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Marcelo Vieta

Associate Professor

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education

RESEARCH INTERESTS

* Workplace and organizational learning and social change
* Sociology of work
* Labour-process theory
* Social and solidarity economy initiatives and conceptualizations of the social economy
* Economic democracy
* Critical development studies
* Social movement learning
* Organization studies, with a focus on participatory and democratic organizations
* Worldwide cooperative movement, with a focus on worker cooperatives
* Worker- and community-recuperated enterprises (formerly capitalist firms or public-sector interests that are converted to workers' or community self-management)
* Workers' self-management/autogestión
* Work-integration social enterprises and social cooperatives
* New cooperativism
* Critical theory
* Political economy
* Class-struggle approaches
* Latin American social and political thought
* Philosophy of technology.
* Continental philosophy

My research practice and projects have been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada, the University of Toronto's Connaught Fund, and the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises.

GRANTS

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  • SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENT
    Mapping Dynamic Coalitions in the Social and Solidarity Economy: Visibilizing Networks of Food Sovereignty and Alternative Trade in Argentina
    Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)1 Mar 2025 - 28 Feb 2026
  • SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENT
    Creating Social Cooperatives for Mental Health: Co-producing Practice and Knowledge Between Argentina and Canada
    Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)1 Mar 2023 - 29 Feb 2024
  • SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENT
    Rescuing SMEs During and After COVID-19: Action Research Supporting Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Ontario via Conversions to Co-operatives
    Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)1 Sep 2020 - 31 Aug 2021
  • SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENT
    The Conversion to Co-operatives Project
    Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)1 Apr 2020 - 31 Mar 2021
  • SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENT
    WISE Longitudinal Evaluation Project
    Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)1 Apr 2020 - 31 Mar 2021
  • SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENT
    The Conversion to Co-operatives Project
    Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)23 Mar 2018 - 22 Mar 2021
  • SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENT
    WISE Project for Training At-Risk Youth
    Employment & Social Developm Canada1 Jul 2017 - 31 May 2022
  • SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENT
    Establishing AERLab (Alternative Economics Research Lab)
    Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)1 Apr 2017 - 31 Mar 2018
  • SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENT
    WISE Longitudinal Evaluation Project
    Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)15 Mar 2017 - 31 Mar 2025
  • SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENT
    Recalling the Past, Recuperating the Workplace: Collective Memory and Learning-in-Struggle at Worker-Recuperated Enterprises
    Connaught Fund1 Apr 2016 - 31 Mar 2018
  • SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENT
    Supported Social Enterprise Research Project (SSERP)
    Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)1 Jun 2015 - 31 May 2016
  • SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENT
    Alternative Economies and Transformative Organizations
    Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)1 Apr 2015 - 31 Mar 2016
  • SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENT
    Worker Recuperated Enterprises
    Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)1 Apr 2014 - 31 Mar 2015