Immanuel Ness
Professor and Department Chairperson
Political Science
Location: 3413 James Hall
Phone: 718.951.5306
Fax: 718.951.4833
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Immanuel Ness research and published scholarly work focuses on political economy of comparative labor movements, workers social organization, Global South political economy, socialism and contemporary imperialism. He is editor of Journal of Labor and Society (Brill). Ness is Senior Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Centre for Sociological Research and Practice, University of Johannesburg.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7701-5903
Education:
Ph.D., Graduate School & University Center, CUNY - 1995 (Political Science)
M.A. / Certificate in African Studies, Columbia University - 1986 (Political Science)
B.A., New York University - 1981 (Politics / History (minor))
Areas of Expertise:
Research and scholarly publications focus on workers and labor movements, Global South, logistics, platform and gig economy workers, imperialism, comparative political economy of labor, socialist political theory.
Editor of Journal of Labor and Society (1997-Present)
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Books and Publications
Hammer, A. & Ness, I. (Eds) Global Rupture: Neoliberal Capitalism and the Rise of Informal Labour in the Global South (Studies in the Political Economy of Global Labour and Work) Leiden: Brill (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2023
Migration as Economic Imperialism: How International Labour Mobility Undermines Economic Development in Poor Countries (Cambridge, UK: Polity) https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/109696/page/25 (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2023
Platform Labour and Global Logistics: A Research Companion (Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge) (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2023
Routledge Handbook of the Gig Economy (Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge) (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2023
Cope, Z. & Ness, I. Introduction: Economic Imperialism in Theory and in Practice, 1-12. in Cope, Z. & Ness, I. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism (New York: Oxford University Press) (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2022
Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism, New York: Oxford University Press, Co-Edited with Zak Cope. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2022
Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-economic Strategy, Brill, Studies in Critical Social Sciences (Stuart H. Davis, Co-Editor) Leiden: Brill (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2022
Transnational Allies of Sanctions: NGO Human Rights Organizations' Role in Reinforcing Economic Oppression, 91-104, in Davis, S. & Ness I. (Eds). Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy, Studies in Critical Social Sciences (Leiden: Brill). (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2022
"Insurgency in the Global South." New Frame, 21 September, available at https://www.newframe.com/new-books-insurgency-in-the-global-south/ (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2021
Anita Hammer & Immanuel Ness (2021) Informal and Precarious Work: Insights from the Global South, Journal of Labor and Society 24(1):1-15 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Forging a New Global Workers' Movement, Global Labour Journal, Vol. 12, No. 3 August (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
General Series Editor, Series in the Political Economy of Global Labour and Work, Brill. Book series editors: Amiya Kumar Bagchi (Institute for Development Studies-Kolkata), Marcel van der Linden (Institute for Social History-Amsterdam), Trevor Ngwane (University of Johannesburg), Huang Yu (Mizou University-Beijing), Jeannette Graulau (CUNY-Lehman), Eileen Boris (UC Santa Barbara) (Books and Publications: Other) 2021
Hammer, A., & Ness, I. (2021). Informal and Precarious Work: Insights from the Global South,
Journal of Labor and Society, 24(1), 1-15. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/24714607-20212000 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Immanuel Ness (Co-Editor) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism 2nd Edition, London: Palgrave-Macmillan, January (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2021
Organizing Insurgency: Workers Movements in the Global South, London: Pluto Press, April (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2021
Review Essay, Labor in the Time of Trump, Contemporary Sociology, Volume 49, January 2021 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Series Co-Editor, Women on the Move, Manchester University Press. Available at: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/women-on-the-move/ (Books and Publications: Other) 2021
Temporary Labour Migration and Worker Exploitation in Southeast Asia, (Ch. 4) Elgar Handbook on Migration and Global Justice, Leanne Weber and Claudia Tazreiter, Eds. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, February (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2021
Book Review, Capitalism On Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia, Perspectives in Politics, Vol. 18, Issue #4, December 2020, pp. 1209-11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592720002856 (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2020
Opinion: The Role We Must Play in Countering Racist Scapegoating Around COVID-19, with Anthony O'Brien. City Limits, April 16 Web: https://citylimits.org/2020/04/16/opinion-the-role-we-must-play-in-countering-racist-scapegoating-around-covid-19/ (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2020
Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises. New York: Oxford University Press Co-Editors: Cecilia Menjivar and Marie Ruiz. Access at: https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190856908.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190856908 (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2019
Planetizing the Labor Movement A contribution to an exchange on Workers of the World Unite (At Last),
Great Transition Initiative, April 2019 Access at: https://www.greattransition.org/publication/workers-world-roundtable
(Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2019
SÖYLEŞİ, pp. 35-40, Karatahta is Yazilari Dergisi, #14 August (Turkish Interview for Academic Journal, on International Political Economy, Labor and Global Divide) (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2019
Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain. London: Pluto Press, 2018, Co-editor: Jake Alimahomed-Wilson (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2018
Global Perspectives on Workers' and Labour Organizations. Springer: London, 2018. Maurizio Atzeni, co-editor (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2018
Güneyin İsyanı: Küresel İşçi Sınıfının Gelişi (Turkish Translation of Southern Insurgency) Istanbul: Koç University Press. Accessible at: https://press.ku.edu.tr/tr/kitap/guneyin-isyani (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2018
Indonesia: Parasitic Capitalism and the Sharing Economy (Bahasa), IndoProgress. November 12, 2018 https://indoprogress.com/2018/11/indonesia-kapitalisme-parasitis-dan-ekonomi-berbagi/ (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2018
Migration Crises: Definitions, Critiques, and Global Contexts. Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises, with Cecilia Menjivar and Marie Ruiz. Access at: https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190856908.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190856908 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2018
Serikat Buruh, Solidaritas Kelas-Buruh Global, dan Hak Istimewa Kekaisaran, 23 August 2018, Harian IndoPROGRESS. Bahasa/Indonesian language article on global division of labor and limitations and potential for building international of worker solidarity.
(Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2018
The rise of a new labour export state? Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong. Abstrakt. October 14, 2018. http://www.abstraktdergi.net/author/immanuel-ness/ (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2018
Acción obrera directa y control de fábricas en Estados Unidos in Dario Azzellini, Immanuel Ness (Eds.), Poder obrero: control y autogestión obrera desde la comuna hasta el presente, Madrid: La Ojeva Roja, 2017, pp. 411-436 (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2017
Poder Obrera, Dario Azzellini, Immanuel Ness (Editors), 2017, Madrid: La Ojeva Roja. Access at: https://www.marcialpons.es/libros/poder-obrero/9788416227150/ (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2017
Trade Unions, Informalization and Contract Labour in West Bengal's Docks, 13 September 2017. Logistical Worlds Access at: http://logisticalworlds.org/blogs/trade-unions-informalization-and-contract-labour-in-west-bengals-docks (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
Urban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People's Movements in the Global South, Edited by Trevor Ngwane, Luke Sinwell, Immanuel Ness. Johannesburg, SA: Wits University Press. Accessible at: http://witspress.co.za/catalogue/urban-revolt/ (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2017
Karşı-İşgal, Chapter title: Amerika Birleşik Devletleri'nde Doğrudan İşçi Eylemleri ve Fabrika Denetimi, Edition: 1, Publisher: Siyah-Beyaz, Editors: Deniz Gürler, Ayşegül Sandıkçıoğlu Gürler. Chapter focus on workers' direct action and factory control in United States of America. Translated from English to Turkish by Cagatay Edgucan Sahin. Access at: https://www.academia.edu/36901357/Amerika_Birle%C5%9Fik_Devletleri_nde_Do%C4%9Frudan_%C4%B0%C5%9F%C3%A7i_Eylemleri_ve_Fabrika_Denetimi (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2016
Los Trabajadores en el Sur Globala, Mundo Siglo XXI, revista del CIECAS-IPN, Núm. 40, Vol. XII, 2016, pp. 5-12 at http://67.192.84.248:8080/bitstream/10469/11035/1/REXTN-MS40-01-Ness.pdf
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
Reconstitution of the International Working Class. CLR: European Institute for Construction Labour Research, 2016-04, pp.28-32. Access at: http://archive.uva-aias.net/uploaded_files/regular/CLRNews2-2016.pdf (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, London: Palgrave-Macmillan (Second Edition, 2019). Access at: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230392779 (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2016
Working-Class Militancy in the Global South, Roar Issue #2 (Summer) Special issue on the future of work. https://roarmag.org/issues/future-of-work/ (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2016
Introduction. Solidarity Unionism: Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below
by Staughton Lynd. Oakland, PM Press (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2015
Ness, I. (2015, September 21). U.S. Labour Law at 80: Enduring Relevance of Class Struggle Unionism. Counterpunch. https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/21/us-labor-law-at-80-the-enduring-relevance-of-class-struggle-unionism/ (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2015
Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class. London: Pluto, 2015. Access at: https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo22357482.html (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2015
Challenging Received Wisdom: Review Essay, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 49, Issue No. 46, 15 Nov, 2014. https://www.epw.in/author/immanuel-ness (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Labour Migration and Emergent Class Conflict: Corporate Neo-Liberalism, Worker Mobility and Labour Resistance in the US, in M. Atzeni (Ed.) Workers and Labour in a Globalised Capitalism. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014 (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2014
Lessons for Building a Democratic Workers State, Viewpoint Magazine, October 3, 2014 at https://www.viewpointmag.com/2014/10/03/lessons-for-building-a-democratic-workers-state/ (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2014
New forms of worker organization : the syndicalist and autonomist restoration of class-struggle unionism. Oakland: PM Press. Access at: https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=628 (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2014
Rights, Solidarity, and Justice: Lawcha's National Conference (Ness and Shelton Stromquist) Labor: Studies in Working Class History, 2013, 10 (2): 7-8. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2071670 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell Access at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444351071 (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2013
India's Global and Internal Labor Migration and Resistance in The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power. Vivek Bald, Miabi Chatterji, Sujani Reddy and Manu Vimalassery. New York: NYU Press, 2013 (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2013
Merchants of Menace, Repressing Workers in India's New industrial Belt: Violations of workers' and trade union rights at Maruti Suzuki India, Ltd. International Commission for Labor Rights (member of research team in May-June 2013. Contributor to report published in July 2019 Access at: www.nlginternational.org/report/Merchants_of_Menace.pdf (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2013
No-Strike Pledge, World War I and World War II, Melvyn Dubovsky, "The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History," New York: Oxford University Press (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
Review of, Mexico and Its Diaspora in the United States: Policies of Emigration since 1848. By Alexandra Délano. Perspectives in Politics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S153759271300041 vPublished online: 21 May 2013
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
Cooperatives and Workers-Owned Enterprises as Transformative Strategies. Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO). https://www.geo.coop/story/cooperatives-and-workers-owned-enterprises-transformative-strategies (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2012
India's Auto Giant Seeks to Crush Independent Union, Z Magazine, September 3 (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2012
Maty Bâ, Saër; Ness, ImmanuelMedia(te) migrations and migrant(s') disciplines: Contrasting approaches to crossings, Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, 2/7, pp. 173-180 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. Access at: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/37xdd4ze9780252036279.html (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2011
Kooperativen und Genossenschaften in den USA: Gestern und Heute, Luxemburg, 3 Oktober 2011 https://www.zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/immanuel-ness/
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
Ours to Master and to Own: Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present (Dario Azzellini, Co-Editor). Chicago: Haymarket Books. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/authors/118-immanuel-ness (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2011
"Will Today's Economic Woes Ignite Revolutions?" Christian Science Monitor, August 2, p. 28 (Commentary/Print) (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2009
International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present, (Eight Volume Set). Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell Access at: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+International+Encyclopedia+of+Revolution+and+Protest%3A+1500+to+the+Present%2C+8+Volume+Set-p-9781405184649 (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2009
NED and the Empire's New Clothes, James Ciment & Immanuel Ness, September 8, available at: https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/ned-and-the-empires-new-clothes-by-immanuel-ness/ (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2009
The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History (Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day, Immanuel Ness, Editors) New York: Routledge (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2009
Forging a Migration Policy for Capital: Labor Shortages and Guest Workers, New Political Science, Vol. 29: 4, pp. 429-452. Access at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07393140701688321 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2007
The Rise of Migrant Worker Militancy, October 9, Dollars & Sense, available at: The Rise of Migrant Worker Militancy (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2006
Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, New York: Taylor & Francis, 2005 Available at: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315704784 (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2005
Immigrants Unions and the New U.S. Labor Market. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005. Access at: http://tupress.temple.edu/book/0012 (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2005
Central Labor Councils and the Revival of American Unionism: Organizing for Justice in Our Communities: Organizing for Justice in Our Communities, New York, NY: Routledge, (Ness & Eimer Editors) Access at: https://www.crcpress.com/Central-Labor-Councils-and-the-Revival-of-American-Unionism-Organizing/Ness-Eimer/p/book/9780765606006 (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2001
Organizing Immigrant Communities: UNITE's Workers Center Strategy, in Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies, Bronfenbrenner, Friedman, Hurd, Oswald, Seeber, Eds). Ithaca, NY: ILR Cornell University Press, pp. 87-102. Access at: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100359820
(Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 1998
Trade Unions and the Betrayal of the Unemployed: Labor Conflicts During the 1990's. New York: Taylor & Francis. Access at: https://www.crcpress.com/Trade-Unions-and-the-Betrayal-of-the-Unemployed-Labor-Conflicts-During/Ness/p/book/9781138993754 (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 1998
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Best Book Award for 2011-2012, United Association for Labor Education (UALE), Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, April 2013, Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism, Immanuel Ness (Awards and Honors) 2013
Center for Place Culture and Politics, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Fellow, 2010-11 Academic Year (Grants and Fellowships) 2011
American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence, American Library Association, Honorable Mention (Awards and Honors) 2009
Christian Bay Award, American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Access at: https://www.apsanet.org/section-27-christian-bay-award (Awards and Honors) 2006
Best Reference Source, Library Journal, Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, Routledge. Access at: http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/awards/17/all_years (Awards and Honors) 2005
Research Activities
University of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, Department of Sociology, Senior Research Associate, Centre for Sociological Research and Practice. 2021
South Africa, Labor, precarious workers and political economy, Gauteng Province, South Africa, Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg 2019
Ethnographic Research on Labor Migration in Industrial Zones of three Regions in East Asia, for project on tansnational labor and temporary mobilitity, andsocial reproduction, June-August 2018
Research on global production clusters and labor contracting systems in East and South East Asia, December-January 2017
South Africa, Research on Labor, Workers' Organizations, Informalization, and Community Mobilization in Guateng Province, June-July, University of Johannesburg, Centre for Social Change 2017
Comparative Research on Migration, Displacement, and the Media, Political, and Policy Responses in Europe and North America. Initiated in July 2016-2019 2016
Research on displacement, refugees, migration and political movements in Eastern European and Balkan transit regions, July and October, Austria, Hungary and Serbia. 2016
Logistics workers, global perspectives, Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, 2015-present 2015
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
Sam Moyo Institute for Agrarian Studies, January 16, Popular Movements Today: Class Struggles in Rural and Urban Peripheries, Roundtable 1 Chair: Issa Shivji, UDSM, Tanzania - Perspectives on the World Capitalist Crisis, January 16, Harare, Zimbabwe (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2023
The Imperialist Question in the 21st Century Conference, Columbia University, New York 'Imperialism, Unequal Exchange and Migrant Labor in the Global South', Access at: https://www.mei.columbia.edu/mei-event/the-imperialist-question-in-the-21st-century-conference April 7 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2023
Imperialism, Labor Migration and Neoliberal Capitalism in the 21st Century 2022 "Cities, Immigrants and Ethnic Groups" International Conference , Minzu University of Beijing, Beijing, People's Republic of China, November 25-26 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2022
Krizler ÇAGI, Era of Crisis International Conference, Saturday, June 11, Labour, Political Organization, Crisis (Istanbul, Turkey) (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2022
Temporary Migrant Labour and Global Imperialism, University of Toronto, Violence, Dispossession, & Profits: Class & Migration (Remote Workshop), February 26, Toronto, ON, Canada (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021
Transforming Social Movements into Resilient Organizations of Working Class Power, Paper Presented to Korean Institute of Political Economy, Seoul, Korea, June 29 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021
What is Left? Class Analysis and the Present Crisis, University of Chicago, "Immigration and Labor." May 7 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021
Working Class Spontaneity, Labour Organisation, and Revolutionary Subjectivity, Lenin OnLine, Manila, Philippines, April 22, 2020 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020
"Political Economy of Temporary Labor Migration: Supply Chain Mobility and Manufacturing in Asia," Economic & Social Research Council, The Mobilizing/Organising Nexus and the Study of Workers' Agenda, Nottingham University, UK, March 14, 2019. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
"Right-wing Populism and the post-industrial American Labor Aristocracy," The Boston Labor Conference, Massachusetts Archives and Commonweath Museum, University of Massachusetts, Boston, April 6, 2019 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2019
Address, Global Rupture: Neoliberalism and the Political Economy of Poverty and Inequality, University of the Philippines, Diliman, World Experts Lecture Series, Quezon City, Philippines, February 18 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
Contract and Temporary Labor in South Africa: Rank-and-File Mobilization and Trade Union Activism in the Construction of Socialism, Historical Imperialism, Socialism in Our Time, New York, April 14 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2019
Keynote Address, "The Global Working Class: Organization and Political Movements," Fiscaoeconomia International Congress on Social Sciences, Political, Economic and Social Issues in Retrospect and Prospect, 25-26 April, Ankara, Turkey (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
US Labor Aristocracy and the Global Divide, Labor Panel, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, August 11 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2019
Eastern Sociological Society - Mini-Conference: Globalization in Uncertain Times: Special Panel: A New Global Period of Rising Worldwide Social Protest or a "Flash in the Pan"? The Early 21st Century in World-Historical Perspective (Discussant of Beverly Silver, Savas Karatasli,Sefika Kumral Project) Baltimore, MD, February 24. Access at: http://www.essnet.org/newsite/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2018-ESS-Conference-Program-pdf.pdf (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
Disputed Territories on the EU Border: Historical and Anthropological Aspects, Interntional Scientific Conference, Political and Media Representations of Southeastern Europe in the US: National Chauvinism and its Consequences" Bucharest, Romania, September 7, 2018 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
Global Perspectives on Workers' and Labour Organizations, China Research and Development Network. Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 25 June 2018, with Jenny Chan, Eric Florence, Maurizio Atzeni. Access at: https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789811078828 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
Persistent U.S. Attacks Against "Democracy and Freedom, "US Democratization, Ruleof Law and Destabilization: Imperialism and the Problem of Red-Brown Alliance", CAM, New York, July 25 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2018
Presidential Lecture, "Global Capitalism and Political Economy of Contemporary International Migration," International Conference on The Migrant and the State: From Colonialism to Neoliberalism, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Patna Centre & Labour Resources Department, Government of Bihar, November 29, Patna, India Web: http://tiss.edu/uploads/files/Programme_Schedule_-_International_Conference_on_Migration.pdf (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
The Modern Aristocracy of Labour in America: Trade Unions and the Rise of Contemporary Populism Conference: Labour and Social Movement in the Age of Global Populism. City University of Hong Kong, HK, China, 24 June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
International Conference of Labour and Social History, Keynote Lecture: Working Class Spontaneity, Organisation and the Revolutionary Path: Past, Present, Future. Linz, Austria, 22 September. https://www.fes.de/e/worlds-of-labour-turned-upside-down-revolutions-and-labour-relations-in-global-historical-perspective-53rd-international-conference-of-labour-and-social-history-ith (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Invited Presentation and Forum, Imperialism and revolution, assessment and appraisal, 100 years on, Arvind Memorial Trust Library: Lucknow, UP, India, January 15, 2017 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Marxism-Leninism, Reform, Revolution and the Role of a Vanguard Party, New Paradigm Theatre, New York, June 14 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Worker's Struggle: Politics & Party, Diskusi Publik, 15 August, Kedai Kopi Kape Ri Mampang, Koperasi Riset Purusha and IndoProgresss, Jakarta, Indonesia, August 15 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Central and Eastern European Social Forum, Decline of Trade Unions and the emergence of working-class conservatism in the US, Wroclaw, Poland, March 2016 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
Global Labour Research Centre, Department of Social Science, York University, Symposium on Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class, Discussants: Sam Gindin, Viviana Patroni, Kyle Sankey, September 8, 2016, Toronto, Canada. Access at: https://glrc.apps01.yorku.ca/event/glss-september-8-2016-southern-insurgency-the-coming-of-the-global-working-class/ (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
Imperialist Crisis, Spontaneous Workers' Movement an the Question of Revolutionary Subjectivity, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, August 1, 2016 Access at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfMU064Ldug (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
International Sociological Association, Section RC 44. Movements on the Job: Theorizing Strikes and Workplace Protest in Comparative Context, Workers' Militancy in the South African Mining Sector, 2009-Present, Vienna, Austria, 12 July. Access at: https://www.isa-sociology.org/uploads/files/isa2016_forum_program_book.pdf (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
Invited Presentation and Forum, Gandhi Peace Foundation, Southern Insurgency: Rise of the Working Class in Global South. New Delhi, India, July 31, 2016 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
New Forms of Working Class Organization in the Age of Global Neoliberalism, UP Press Club, Lucknow, UP, India, July 19 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
Spontaneous workers movement and the question of revolutionary subjectivity. Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai, India, July 25 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
Worker Writers School Fall Open House on Governor's Island, sponsored by PEN, Governors Island, September 9. Access at: http://jstheater.blogspot.com/2016/09/worker-writers-school-fall-open-house.html (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016
Historical Materialism Conference, presentation and discussion of Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class, London, UK, November 5. Access at: https://www.academia.edu/18070121/Realism_Feminism_and_the_Documentary_Impulse_12th_Annual_Historical_Materialism_conference_SOAS_5-8_Nov_2015 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
Invited Presentation and Discussion at Seminar on Labour Movements. Workers' Movements in Global South, Ruskin College, Oxford, UK, November 6, 2015 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
Solidarity Unionism and Global Labor Mobilization, Labor and Working Class History Association, Panel, "Fighting Inequality, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, June 5 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
Worker Organizing Outside of Unions, Anthropology and Social Change Conference, California Institute of Integral Studies, April 24, 2015, San Francisco, California (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
Workers' Movements, South Africa, India, China, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Lessons from the labour movements of China and India, Tuesday, 27 January 2015, MTB Tower, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. Access at: http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/default.asp?11,61,3,3380 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
Autonomy of the Trade Union Movements", Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group. Kolkata, WB, India, 25 August. Access at: http://www.mcrg.ac.in/pl.asp (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
New Forms of Worker Organisation, presentation, Immanuel Ness, June 23, 2014, The Cowley Club, Brighton, Britain Access at: http://libcom.org/forums/announcements/new-forms-worker-organisation-free-book-talk-manny-ness-7pm-23rd-june-2014- (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
New Forms of Worker Organization, University of Edinburgh, Trevor Row House, AFed Scotland, June 19, 2014, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies Seminar Series, Temporary Workers, Labour Exploitation & the Future of Global Migration, Russell Square: College Buildings, G51, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, London, England, UK, 9 January 2013 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
Immigrant Worker Mobilization and U.S. State Repression, Social Science History Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 23 https://ssha.org/files/SSHA%20Program%202013.pdf (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Temporary Workers, Labour Exploitation & the Future of Global Migration, Immanuel Ness, January 9, 2013, SOAS, University of London, Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies, London, UK. Access at: https://www.soas.ac.uk/migrationdiaspora/seminarsevents/seminarseries/09jan2013-temporary-workers-labour-exploitation--the-future-of-global-migration.html (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"South-North Temporary Migration, Low-Wage Guest Workers in North America," Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, January 11
https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/11387/print/ (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
Faculty Research Group on Immigrant Workers, Global Goes Local Conference, St. Cloud University, St. Cloud, Minnesota (USA) April 10 https://www.stcloudstate.edu/immigrantworkers/conference/2012.aspx (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
Forum on Migration Series at Columbia University, Guest Workers, Temporary Labor, and the Future of American Immigration, Immanuel Ness, Brooklyn College; Tuesday, January 31, 6 pm, Barnard Hall Available at: http://www.gc-immigration.org/2012/01/forum-on-migration-series-at-columbia.html (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
Labor Movement and Migration in United States, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, September 29, Conference organized by Maurizio Atzeni (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"La rebelión de la población obrera sobrante", II Jornadas Internacionales de Investigación: La crisis y la revolución en el mundo actual, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 11 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
Workers' Centers and Migrant Labor Organizing, Research and Education Center for Fair Labor
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan, November 15-18 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006
Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, "Workers of the world: Class struggle and the politics of global labour migration," October 5, Kolkata, India, Access at: http://idsk.edu.in/special-lectures/ (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005
"Native-Born Workers and Migrant Labor," Globalization with a Human Face, William Patterson University, Wayne, New Jersey, November 31 http://rowan.njvid.net/show.php?pid=njcore:22907 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003
Professional Leadership
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Labor and Society (Published by Brill). Go to https://brill.com/view/journals/jlso/jlso-overview.xml
Go to website to submit manuscripts, articles, and reviews. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2021
Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Migration Affairs, Tata Institute for Social Sciences http://tiss.edu/view/6/mumbai-campus/centre-for-development-practice-and-research/journal-3/ (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2019
FSECON, Fiscaoeconomia: Journal of Social Sciences (Ankara, Turkey) Publishing Board, 2018-Present https://dergipark.org.tr/download/article-file/480803 (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2018
Conference Organizer, The 2017 Centenary of the Russian Revolution, New York, Brooklyn College Graduate Center for Worker Education, November 7 (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2017
Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York, International Committee, Chair January 2016-Present. Access at: https://www.psc-cuny.org/international-committee (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2016
Humanities and Social Sciences, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, September 2015-May 2019 (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2015
International Labour Process Conference, Labour Migration Stream, Organizer and Co-Chair, Presenter, Athens, Greece, April 13-15, 2015. Access at: https://ewds.strath.ac.uk/Portals/56/ilpc2015-docs/ilpc2015-timetable.pdf (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2015
Series Editor, Wildcat, Labour Struggles in Contemporary Capitalism, Pluto Press (2015-Present). Access at: https://www.plutobooks.com/pluto-series/wildcat/ (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2015
Book Series Editorial Board, Studies in Global Migration History, Brill, 2014 to 2020. Access at: https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004271364/B9789004271364_001.xml?crawler=true (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2014
Border Crossing Observatory, Melbourne Australia (Collaborator 2014-Present). Access at: https://arts.monash.edu/social-sciences/border-crossing-observatory/our-people/#others (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2014
International Sociological Association, Yokohama, Japan, Section Organizer, JS-80 - Temporary and Precarious Migration and the Securitized State. Human Rights, Culture and Belonging in an Age of Economic and Moral Austerity (Session Organized with Claudia Tazreiter. July 2014 (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2014
Labor and Working Class History Association, Conference Organizer/Co-Chair, Labor, Rights, Solidarity, June 6-8, 2013. Access at: https://www.lawcha.org/annualmeeting/nyc2013/ (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2013
Pedagogical Achievements
American Political Science Association, Co-founder Labor Group, Chicago, Illinois 2007
Community Activities
Founder and Chair, New York Peace Council, Official branch of US Peace Council and World Peace Council. 2019
Guest Professorship, Ethnographic Research and Presentation at University of Hyderabad in honor of Rohith Vemula, Hyderabad, India, January 13-16, 2016. 2016
Council of the City of New York Proclamation, Lower East Side Community Labor Organization, May 2001. 2001
Other Professional Activities
Editorial Board, FISCAOECONOMIA Journal of Social Sciences, Ankara Turkey 2023
International Editor, Çalisma ve Toplum: Ekonomi ve Hukuk dergisi (Turkish Journal of Labor and Society) 2022
Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, Belgrade (2020-Present) 2020
Supervision and External Reviewer, Dissertations, University of Kwa Zulu Natal, University of Connecticut (USA) York University, Toronto, CUNY Graduate Center, Victoria University, Western Sydney University, Victoria University of New Zealand, 2014-Present 2020
