Dr. Stephanie Ross, Director and Associate Professor, School of Labour Studies, McMaster University

Stephanie Ross is Director and Associate Professor in the School of Labour Studies at McMaster University. Her teaching and research focus on the politics and dynamics of labour movements, especially how unions deal with key questions of structure, democracy, bargaining priorities, political vision, political strategy, and collective identity. She is most concerned with strategies to renew the power of working people’s organizations. She is currently the principal investigator on a five-year research project called Union Politics in the 21^stCentury, which seeks to understand the most effective strategies unions are using to influence public policy and improve workers’ lives. She has co-edited three books, Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada, Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity, and Labour Under Attack: Anti-Unionism in Canada (Fernwood 2018), and co-authored another, Building a Better World: An Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada.