Jason Russell

Jason Russell teaches Introduction to Human Resource Management and Introduction to Labour Management Relations. He has taught at several different post-secondary institutions and his research and publications focus on labour and management in North America in the decades since World War II. Russell also has several years of experience dealing with labour-management relations in the workplace. He completed his undergraduate degree at Western, his MA at Empire State College – SUNY, and his Ph.D. at York University.

Books:

Making Managers in Canada, 1945 - 1995: Companies, Community Colleges, and Universities https://www.routledge.com/Making-Managers-in-Canada-1945-1995/Russell/p/book/9781138691315

Our Union; UAW/CAW Local 27 from 1950 to 1990 http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120195

Website: https://working-lives.com/

Overview

• Associate Professor of Labor Studies at Empire State College and Chair of Graduate Liberal Arts and Science.
• Ph.D. in North American Labor and Working-Class History from York University in Toronto.
• MA in Labor and Policy Studies from Empire State College.
• BA (Hon) History from Western University Canada (formerly University of Western Ontario).
• Review editor at International Labor and Working-Class History.
• Seventeen years of operations experience in the natural gas industry prior to joining academia full-time.
• Taught and develop dozens of in-class, blended, and online undergraduate and graduate courses including: Globalization, Labor-Management Relations, Theories of the Labor Movement, Introduction to the Canadian Labor Movement, US Labor History, Work and Labor Studies.
• Led revisions to Empire State College’s MA in Labor and Policy Studies (including title change), developed a certificate in Public Sector Labor and Employment Policy.

Areas of Expertise

• Twentieth-century American and Canadian labor movements.
• Development of management education in the post-World War II decades.
• Evolution of management as an occupation in the US and Canada in the post-war decades.