 | Kiran Mirchandani phone: (416) 978-0884 email: kmirchandani@oise.utoronto.ca email: kiran@oise.utoronto.ca website: http://www.kiranmirchandani.net Department: Leadership, Higher and Adult Education | |
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Research Overview Dr. Mirchandani's research and teaching focuses on gendered and racialized processes in the workplace; critical perspectives on organizational development and learning; criminalization and welfare policy; and globalization and economic restructuring. Using qualitative, interpretive approaches, her work is based on qualitative interviews with transnational service workers in India and workers in precarious jobs in Canada. Her research projects focus on: Immigration and the labour market experiences of professional migrants to Canada Processes of racialization and gendering in workplaces Economic globalization and the transnationalization of service work Labour standards and their enforcement Welfare fraud policy and the criminalization of poverty Teaching Overview Dr. Mirchandani has taught the following courses at OISE: AEC1150 Critical Perspectives in Organization Development, Theory and Practice AEC1113 Gender and Hierarchy at Work AEC1131 Work, Technology and the Knowledge Economy AEC1135 Practicum in Organization Development AEC1183 Master's Thesis Seminar AEC1131 Work, Learning and Social Change Representative Publications
BOOKS
Livingstone, D, Mirchandani, K and Sawchuk, P. eds. (2008). The Future of Lifelong Learning and Work: Critical Perspectives. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. ARTICLES Gellatly, M., Grundy, J., Mirchandani, K., Perry, J.A., Thomas, M., Vosko, L. (2011). “Modernizing Employment Standards? Efficiency, Market Regulation, and the Production of the Illegal Claimant in Ontario” The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 22 (2): 81-106. Mirchandani, K., Ng, R., Coloma-Moya, N., Maitra, S., Rawlings, T., Shan, H., Siddiqui, K., and Slade, B. (2011) ‘The entrenchment of racial categories in precarious employment’, in N. Pupo, D. Glenday and A. Duffy (eds) The Shifting Landscape of Work, Nelson Educational Ltd., Toronto, pp. 119-138. Mirchandani, K. (2010) Gendered Hierarchies in Transnational Call Centres. Pp. 78-98 in D. Howcroft and H. Richardson eds. Work and Life in the Global Economy. Palgrave McMillan.
Mirchandani, K., Ng, R., Coloma-Moya, N., Maitra, Rawlings, T., Siddiqui, K., Shan, H., Slade, B. (2010). Transitioning into Contingent Work: Immigrants’ Learning and Resistance. In P. Sawchuk and A. Taylor eds. Challenging Transitions in Learning and Work: Reflections on Policy and Research Grants and Contracts 2010-2013 SSHRC Standard Research Grant (Principal Investogator). Auxilliary Workers: The Hidden Scaffold of India’s Information Technology Industry 2006-2009 SSHRC Standard Research Grant (Co-investigator). Professional Immigrant Women Navigating the Canadian Labour Market: A Study in Adult Learning. 2002-2007 SSHRC Standard Research Grant. (Principle Investigator). The Uneven Periphery: Home-Based Work in Canada. 2002-2006 SSHRC Standard Research Grant, INE. (Principle Investigator) Skilled In Vulnerability: Work-related Learning Amongst Contingent Workers. 2002-2005 SSHRC Standard Research Grant, INE. (Co-investigator) Knowledge Networks of Portfolio Workers: Development, Usage, and Benefits for Success in the New Economy. 2002-2004 Canadian Race Relations Foundation. (Joint Principle Investigator) The Racialized impact of Welfare Fraud Control in B.C. and Ontario. |
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