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Andie Noack

Dr. Andie Noack

Associate Professor
EducationBA (Wilfrid Laurier), MA (York), PhD (York, Sociology)
OfficeJOR-309
Phone416-979-5000 x552249

Who counts? Who is countable? The answers to these questions shape what we know.

Andie Noack

Dr. Noack is on leave in the Fall 2023 and Winter 2024 terms.

Areas of Expertise:

research methodologies; survey design; statistical analysis; labour & employment

Research:

Dr. Noack is a research methodologist and social statistician. She is interested in the history and politics of knowledge production, and particularly, how practices of survey design and data collection constrain what and who we know about. She is committed to community-engaged, social-justice research, and participates in research teams investigating precarious work and employment standards enforcement.

Website:

ORCID iD icon  orcid.org/0000-0003-2087-5093 (external link, opens in new window) 

rshare.library.torontomu.ca/authors/Andrea_Noack/14179601 (opens in new window) 

Courses:

  • SOC 411: Intro to Quantitative Data Analysis
  • SOC 481: Survey Design and Analysis
  • PD 9004: Foundations of Quantitative Research

Graduate Program Membership:

  • Policy Studies

Community & Professional Service:

Recent Publications:

King, A., V. Coburn, L.F. Vosko, R. Hall, O. Lyubchenko and A.M. Noack. 2022. Determining the ‘Core of Indianness:’ A Feminist Political Economy of NIL/TU,O v. BCGEU. (external link)  Aboriginal Policy Studies 10(1). 

Vosko, L.F., A.M. Noack, A. King and R. Hii. 2022. “Precarious Employment in the Federally Regulated Private Sector.” In Canadian Labour Policy and Politics (external link, opens in new window)  (pp. 107-21), edited by J. Peters and D. Wells. Toronto: UBC Press.

Vosko, L.F., A.M. Noack, A.D.K. King, V. Osten, E. Clare. 2021. A Model Regulator? Investigating Reactive and Proactive Labour Standards Enforcement in Canada’s Federally Regulated Private Sector. (external link, opens in new window)  International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 37(2): 161-182.

King, A.D.K., V. Coburn, L.F. Vosko, O. Lyubchenko, R.J. Hall, A.M. Noack and T. Chartrand. 2020. What’s at the “Core of Indianness”? Bill-C92, Labour and Indigenous Social Services. (external link, opens in new window)  Yellowhead Institute, 10 Nov.

Easton, M.D., A.M. Noack and L.F. Vosko. 2020. Are franchisees more prone to employment standards violations than other businesses? Evidence from Ontario, Canada. (external link, opens in new window)  The Economic and Labour Relations Review, OnlineFirst.

Noack, A.M., A. Hoe and L.F. Vosko. 2020. Who to Inspect? Using Employee Complaint Data to Inform Workplace Inspections in Ontario. (external link, opens in new window)  Canadian Public Policy, e2018065.

Vosko, L.F., A.M. Noack and the Closing the Enforcement Gap Research Group. 2020. Closing the Enforcement Gap: Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs. (external link, opens in new window)  Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 

Tucker, E., L.F. Vosko, R. Casey, M. Thomas, J. Grundy and A.M. Noack. 2019. Carrying Little Sticks: Is There a ‘Deterrence Gap’ in Employment Standards Enforcement in Ontario, Canada? (external link, opens in new window)  International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 35(1): 1–30.

Thomas, M.P., L.F. Vosko, E. Tucker, M. Steedman, A.M. Noack, J. Grundy, M. Gellatly, and L. Leinveer. 2019. The Employment Standards Enforcement Gap and the Overtime Pay Exemption in Ontario. (external link, opens in new window)  Labour/Le Travail 84(1): 25–51.

Noack, A.M. and A.E. Martin. 2019. “Assembling Our Toolkit: Interrogating Representations and Discourses.” In Power and Everyday Practices, 2nd ed. (external link, opens in new window)  (pp. 53-74), edited by D.R. Brock, A.E. Martin, R. Raby and M.P. Thomas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Noack, A.M. 2018. Social Statistics in Action. (external link, opens in new window)  Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.  

K. Mirchandani, L.F. Vosko, U. Soni-Sinha, J.A. Perry, A.M. Noack, R. Hall and M. Gellatly. 2018. Methodological K/nots: Designing Research on the Enforcement of Labour Standards. (external link, opens in new window)  Journal of Mixed Methods Research 12(2): 133-147.

R. Casey, E. Tucker, L.F. Vosko and A.M. Noack. 2018. Using tickets in employment standards inspections: Deterrence as effective enforcement in Ontario, Canada, external link (external link, opens in new window) . The Economic and Labour Relations Review 29(2): 228-249.

Vosko, L.F., J. Grundy, R. Casey, A.M. Noack and M.P. Thomas. 2018. A Tattered Quilt: Exemptions and Special Rules under Ontario’s Employment Standards Act. Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal 21(2): 267–98.

Grundy, J., A.M. Noack, L.F. Vosko, R. Casey and R. Hii. 2017. Enforcement of Ontario's Employment Standards Act: The Impact of Reforms. (external link, opens in new window)  Canadian Public Policy 43(3): 190-201.  

Vosko, L.F., J. Grundy, E. Tucker, M.P. Thomas, A.M. Noack, R. Casey, M. Gellatly and  J. Mussell. 2017. The compliance model of employment standards enforcement: an evidence-based assessment of its efficacy in instances of wage theft. (external link, opens in new window)  Industrial Relations Journal 48: 256–273.