Charles Smith
Charles Smith (Ph.D York) is a Professor in the Department of Political Studies at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan. His research interests include Canadian political economy, provincial politics, public law, workers freedoms to collectively bargaining and strike, and American politics. He is the author of Transforming Provincial Politics (2015), Unions in Court: Organized Labour and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (2017), and The New Politics of Western Canada: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures (2025). He has also authored numerous articles and book chapters on provincial politics, Canadian labour history, and the politics of labour unions in Canada. Charles is also co-editor of Canada's foremost labour studies journal, Labour/Le Travail.
