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Personal Information
 
Peter Ian MacDonald

Department of Sociology

St. Thomas University
Fredericton, N.B.
E3B 5G3
(506) 452-0513
 
Educational History
 
1) Education:
Ph.D. University of Toronto (OISE) 1980
M.Ed. University of Toronto (OISE) 1972
B.Ed. University of New Brunswick 1970
B.A. University of New Brunswick 1968
 
2) Professional Qualifications:
Teacher's Licence, Certificate V as awarded by the Department of Education, Province of New Brunswick
 
3) Awards:
1974-75 Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship as awarded by the Government of Canada
1971-74 Various fellowships and assistantships as awarded by the University of Toronto
 
Employment History
 
1997-2000 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, St. Thomas University
1996 Six month Sabbatical Leave
1993-95 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, St. Thomas University
1993 Six month Sabbatical Leave

1989-93 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, St. Thomas University

1988-89 Sabbatical Leave
1982-88 Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, St. Thomas University
1981-82 Sabbatical Leave
1980-81 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Community Studies, Brighton Polytechnic
1977-80 Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, St. Thomas University

1975-77 Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, St. Thomas University

1975 Instructor, Winter Semester, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph

1974 Instructor, Summer Session, Department of Sociology in Education, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

1973 Instructor, Summer Session, Department of Educational Foundations, Memorial University of Newfoundland

1968-71 School Teacher, School District #31Province of New Brunswick

 
Professional Memberships
 
a) Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
b) Atlantic Association of Sociologists and Anthropologists
 
Scholarship
 
Published Articles
 
1999 MacDonald, Peter and Michael Clow. "Just One Damn Machine After Another: Situating Technological Innovation in the Industrialization of Tree Harvesting Systems". Technology in Society 21 (1999) 323-344.
 

1996 Clow, Michael and Peter MacDonald, "The Rise and Decline of Trailcutting on the Miramichi 1960 - 1990: A Perspective Based on Oral History", Acadiensis, XXVI, 1 (Autumn), 76-91.

 
1990 "What is Sociology? What is the Sociology of Education?" in Mike Cole (ed.), The Social Contexts of Schooling. Palmer: Lewes, East Sussex.
 
1988 "Historical School Reform and the Correspondence Principle" in Mike Cole (ed.), Bowles and Gintis Revisited: Correspondence and Contradiction in Educational Theory. Palmer: Lewes, East Sussex.
 
Published Book Reviews
 
1999 James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley, and David Robertson, "Just Another Car Factory? Lean Production and its Discontents". Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology. Vol. 36, No. 1
 
(February) 148-150.
 
Manuscripts Submitted for Publication
 
2000 Michael Clow and Peter MacDonald, "If You Go Down to the Woods Today... : Accounting for the Survival and Eclipse of Tree Harvesting Production Systems on the Miramichi River in New Brunswick, Canada". Submitted to Technology in Society.
 
2000 Peter MacDonald and Michael Clow, "What a Difference a Skidder Makes: the Role of Labour Process in the Origins of the Industrialization of Tree Harvesting Production Systems, 1960- 1985". Submitted to Work, Employment, and Society.
 
Papers Presented at Conferences
 

1997 "What a Difference a Skidder Makes: Situating Technological Innovation in the Industrialization of Tree Harvesting Systems", with Michael Clow. Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Association of Sociologists and Anthropologists, Acadia University

 
1993 "Post-Fordism in the Woods since the 1960s", with Michael Clow. Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Carleton University.
 
1993 "Accounting for the Plurality of Tree Harvesting Systems on the Miramichi in the 1990s", with Michael Clow. Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Association of Sociologists and Anthropologists, St. Francis Xavier University.
 

1992 "Contrasting Paths of Development in Tree Harvesting Systems of the Miramichi", with Michael Clow and Aloysius Hayes. Paper presented to the Political Economy Section of the Canadian Political Science Association of the Learned Societies in Charlottetown.

 

1992 "Taylorism in the Woods", with Michael Clow and Aloysius Hayes. Paper presented to the Atlantic Sociologists and Anthropologists Association, Mount St. Vincent's University.

 

1991 "Restructuring of Wood Harvesting on the Miramichi 1970-1990", with Michael Clow, Aloysius Hayes, and Andrew Secord. Paper presented to the Atlantic Canada Studies Workshop, Carleton University.

 
1981 "The Role of Capitalism in Educational Transformation". Paper presented to the Politics, Education, and Sociology Research Group of the British Sociological Association.
 
1977 "Educational Change in a Peripheral Society: The Example of Nineteenth Century Ontario". Paper presented to the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association of the Learned Societies in Fredericton.