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Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and Senior Research Associate, Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg. He is author of Southern Insurgency (Pluto, 2015), Co-Editor, with Jake Alimahomd-Wilson, Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain (Pluto 2018), and, with Cecilia Menjivar and Marie Ruiz, Co-Editor, Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises (Oxford University Press 2019). He is author of Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2011), and other works on migration, labor movements and political organizations, social change, and imperialism. He is co-editor, with Zak Cope, of the quarterly periodical, Journal of Labor and Society. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/24714607

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Employment (2)

University of Johannesburg: Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA

2015-01-15 to present | Senior Research Associate (Centre for Social Change)
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City University of New York, Brooklyn College: Brooklyn, NY, US

1997-08-25 to present | Professor (Political Science)
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Education and qualifications (1)

City University of New York: New York, NY, US

1990-09-01 to 1997-05-30 | PhD (Political Science)
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Funding (1)

PSC-CUNY Research Award

2016-05 to 2019-09 | Grant
CUNY Research Foundation (CUNY Research Foundation, North America, US)
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Works (41)

International labour migration and decent work

2025-01-14 | Book chapter
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Western Marxism, Anti-Communism and Imperialism

International Critical Thought
2024-10 | Journal article
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Footloose Culture: Migrant Workers and Cultural Meanings of Labour

Society and Culture in South Asia
2024-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Immanuel Ness; Amiya Kumar Das; Mithilesh Kumar
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Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia. By Albena Azmanova. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 272p. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper.

Perspectives on Politics
2020-12 | Journal article
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Introduction: Mexican labor movement in transformation

Journal of Labor and Society
2019-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Paolo Marinaro; Immanuel Ness
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The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises

Oxford University Press
2019-03-15 | Edited book
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Choke Points

2018-04 | Book
Part of ISBN: 9781786801906
Contributors: Jake Alimahomed-Wilson; Immanuel Ness
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Global Perspectives on Workers' and Labour Organizations

Work, Organization, and Employment
2018-03 | Book
Part of ISBN: 9789811078828
Part of ISSN: 2520-8837
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Güneyin İsyanı

Koç University Press
2018-01 | Book
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Trade Unions, Informalization and Contract Labour in West Bengal's Docks

Logistical Worlds
2017-09-13 | Journal article
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Urban Revolt

Wits University Press
2017-05-15 | Edited book
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Introducing Labor and Society

Journal of Labor and Society
2017-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2471-4607
Contributors: Immanuel Ness; Zak Cope
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Los Trabajadores en el Sur Globala

Mundo Siglo XXI, revista del CIECAS-IPN
2016 | Journal article
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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

2016 | Book
Part of ISBN: 9780230392779
Contributors: Immanuel Ness; Zak Cope
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The Future of Work

Roar Magazine
2016-06 | Magazine article
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Reconstitution of the International Working Class.

CLR: European Institute for Construction Labour Research
2016-04 | Journal article
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Southern Insurgency

Pluto Press
2015-10-15 | Book
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Labour Migration and Emergent Class Conflict: Corporate Neo-Liberalism, Worker Mobility and Labour Resistance in the US

Workers and Labour in a Globalised Capitalism
2014 | Other
Part of ISBN: 9780230303171
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Challenging Received Wisdom

Economic and Political Weekly
2014-10-15 | Book review
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India’s Global and Internal Labor Migration and Resistance

The Sun Never Sets
2013-07 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9780814786437
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Rights, Solidarity, and Justice: LAWCHA's National Conference

Labor Studies in Working Class History
2013-05 | Journal article
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Hospitality workers and migration

The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration
2013-02-04 | Other
Part of ISBN: 9781444334890
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Labor migration: an overview

The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration
2013-02-04 | Other
Part of ISBN: 9781444334890
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Labor strikes, militancy, and migrant worker collective action

The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration
2013-02-04 | Other
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The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration

2013-02-04 | Book
Part of ISBN: 9781444351071
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African Migrant Worker Militancy in the Global North: Labor Contracting and Independent Worker Organizing in New York City

West African Migrations
2012 | Other
Part of ISBN: 9781349341719
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Media(te) migrations and migrant(s’) disciplines:

Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture
2012-11 | Journal article
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Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism

University of Illinois Press
2011 | Book
Part of ISBN: 9780252036279
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Ours to Master and to Own

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Kooperativen und Genossenschaften in den USA

Luxemburg: «Den Betrieb übernehmen»
2011-03 | Journal article
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Kobayashi, Takiji (1903-1933) and the Japanese Proletarian Movement

The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
2010-04-01 | Other
Part of ISBN: 9781405198073
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The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest

2009-07 | Edited book
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Algerian Islamic Salvation Front

The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
2009-04 | Other
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Bishop, Maurice (1944-1983)

The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
2009-04 | Other
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New Jewel Movement

The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
2009-04 | Other
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Privatization and the Working Conditions of Health Care Support Staff

International Journal of Public Administration
2009-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0190-0692
Contributors: Roland Zullo; Immanuel Ness
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The Future of Organized Labor in American Politics

Perspectives on Politics
2006-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1537-5927
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Immigrants, Unions, and the New U.S. Labor Market

Temple University Press
2005 | Book
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Central Labor Councils and the Revival of American Unionism

M.E. Sharpe Publishers
2001 | Edited book
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Organizing Immigrant Workers in New York City: The LIUNA Asbestos Removal Workers Campaign

Labor Studies Journal
1999-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0160-449X
Contributors: David Kieffer; Immanuel Ness
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African Migrant Worker Militancy in the Global North

West African Migrations
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