My recent research focuses on wage trends and growing inequality. I’m interested in the interaction of economic, political and cultural factors that have disadvantaged workers in recent decades, particularly as they have impacted worker bargaining power and contributed to stagnating real wages. I have applied this research to the study of austerity programs to examine their economic rationales and their impacts on wages, and to investigate the potential alliances between workers and environmentalists.
My current research investigates how economic discourses interpret economic necessity and possibility in ways that legitimate certain outcomes while rendering other conversations about the economy invisible.
