Anil Verma is a Professor of Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management at the University of Toronto where he holds a joint appointment at the Rotman School of Management and the Centre for Industrial Relations, of which he is currently Acting Director. He has taught previously at the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Saskatchewan, and has worked in the steel industry as an engineer for five years. His primary research interests are in the area of management responses to unionization, participative forms of work organization, wage and employment outcomes, and the contribution of workplace innovations to organizational effectiveness and performance. Anil has served as President of the Canadian Industrial Relations Association and on the Executive Board of the International Industrial Relations Association. He consults with a wide range of businesses, unions, governments and international agencies, including the Advisory Committee on Labour & Income Statistics, Statistics Canada. He has published over sixty articles in research journals and books, and is a member of the editorial board of several journals. He has co-edited seven
books including: Unions in the 21st Century: An International Perspective (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004); Restructuring Work and the Life Course (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001); Contract and Commitment: Employment Relations in the New Economy (Kingston, ON: IRC Press, 1999); Regionalization and Labour Market Interdependence in East and South-east Asia (London: Macmillan, 1997).