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Tommy Wu is an Assistant Professor at the School of Labour Studies, McMaster University, specializing in critical labor studies, immigrant labor, and race/ethnicity intersections in globalized work environments.
- Ph.D. in Urban Studies, City University of New York (2019)
- M.Sc. in Urban Planning, Columbia University (2006)
- B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (2000)
His research focuses on labor activism in digital spaces, racialized immigrant workers, flexible labor regimes, and postcolonial labor geographies, drawing on ethnographic methods and critical social theory. Recent work explores social media's role in labor mobilization, spatial control mechanisms in Chinese/Asian restaurants, and worker subjectivities in gig economies.
Key article trends examine digital media's impact on informal labor organizing, racialization in service industries, and spatial-temporal dynamics of immigrant work, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement with sociology, political economy, and cultural studies.
Teaching includes courses on global labor democracy, racism in work systems, and theoretical frameworks in labor studies. No scientific awards are documented in available sources.
