Ian MacDonald est professeur agrégé à l’École de relations industrielles de l’Université de Montréal. Titulaire d’un doctorat en science politique de l’Université York, ses intérêts de recherche portent sur le renouveau syndical, la géographie urbaine et l’économie politique comparative. Avant son arrivée à Montréal, il a occupé des postes d’enseignement et de recherches à New York, où il a mené un projet collaboratif sur le renouveau syndical (Unions and the City: Negotiating Urban Change, Cornell ILR Press, 2017) dans le cadre duquel il a dirigé des recherches sur le rôle des organisations syndicales dans le développement des politiques publiques au sein du secteur des arts à Toronto et New York. Il est actuellement impliqué dans un projet de recherche-action avec un groupe de travailleurs précaires dans le milieu de l’archéologie québécoise. Le but de ce projet est de mettre en place une forme d’organisation collective permettant de contrer la précarité vécue par ces travailleurs et qui est adaptée à leurs conditions de travail.

Livres :

Ian MacDonald (Ed.), Unions and the City: Negotiating Urban Change. Ithaca: Cornell ILR Press, 2017.

Articles :

W. Wei and Ian MacDonald, “Modeling the Quality of ‘Work Relationships’ in China’s Gig Economy,” Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 60 (4), pp. 855-879.

Ian MacDonald and M. Kolhatkar, 2021, “An Experimental Organization of Precarious Professionals: The Two-Step Unionization of Quebec Archeaologists,” Labour/Le travail, 88 (Fall), pp. 27-51. Received 'Best Article' of the year award.

Ian MacDonald and M. Dupuis, 2021, “Limits and Liabilities of Labour-Controlled Investment: Quebec’s Solidarity Fund at Work,” Economic and Industrial Democracy, 42(3), pp. 573-598.

Gregor Murray, I. Ferreras, I. MacDonald and V.  Pugliano, 2020, “L’expérimentation institutionnelle au travail, pour le meilleur (ou pour le pire),” Transfer: European Journal of Research and Labour, 26, 2. pp.119-125.

Ian MacDonald and M. Dupuis, 2018, “Les limites et les obligations de la finance contrôlée par les syndicats,”Nouveau Cahiers du Socialisme, 19 (Winter) pp. 29-40.

Ian MacDonald, Towards Neoliberal Trade Unionism: Rhythms of Decline, Renewal and Transformation in North American Labour Movements, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 52:4 (December 2014) pp. 725-752.

Ian MacDonald, Public Transit Strikes in New York and Toronto: Towards an Urbanization of Trade Union Power and Strategy, Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 21,1 (Summer 2012): 24-51.

Ian MacDonald, Bargaining for Rights in Luxury City: The Dilemmas of Organized Labor’s Urban Turn, Labor Studies Journal, 36, 2 (June 2011): 197-220.  Received ‘Best Article’ of the year award.

Ian MacDonald, Exceptional New York? Variations in Neoliberal Labour Relations at the Urban Scale, Global Labour Journal, 1, 2 (June 2010): pp. 233-264.

Ian MacDonald, Negotiating Mexico’s Labour Law Reform: Corporatism, Neo-liberalism and Democratic Opening, Studies in Political Economy, 70 (Spring 2004): pp. 139-158.

 Ian MacDonald, NAFTA and the Emergence of Continental Labor Cooperation, American Review of Canadian Studies, 33, 2 (Summer 2003): pp. 173-196.

Chapitres de livre :

MacDonald, Ian and W. Thorben, “Reflections on Labour Strategy in Urban and Regional Governance,” in P. Fairbrother, P. Almond, E. Blandine, M. Gonzalez, C. Lévesque, and L. Morisette (eds), Unions at Work in Regions: Processes of Experimentation and Outcomes. London: Routledge, 2022. pp. 67-84.

Steven Tufts, M. Thomas and I. MacDonald, “Austerity Urbanism, Populism, and Labour” in C. Levine-Rasky and L. Kowalchuk (eds), We Resist: Defending the Common Good in Hostile Times. Kingston: McGill-Queens, 2020. pp. 206-214.

Ian MacDonald, “Rethinking Labor Unionism in Spaces of Precarious Work,” in I. Ness and M. Atzeni (eds), Labour Reconfiguration and Workers’ Resistance: Global perspectives. New York: Springer, 2018. pp. 3-22.

Ian MacDonald, “The Urbanization of Union Struggle and Strategy,” in Unions and the City: Negotiating Urban Change, in I. MacDonald (ed) Ithaca: Cornell ILR Press, 2017. pp. 1-26.

Ian MacDonald, “Labor and the Hospitable City,” in Unions and the City: Negotiating Urban Change, in I MacDonald (ed), Ithaca: Cornell ILR Press. pp. 27-30.

Ian MacDonald, “Labor Strategy and the Politics of Elite Division: Negotiating the High Road in Midtown Manhattan,” in Unions and the City: Negotiating Urban Change, in I. MacDonald (ed) Ithaca: Cornell ILR Press, 2017. pp. 31-52.

Ian MacDonald, “Conclusion,” in Unions and the City: Negotiating Urban Change, in I. MacDonald (ed) Ithaca: Cornell ILR Press, 2017. pp. 208-220.