Ellen D Russell
Biographic Data
| ID | 335387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen D Russell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen D |
| FAMILY NAME | Russell |
| SIGNATURE | RUSSELL E D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3185-6525 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Economic Expertise in Postcapitalist Democratic Economic Planning
Postcapitalist democratic economic planning (DEP) seeks to democratize economic decision-making. In response to the failures of central planning, DEP is vigilant lest the emergence of some new elite subvert its democratic and egalitarian aspirations. This article considers the possibility that economic expertise intended to support DEP may be means through which new elites are covertly encouraged. DEP advocates seek to safeguard DEP processes fro…
Legitimating Worker Disentitlement: Depictions of Postal Workers’ Wage Struggles in Globe and Mail Editorials, 1970–2015
Background Since the late 1970s, inflation-adjusted wages have stagnated as workers’ bargaining power has diminished. The discursive environment in which workers’ wage entitlements is contested is an important—yet often neglected—influence on worker bargaining power. Analysis The authors examine editorials published in the Globe and Mail between 1970 and 2015 related to postal workers’ wage bargaining to examine the criteria advanced to evaluate …
Rethinking Marxism in Stephen Resnick’s Classroom: Pedagogical Reflections on the Fatiguing and the Luminous
Marx famously described the learning of Marxism as both potentially fatiguing and luminous. Marxian pedagogy must navigate the perils encountered by students of Marxism, and encourage glimpses of the enlivening possibilities that this encounter may enable. To reflect on Stephen Resnick’s pedagogical contributions to the teaching of Marxism, this essay employs insights from psychoanalysis and education theory to reconsider the author’s experience …
Resisting Divide and Conquer: Worker/Environmental Alliances and the Problem of Economic Growth
Worker and environmental alliances are critical to advancing economic and environmental transformation, yet they have been very challenging to promote and sustain. This article analyzes these difficulties by providing a class analysis of “divide and conquer” strategies instigated by capitalist firms to subvert worker/environmental alliances. It situates the relationship between workers, environmentalist and capitalist firms in two historical cont…
Why the rising tide doesn’t lift all boats: Wages and bargaining power in neoliberal Canada
Neoliberalism promises to unleash a “rising tide that lifts all boats.” But despite growing productivity in Canada, neoliberalism has delivered disappointing real wage growth, particularly for low-wage workers. We employ a bargaining power framework to argue that neoliberal economic, political, and social/cultural developments have eroded worker bargaining power. The resulting “austerity labour markets” characteristic of mature neoliberalism unde…
Adam Smith's Daughters: Eight Prominent Women Economists from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, by Bette Polkinghorn and Dorothy Lampen Thomson
Resisting Divide and Conquer: Worker/Environmental Alliances and the Problem of Economic Growth
Worker and environmental alliances are critical to advancing economic and environmental transformation, yet they have been very challenging to promote and sustain. This article analyzes these difficulties by providing a class analysis of “divide and conquer” strategies instigated by capitalist firms to subvert worker/environmental alliances. It situates the relationship between workers, environmentalist and capitalist firms in two historical cont…
Why the rising tide doesn’t lift all boats: Wages and bargaining power in neoliberal Canada
Neoliberalism promises to unleash a “rising tide that lifts all boats.” But despite growing productivity in Canada, neoliberalism has delivered disappointing real wage growth, particularly for low-wage workers. We employ a bargaining power framework to argue that neoliberal economic, political, and social/cultural developments have eroded worker bargaining power. The resulting “austerity labour markets” characteristic of mature neoliberalism unde…
Adam Smith's Daughters: Eight Prominent Women Economists from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, by Bette Polkinghorn and Dorothy Lampen Thomson
Why the rising tide doesn’t lift all boats: Wages and bargaining power in neoliberal Canada
Neoliberalism promises to unleash a “rising tide that lifts all boats.” But despite growing productivity in Canada, neoliberalism has delivered disappointing real wage growth, particularly for low-wage workers. We employ a bargaining power framework to argue that neoliberal economic, political, and social/cultural developments have eroded worker bargaining power. The resulting “austerity labour markets” characteristic of mature neoliberalism unde…
Rethinking Marxism in Stephen Resnick’s Classroom: Pedagogical Reflections on the Fatiguing and the Luminous
Marx famously described the learning of Marxism as both potentially fatiguing and luminous. Marxian pedagogy must navigate the perils encountered by students of Marxism, and encourage glimpses of the enlivening possibilities that this encounter may enable. To reflect on Stephen Resnick’s pedagogical contributions to the teaching of Marxism, this essay employs insights from psychoanalysis and education theory to reconsider the author’s experience …
Resisting Divide and Conquer: Worker/Environmental Alliances and the Problem of Economic Growth
Worker and environmental alliances are critical to advancing economic and environmental transformation, yet they have been very challenging to promote and sustain. This article analyzes these difficulties by providing a class analysis of “divide and conquer” strategies instigated by capitalist firms to subvert worker/environmental alliances. It situates the relationship between workers, environmentalist and capitalist firms in two historical cont…
Legitimating Worker Disentitlement: Depictions of Postal Workers’ Wage Struggles in Globe and Mail Editorials, 1970–2015
Background Since the late 1970s, inflation-adjusted wages have stagnated as workers’ bargaining power has diminished. The discursive environment in which workers’ wage entitlements is contested is an important—yet often neglected—influence on worker bargaining power. Analysis The authors examine editorials published in the Globe and Mail between 1970 and 2015 related to postal workers’ wage bargaining to examine the criteria advanced to evaluate …
Economic Expertise in Postcapitalist Democratic Economic Planning
Postcapitalist democratic economic planning (DEP) seeks to democratize economic decision-making. In response to the failures of central planning, DEP is vigilant lest the emergence of some new elite subvert its democratic and egalitarian aspirations. This article considers the possibility that economic expertise intended to support DEP may be means through which new elites are covertly encouraged. DEP advocates seek to safeguard DEP processes fro…
Economics (5 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Bargaining power (2 works) · Collective bargaining (2 works) · Economic system (2 works)