Marcelo VietaProfile page
Associate Professor
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
- Associate ProfessorOntario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
- (416) 978-0515
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.
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- SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENTMapping Dynamic Coalitions in the Social and Solidarity Economy: Visibilizing Networks of Food Sovereignty and Alternative Trade in ArgentinaSocial Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)1 Mar 2025 - 28 Feb 2026
- SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENTCreating Social Cooperatives for Mental Health: Co-producing Practice and Knowledge Between Argentina and CanadaSocial Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)1 Mar 2023 - 29 Feb 2024
- SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENTRescuing SMEs During and After COVID-19: Action Research Supporting Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Ontario via Conversions to Co-operativesSocial Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)1 Sep 2020 - 31 Aug 2021
- SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENTThe Conversion to Co-operatives ProjectSocial Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)1 Apr 2020 - 31 Mar 2021
- SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENTWISE Longitudinal Evaluation ProjectSocial Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)1 Apr 2020 - 31 Mar 2021
- SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENTThe Conversion to Co-operatives ProjectSocial Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)23 Mar 2018 - 22 Mar 2021
- SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENTWISE Project for Training At-Risk YouthEmployment & Social Developm Canada1 Jul 2017 - 31 May 2022
- SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENTEstablishing AERLab (Alternative Economics Research Lab)Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)1 Apr 2017 - 31 Mar 2018
- SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENTWISE Longitudinal Evaluation ProjectSocial Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)15 Mar 2017 - 31 Mar 2025
- SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENTRecalling the Past, Recuperating the Workplace: Collective Memory and Learning-in-Struggle at Worker-Recuperated EnterprisesConnaught Fund1 Apr 2016 - 31 Mar 2018
- SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENTSupported Social Enterprise Research Project (SSERP)Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)1 Jun 2015 - 31 May 2016
- SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENTAlternative Economies and Transformative OrganizationsSocial Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)1 Apr 2015 - 31 Mar 2016
- SPONSORED RESEARCH AGREEMENTWorker Recuperated EnterprisesSocial Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC)1 Apr 2014 - 31 Mar 2015