labor and work; urban and suburban studies; intellectual history; social and political theory; ecology and technology; cultural studies
Andrew Ross
Professor of Social And Cultural Analysis
Education
- 1984 Ph.D., Kent (Canterbury)
- 1978 M.A., Aberdeen
American Association of University Professors; American Studies Association
Major Publications
Books
Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality (with Julie Livingson) (OR Books, 2022)
Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing (Metropolitan Books/Holt, 2021)
Under Conditions Not of Our Choosing (Juxta Press, 2020)
Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel (Verso, 2019) (Palestine Book Award)
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 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)
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)