Sean O’Brady is an assistant professor at the DeGroote School of Business and an associate member of the School of Labour Studies at McMaster University. He is interested in how unions respond to digitalization, precarity, worker power, and wage-setting. His work has been published in outlets such as the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy, and elsewhere. Sean also has research affiliations with Cornell University's Ithaca Co-Lab, the Inter-University Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT), and the McMaster Centre for Research on Employment and Work (MCREW). 

His most recent publications are:

O'Brady, S., Doellgast, V., & Blatter, D. (2024). The high costs of outsourcing: Vendor errors, customer mistreatment, and well‐being in call centers. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 63(1): 80-103.

O’Brady, S. (2024). Institutional power resources: A critical analysis. Arnholtz J and Refslund B (eds) Workers, Power and Society: Power Resource Theory in Contemporary Capitalism. New York: Routledge.

Doellgast, V., Wagner, I., & O’Brady, S. (2023). Negotiating limits on algorithmic management in digitalised services: cases from Germany and Norway. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 29(1): 105-120.