Tom Abel

Tom Abel

Degree: Ph.D.
Year of Entry: 2024
Program: Adult Education and Community Development
Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education
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Biography

Tom is a second-year PhD student focusing on neoliberal marketization reforms in Ontario's employment services sector. He is specifically interested in the impacts these reforms have on the ethical agency of frontline workers in nonprofit social service (NPSS) organizations.

Degrees

  • Master of Education, Adult Education and Community Development
    OISE, University of Toronto
  • Master of Arts, Political Science
    University of Toronto
  • Bachelor of Arts, International Development and History
    University of Guleph

Research Interests

  • Workplace learning
  • nonprofit organizational studies
  • labour process theory
  • moral economy
  • political economy
  • public policy
  • neoliberalism