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Professor Emeritus/Emerita
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of Social Justice Education
- Professor Emeritus/EmeritaOntario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of Social Justice Education
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BIO
D.W. Livingstone is Professor Emeritus and Past Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He worked at OISE from 1969 until retiring from graduate teaching in 2010 and has continued an active research agenda since that time. This site is intended to provide an overview of his research projects, publications and other resource materials that may be of use to other researchers and interested publics.
His most important book, TIPPING POINT FOR ADVANCED CAPITALISM: CLASS, CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS AND ACTIVISM IN THE "KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY", was published by Fernwood Publishing in late 2023. TPAC is a pathbreaking study of the changing class makeup of the Canadian, other G7 and Nordic labour forces since the 1980s, documenting especially the rise of non-managerial professional employees. The book provides unprecedented tracking of the links between employment classes and higher levels of class consciousness, including the often hidden political consciousness of corporate capitalists as well as the extent of oppositional and revolutionary consciousness among non-managerial workers. The large differences exposed between class conscious capitalists and these non-managerial workers on issues of poverty reduction and global warming reveal the strategic roles these key class agents play in actions to defend or transform advanced capitalism. The most concerted evidence-based study to bring class back into grasping the intimately linked ecological, economic and political crises we now face.
The TPAC book cost is $34, available for order:
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/tipping-point-for-advanced-capitalism
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For promotion of further class-based analyses based on TPAC, see 3 recent pieces in Jacobin:
https://jacobin.com/author/d-w-livingstone
Livingstone's most relevant books are listed here and at the exhibits site. All are still available directly from publishers:
Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism: Class, Class Consciousness and Activism in the 'Knowledge Economy’. Black Point, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing, 2023. https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/tipping-point-for-advanced-capitalism
Professional Power and Skill Use in the ‘Knowledge Economy’: A Class Analysis. Leiden/Boston: Brill/Sense, 2021. (with T.L. Adams and P.H. Sawchuk). https://brill.com/display/title/60173?language=en
The Knowledge Economy and Lifelong Learning: A Critical Reader. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2012. (with D. Guile). https://brill.com/display/title/37691
Teacher Learning and Power in the Knowledge Society. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2012. (Edited with R. Clark and H. Smaller). https://brill.com/display/title/37598?language=en
Manufacturing Meltdown: Reshaping Steel Work. Black Point. NS: Fernwood Publishing, 2011. (with D.E. Smith, and W Smith). https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/manufacturing-meltdown
Lifelong Learning in Paid and Unpaid Work: Survey and Case Study Findings. London: Routledge, 2010. https://www.routledge.com/Lifelong-Learning-in-Paid-and-Unpaid-Work-Survey-and-Case-Study-Findings/Livingstone/p/book/9780415619837
Education and Jobs: Exploring the Gaps. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. https://utorontopress.com/9781442600508/education-and-jobs/
“Down to Earth People” : Beyond Class Reductionism and Post Modernism. Toronto: Garamond Press, 1999 (with Wally Seccombe).
https://utorontopress.com/9781442602526/down-to-earth-people
The Education–Jobs Gap: Underemployment or Economic Democracy. Toronto: Garamond Press and Clinton Corners, NY: Percheron Press, 2004 (second edition). https://www.routledge.com/The-Education-Jobs-Gap-Underemployment-Or-Economic-Democracy/Livingstone/p/book/9780813366296
Hidden Knowledge: Organized Labour in the Information Age. Toronto: Garamond Press and Lanham, MA.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. (with P. Sawchuk). https://utorontopress.com/9781551930459/hidden-knowledge/
Recast Dreams: Class and Gender Consciousness in Steeltown. Toronto: Garamond Press, 1996. (co-authored and edited with J.M. Mangan). https://utorontopress.com/9781551930015/recast-dreams/
Class, Ideologies and Educational Futures. London and New York: Falmer Press and International Publishing Services, 1983. (reissued in 2012 in Routledge Library Editions). https://www.routledge.com/Class-Ideologies-and-Educational-Futures/Livingstone/p/book/9781138008281
Some other relevant publications are available on this website under "Scholarly & Creative Works" and the links to ResearchGate, Google scholar and TSpace.
Livingstone has been involved in numerous research networks, most notably:
• Principal investigator of the OISE Survey of Educational Issues, the only regular, publicly accessible profile of public attitudes toward education in Canada from 1978 to 2010. (see https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/guestid/oise/About_OISE/OISE_Survey/)
• Member of the Critical Pedagogy Group and editor of Critical Pedagogy and Cultural Power,1980s.
• Leader of the Steelworker Families Project with USWA Local 1005 from 1982 to 2012.
• Leader of the Education-Jobs Matching Project from 1990 to 1996.
• Network leader of New Approaches to Lifelong Leaning (NALL) from 1996 to 2003. (see https://nall.oise.utoronto.ca/)
• Network leader of Work and Lifelong Learning (WALL) from 2004 to 2010. (see https://wall.oise.utoronto.ca/)
• Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work from 2004 to 2010.
• Principal investigator of the Changing Work in the Knowledge Economy (CWKE) from 2015 to 2021. (see CWKE at CLSEW...)
• Co-creator (with Wally Seccombe) of the Comparative Political Economy Data Base (CPEDB) from 2018 to present. (see CPEDB
at CLSEW or internet.
Data Bases
A central data archive contains codebooks, questionnaires and survey data for most of the empirical analyses contained in the Tipping Point book, Professional Power and Skill Use in the ‘Knowledge Economy’, and many other recent publications. This central data archive is publicly available to all interested users at:
https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/CanadaWorkLearningSurveys1998-2016
The surveys include:
• The 1982 national survey in the Canadian Class Structure Survey conducted by Wallace Clement and John Myles at Carleton U., reproduced at this site.
• My national surveys of the Canadian labour force conducted in 1998, 2004 and 2010.
• The 2016 national survey of the Canadian labour force conducted in the CWKE project.
• A unique series of 11 surveys of the attitudes of corporate executives resident in Ontario, selected from Financial Post Directory of Directors, conducted in conjunction with the OISE Survey of Educational Issues: Corporate Executive Surveys (1980-2000)
• Finally, summary information for the Canada-wide adult population study Leger Alternatives Survey conducted in 2020.
A file entitled “Basic Questions and Resources for Comparative Surveys of Employment Classes and Class Consciousness” is also available at the borealis Canada WorkLearningSurveys1998-21016 site. This file offers the basic elements for any critical researchers and/or progressive social movements interested in following the approach in the TPAC book.
A related data base of much wider international scope, the Comparative Political Economy Data Base (CPEDB), is being developed in collaboration with Dr. Wally Seccombe. It includes G7 and Nordic countries as well as Spain and Greece. It covers a wide array of economic, political, demographic, environmental and other variables. CPEDB also contains the logic and data from the International Labour Organization (ILO) for the construction of the international employment class variable that appears in both the Tipping Point and Professional Power books. CPEDB is also located at the borealis site (https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/CPEDB/) with access on request. CPEDB is undergoing further development at the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University (https://carleton.ca/politicaleconomy|). Anyone interested in assisting in the development of or using this data base in the near future should contact one of us: wallys@blackcreekfarm.ca or dwlivingstone@gmail.com.
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DEGREES
- PhDJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States1966 - 1971
- Honours BA in SociologyUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada1961 - 1966
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
- CRC in Lifelong Learning and WorkOISE, Mississauga, CanadaSupervised by Livingstone D
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