Roy J. Adams is a Canadian

Canada

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 author, newspaper

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 columnist

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, human rights

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 activist and academic.

He emigrate

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d to Canada in 1973 and taught industrial relations at McMaster University

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 until 1997. Since then he has been a newspaper columnist for the Hamilton Spectator and has written a number of articles. He has contributed significantly to the development of industrial relations theory in North America. He is also the recipient of the Canadian Industrial Relations Association Gérard Dion award for his outstanding contributions to Canadian and international industrial relations.

A Ph.D.

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 degree graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison

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, Adams has written a number of books and articles. His most recently published book is Labour Left Out: Canada’s Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right. In the Ontario general election, 2003

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, Adams was the New Democratic Party

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 candidate for his home riding of Hamilton West. In 2003, Roy convened a group of top civic leaders in Hamilton to form the Hamilton Civic Coalition with the mandate to improve the quality of life in Hamilton, Ontario. He acted as HCC's Executive Director from its inception until July 2007.

Books

• Adams, Roy J. Labour left out : Canada's failure to protect and promote collective bargaining as a human right / by Roy J. Adams. -- Ottawa : Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, [2006]. 152 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0-88627-469-9
• Adams, Roy J. Good job, bad jobs, no jobs : tough choices for Canadian labor law / Roy J. Adams, Gordon Betcherman, Beth Bilson ; with comments by Roger Phillips and John O'Grady. -- Toronto : C.D. Howe Institute, 1995. vii, 198 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. ISBN 0-88806-352-0
• Adams, Roy J. The growth of white-collar unionism in Britain and Sweden : a comparative investigation / Roy J. Adams. -- Madison : Industrial Relations Research Institute, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1975.
• Adams, Roy J. Towards a more competent labour force : a training levy scheme for Canada / by Roy J. Adams. -- Hamilton, Ont. : Faculty of Business, McMaster University, 1979.
• Adams, Roy J. Dunlop after two decades : systems theory as a framework for organizing the field of industrial relations / by Roy J. Adams. -- Hamilton, Ont. : Faculty of Business, McMaster University, 1977.
• Adams, Roy J. Two policy approaches to labour-management decision-making at the level of the enterprise : a comparison of the Wagner model and statutory works councils / by R.J. Adams. -- Hamilton, Ont. : Faculty of Business, McMaster University, 1984.
• Adams, Roy J. Employment standards as industrial relations sub-system : the Ontario case / by Roy J. Adams. -- Hamilton, Ont. : Faculty of Business, McMaster University, 1986.
• Adams, Roy J. The role of management in a political conception of the employment relationship / by Roy J. Adams. -- Hamilton, Ont. : Faculty of Business, McMaster University, 1986.
• Adams, Roy J. Labour-management dispute resolution in Canadian heavy industry : the Hilton Works case / by Roy J. Adams and Isik Zeytinoglu. -- Hamilton, Ont. : Faculty of Business, McMaster University, [1986].
• Comparative industrial relations : contemporary research and theory / edited by Roy J. Adams. -- London : HarperCollinsAcademic, 1991.
• Industrial relations theory : its nature, scope, and pedagogy / edited by Roy J. Adams and Noah M. Meltz. -- Metuchen, N.J. : IMLR Press/Rutgers University, 1993.
• Adams, Roy J. Industrial relations under liberal democracy : North America in comparative perspective / Roy J. Adams. -- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c1995. xi, 219 p. ; 24 cm. ISBN 1-57003-019-7