DR. DAVE BROAD is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Studies at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan. He studies work and the labour market and problems of world development and underdevelopment, and has published and presented widely on these subjects. His research includes analysis of the links between global economic restructuring and the casualization of labour, and related issues of poverty and social welfare. He has a particular interest in social change and development in Latin America.

Dr. Broad has served as Director of the Social Policy Research Unit (SPR) at he University of Regina, and has been principal investigator on a number of research grants. He has organized conference sessions for the annual Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, and is a frequent presenter. His current research interest is in manufacturing job loss and its impact on workers, their families and social welfare.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Dave Broad. 2011. "The Productivity Mantra: The Profit Motive Versus The Public Good," Socialist Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1/2 (Spring/Fall).

Dave Broad and Garson Hunter. 2009. "Work, Welfare and the New Economy: The Commodification of Everything," in Norene J. Pupo and Mark P. Thomas (eds.), Interrogating The New Economy: Restructuring Work in the 21st Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Dave Broad and Wayne Antony (eds.). 2006. Capitalism Rebooted? Work, Welfare and the New Economy. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.

Dave Broad. 2004. "The Illusion Of Choice: Economic Restructuring, Flexibility and Security; Employment Standards for Part-time Workers," Saskatchewan Law Review, Vol. 67, No. 2.

Dave Broad and Lori Foster. 2003. "The Child Care Policy That Wasn't," Canadian Review of Social Policy, No. 51 (Spring/Summer).

Dave Broad. 2000. Hollow Work, Hollow Society? Globalization and the Casual Labour Problem. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.

Dave Broad. 2000. "The Periodic Casualization of Work: The Informal Economy, Casual Labour and the Longue Durée," in Faruk Tabak and Michaeline A. Crichlow (eds.), Informalization: Process and Structure. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Dave Broad and Wayne Antony (eds.). 1999. Citizens Or Consumers? Social Policy in a Market Society. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.

Dave Broad. 1998. "New World Order Versus Just World Order," Social Justice, Vol. 25, No. 2.

Dave Broad. 1995. "Globalization Versus Labour," Canadian Review of Social Policy, No. 36 (Winter); Monthly Review, Vol. 47, No. 7 (December).

Dave Broad. 1995. "Globalization, Free Trade, and Canadian Labour," Critical Sociology, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Dave Broad and Lori Foster (eds.). 1992. The New World Order and the Third World. Montreal: Black Rose Books.

Dave Broad. 1991. "Global Economic Restructuring and the (Re)Casualization of Work in the Centre: With Canadian Illustrations," Review, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Fall).