Dr. John Peters is an associate professor of Workplace and Labour Studies at Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. His research focuses on economic globalization, inequality, and labour market deregulation.
His forthcoming book, Jobs With Inequality: Financialization, Post-Democracy, and Labour Market Deregulation in Canada, will be published with University of Toronto Press in late 2021/early 2022.
His new edited collection, Confronting Inequality: Canadian Labour Policy and Politics with UBC Press (co-edited with Dr. Don Wells, McMaster University) is currently under review.
As a co-investigator on the SSHRC Partnerhip Grant "Institutional Experimentation for Better Work," he is conducting research on how unions and new social movements can work together to win Green New Deals.
Dr. Peters is a founding editor of the Labour in Canada series with Fernwood Publishing, and is also active in the Sudbury community, formerly serving as Vice-President of the Sudbury and District Labour Council.
His teaching interests span comparative employment relations, labour and global climate change, and union organizing and advocacy.