Associate Professor
Marcelo Vieta
Universities & Institutions
- University of Toronto
Areas of Expertise
- Social economy
- Cooperatives
- Social movements
- Economic development
- Political participation
- Sustainable development strategies
- Community empowerment
- SMEs
Biography
Marcelo Viata is an Associate Professor with the Program in Adult Education and Community Development in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). He is also a co-founder and co-director of the Centre for Learning, Social Economy and Work (CLSEW).
His research, teaching, and activist interests are in workplace and organisational learning and social change; the sociology of work; social and solidarity economy initiatives; critical community development; the worldwide cooperative movement, with a focus on worker cooperatives; worker- and community-recuperated enterprises (formerly capitalist firms or public sector interests that are converted to workers’ or community self-management); critical theory; and the philosophy of technology.