Chris Fairweather

I'm a PhD Candidate (A.B.D.) in Labour Studies at McMaster. My dissertation research is primarily about nationalism and internationalism in the Canadian labour movement in the context of globalization and deindustrialization. My M.A. thesis was about the politics of national identity and mobilization in the 2016 fight to secure a future for the GM plant in Oshawa. I've published some of my findings from that research in the Journal of Labor and Society. I've been an active member of both Unifor and the Canadian Union of Public Employees, and so I found my way to this research not just as a scholarly interest but as a personal one.