pilot (OBIP), reporting the results of former Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program service users who received basic income in the Hamilton region through a comparison of their experiences related to physical and mental health, food and housing security, financial security, and social and family relations. It sh…
Canada’s unemployment insurance in crisis
The past several decades in Canada have been marked by systematic attempts to restructure the federally regulated unemployment insurance system, despite growing unemployment and the need for labour market relief. Several program changes, including tightening eligibility requirements, lowering benefits, increasing administrative burdens, limiting enrolment duration and intensifying surveillance have significantly impacted the level and quality of …
The development of Swedish employment protection legislation
This article explores how and why employment protection legislation developed in Sweden in the ways that it did from its early beginnings to the present period. It hopes to offer answers to questions about the initial impetus for statutory regulation, the number and quality of significant employment protection measures adopted and the positions of stakeholders with interests in the reform decision making process. It does this by drawing on a vari…
From crisis-induced labour reforms to reform-induced social crises
In Europe, the post-2008 crisis years were marked by systematic government efforts to retrench and restructure essential workplace and labour market protections. These policy changes were designed ostensibly to bring efficiency, affordability and flexibility to national economies, thereby promoting growth and stimulating recovery. A wide range of reforms were implemented in the main European Union member states between 2008 and 2013. An examinati…
Economic crisis, labour market reform and socio-economic outcomes in Eastern Europe
The 2008 crisis was not only regionally uneven in its economic effects but also led to uneven labour market reforms in eastern European countries. As a result, the socio-economic impact of the global financial crisis and political reactions to it varied considerably among post-communist states. Nevertheless, there have been some common trends in their macroeconomic performances, labour market reforms and welfare outcomes. These trends have import…
The Development of Employment Protection Legislation in the United Kingdom (1963-2013)
In Britain, employment protection legislation developed in ways far more dynamic, contradictory and toothless than is commonly assumed by conventional theories. Contrary to prevailing understanding, the first job security laws were intended to increase labor market flexibility, encourage mobility and undermine union power. They were introduced by Conservative governments, curiously offering organized labor some benefits, even though both sides of…
I Was Trusted for Once”: Imagining More Humane Income Supports Through the Ontario Basic Income Pilot
Current social assistance programmes in Canada and beyond have been criticised for normalising the dehumanisation of recipients through policy design and implementation. In this article we look at how exposure to a form of basic income through the Ontario Basic Income Pilot (OBIP) allowed recipients to imagine a different kind of support. We report on the findings from a study in OBIP from Hamilton, Canada, thematically analysing a subset of inte…
Uneven Protection at Work During Covid-19: Union Voice, Paid Sick Leave and Safety Regimes in Ontario
Using the employed subsample of a broader Ontario-wide online survey, this article compares union and non-union experiences of COVID-19 safety in 2020. We examine infection control, paid time off, anxiety, and awareness of union advocacy, using this non-probability sample for analytic generalization rather than population estimates. In this sample, union-covered respondents more often reported visible ventilation and filtration, referenced joint …
Life Stabilisation Built on Sand: The Limits of Ontario's Integrated Employment Services
Ontario's Integrated Employment Services reform promises person‐centred assessment and ‘life stabilisation’ supports before people on social assistance are pushed towards work. This article argues that the model is structurally incapable of delivering on that promise because it layers standardised, marketised employment services onto a social assistance regime that keeps people in deep poverty and rations basic supports. Drawing on an anonymous o…
Legal Form, Employment Protection and Class Strategy in Britain and Sweden, 1963–2025
This article examines employment protection legislation in Britain from 1963 and in Sweden from its codification in the 1970s, tracing developments through 2025. It argues that dismissal law and related protections operate as legal forms through which capitalist states manage class conflict by stabilising job security for insiders while relocating insecurity to temporary, agency and other non-standard work. The article develops the concepts of ju…
Refusal power and policy credibility in Ontario’s basic income pilot
Debates about basic income often focus on hours worked. This article asks a broader question: does predictable cash help people avoid poor-quality jobs, time short study spells, and move toward better work while staying attached to employment? The article analyses 12 new, purposively sampled interviews with former recipients of Ontario’s 2017–19 basic income pilot using reflexive thematic analysis, read alongside a survey of 217 recipients and a …
Social Policy and Reform Studies (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Market economy (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Unemployment (4 works) · Basic income (3 works)