labor and work; urban and suburban studies; intellectual history; social and political theory; science; ecology and technology; cultural studies

American Association of University Professors; American Studies Association

Major Publications

 

Books

 

Co-editor (with Terike Haapoja and Michael Sorkin) The Helsinki Effect: A Public Alternative to the Guggenheim Model of Culture-Driven Development (UR Books,  2016)

Editor (for Gulf Labor), The Gulf: High Culture/Hard Labor (OR Books, 2015)

Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal (OR Books, 2014)

The Exorcist and the Machines (Kassel, Documenta, 2012)

Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City (Oxford University Press, 2011)

Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times (NYU Press, 2009)

Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade-Lessons from Shanghai (Pantheon, 2006; Vintage, 2007)

Low Pay, High Profile: The Global Push for Fair Labor (New Press, 2004)

No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and its Hidden Costs (Basic Books, 2002)

The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney's New Town (Ballantine, 1999)

Real Love: In Pursuit of Cultural Justice (NYU Press, 1998)

The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life: Nature's Debt to Society (Verso, 1994)

Strange Weather: Culture, Science and Technology in the Age of Limits (Verso, 1991)

No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture (Routledge, 1989)

The Failure of Modernism: Symptoms of American Poetry (Columbia University Press, 1986)

 

Edited Volumes

 

Co-editor (with A.J. Bauer, Cristina Beltran, and Rana Jaleel) Is This What Democracy Looks Like? (Social Text Periscope e-book, 2012)

Co-editor (with Monika Krause, Michael Palm, and Mary Nolan), The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace (Temple University Press, 2007)

Co-Editor (With Kristin Ross) Anti-Americanism (New York University Press, 2004)

Editor, No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade and the Rights of Garment Workers (1997, Verso)

Editor, Science Wars (Duke Univ. Press, 1996)

Co-Editor (with Tricia Rose) Microphone Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture (Routledge, 1994)

Co-Editor (with Constance Penley) Technoculture (University of Minnesota Press, 1991)

Editor, Universal Abandon? The Politics of Postmodernism (University of Minnesota Press, 1988)