Marcos Ancelovici
Marcos Ancelovici was a CIFAR Junior Fellow from September 1, 2009 to August 31, 2010, working under the supervision of Successful Societies Fellow Jane Jenson, Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Governance at the University of Montreal. Marcos completed his Ph.D. in Political Science in 2007 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with Suzanne Berger, Michael Piore and Jane Jenson as his advisors. He was the winner of the 2008 Georges Lavau Dissertation Award of the American Political Science Association. Marcos also holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Political Science from the University of Montreal. Since 2007, he has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at McGill University.
Marcos is interested in the political sociology of globalization. His doctoral dissertation argued that labour responses to globalization in France stemmed from political-cultural struggles inside trade unions, rather than economic processes related to trade and foreign investment. Expanding this initial interest in labour and globalization, he is currently beginning a new project on civil society campaigns in favour of new, private forms of transnational regulation (e.g., codes of conduct, private certification, and international framework agreements) that aim at shaping the practices of multinational corporations for the benefit of workers worldwide. More specifically, this project, which he will pursue during his Junior Fellowship at CIFAR, will try to explain why the nature, demands, and strategies of these campaigns vary across industrial sectors and countries, instead of converging toward a single best practice or regulatory model. He will investigate this question through a comparative study of activist networks and campaigns in Canada, France, the Netherlands, and the United States.
Marcos is interested in the political sociology of globalization. His doctoral dissertation argued that labour responses to globalization in France stemmed from political-cultural struggles inside trade unions, rather than economic processes related to trade and foreign investment. Expanding this initial interest in labour and globalization, he is currently beginning a new project on civil society campaigns in favour of new, private forms of transnational regulation (e.g., codes of conduct, private certification, and international framework agreements) that aim at shaping the practices of multinational corporations for the benefit of workers worldwide. More specifically, this project, which he will pursue during his Junior Fellowship at CIFAR, will try to explain why the nature, demands, and strategies of these campaigns vary across industrial sectors and countries, instead of converging toward a single best practice or regulatory model. He will investigate this question through a comparative study of activist networks and campaigns in Canada, France, the Netherlands, and the United States.