Misplaced Pages

#412587

30-428: Local 33 has received support from many prominent academics, including Corey Robin , Michael Denning , David Graeber , and Michael Bérubé , and elected officials, including Governor Dannel Malloy , Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy , New Haven Mayor Toni Harp , US Senator Bernie Sanders , and US Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro . In 2014, Local 33 took its campaign public at a rally on October 21, unveiling

60-868: A labor union in the neighborhood that was previously affiliated with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. The campaign expanded into a successful effort to mobilise Mexican and Latino immigrant workers along with Mexican workers and the Mexican American Workers Association (AMAT), a workers' center in New York. He helped organise large Mayday demonstrations in New York City, centered around authentic-worker led mobilizations for immigrant rights from 1999 to 2001, often culminating in mass arrests of street theatre and protests by New York City police, setting

90-452: A petition to the Yale administration with over 1000 signatures of graduate students. The second, on October 21, 2014, presented a petition with over 1000 photographs of graduate students paired with allies from the local unions, the community, and elected officials, including Governor Dannel Malloy , New Haven Mayor Toni Harp , and US Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro . In February 2015, GESO released

120-551: A petition with the photographs of over 1000 graduate students calling on Yale to negotiate the terms of a neutral election. Local 33 is asking Yale to address four main issues: fairness in teaching and funding; mental healthcare for graduate students; racial and gender equity; and affordable childcare. On August 29, 2016, following the NLRB's decision in Columbia , Local 33 members in 10 academic departments filed election petitions with

150-604: A precedent of immigrant leadership and participation in the US organization of the annual worldwide labour holiday. Ness has been a consistent advocate for opening admission to colleges and universities and lowering tuition and fees at City University of New York (CUNY). Following appointment as visiting professor at the University of Hyderabad in January 2016, Ness refused the academic position upon his arrival and actively joined

180-405: A quarterly peer-review social science publication founded in 1997 that examines global political economy, imperialism, workers and labor organisations, and assesses transformative social movements. JLSO editorial board includes scholars in academia and activists in labour movements throughout the world, including Marcel van der Linden , Frances Fox Piven Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Samir Amin . Ness

210-525: A rejection of utopian and idealist notions propounded by social democrats, anarchists, Western Marxists , and through applying an anti-imperialist state-centered Marxist approach rooted in unequal exchange between the rich countries of the Global North and poor countries of the Global South, which comprise 85% of the world’s population. Ness is formulating a reconceptualization of the centrality of

240-511: A report on the expansion of Yale College , entitled "Teaching in a Growing Yale: Critical Questions." GESO presented a petition with over 1100 signatures to the university in May 2015. The petition calls on Yale to "begin contract negotiations on issues of immediate concern including funding security, racial and gender equity, and mental health care." Corey Robin Corey Robin (born 1967)

270-500: A student strike, mass pickets, and demonstrations at an outdoor encampment to protest structural discrimination against Dalit students that was the cause of the suicide of Rohit Vemula , a graduate student. His refusal to serve as a visiting professor gained national attention in India. Yet Ness maintained, “In India, the major contradiction and division is the difference between permanent and contract, and it plays itself out in furthering

300-539: Is an American political theorist , journalist and professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York . He has written books on the role of fear in political life, tracing its presence from Aristotle through the war on terror, and on the nature of conservatism in the modern world, from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump . Most recently, he

330-560: Is an American academic, and Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York (CUNY) , Brooklyn , School of Humanities and Social Sciences . His academic focus is on worker's organization, migration, mobilization and politics. He is also a labour activist . Ness is known for his contributions regarding worker's movements and party formation in the Global South , and has worked with leading activists in India, Southern Africa, East and Southeast Asia. In 1990, he founded

SECTION 10

#1732790110413

360-588: Is general editor of the eight-volume International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present , Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration , and the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism , published from 2009 to 2016. His research primarily concerns the situation and politics of the international working class and, more generally, "the global poor", low-wage migrant labour or contractual and informal workers, mainly in

390-609: Is rooted in understanding production and manufacturing as essential to understanding the labour movement and capitalism. Fordism is viewed as an exceptional period which is not the norm; rather the dispersal of industry has pushed the development of contractors and dispersed work sites. In this way, in 1998, he co-founded the Lower East Side Community Labor Coalition in New York City with members of progressive and leftist local groups, which mobilized low-wage workers with support of UNITE Local 169,

420-457: Is the author of a study of Justice Clarence Thomas that argues that the mainspring of Thomas's jurisprudence is a combination of black nationalism and black conservatism . Raised in a Jewish family in Chappaqua , New York, Robin graduated from Princeton University , majoring in history, and received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 1999. Robin is the author of

450-418: Is the first to examine the black nationalist roots of Thomas's jurisprudence and the first book from the left to take seriously Thomas's jurisprudence of the right. It garnered pre-publication plaudits from Kirkus Reviews and The Atlantic . While Robin devotes much of his scholarly research to the right, he also writes extensively for newspapers and magazines about a wide variety of issues of concern on

480-874: The Global South . In 2013, he was a member of an eight-member delegation of the International Commission for Labor Rights investigation of worker repression in India’s auto industry. Brill, Studies in Political Economy of Global Labor and Work, Great Transition Initiative, Toward a Transformative Vision and Praxis, Planetizing the Labor Movement, April 2019, His works include Migration as Economic Imperialism: How International Labour Mobility Undermines Economic Development in Poor Countries , Organizing Insurgency: Workers Movements in

510-628: The Gig Economy 2022, and The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crisis, with Cecilia Menjívar and Marie Ruiz, Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain with/ Jake Alimahomed-Wilson (Pluto Press 2018), Ours to Master and to Own: Workers Councils from the Commune to the Present (Haymarket Books 2011/Neuer ISP Verlag 2013). The volume covers 22 case histories of factory occupations and workers' councils over

540-820: The Global South, Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto 2015). Immigrants, Unions and the New U.S. Labor Market, and Guest Workers and U.S. Corporate Despotism (University of Illinois Press 2011). His numerous editing projects include the Encyclopedia of American Social Movements (Routledge). The four volume work was recipient of the American Library Association , Best Reference Source. This numerous edited volumes include: The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism (2021) with Zak Cope, Routledge Handbook of

570-756: The NLRB. On January 25, 2017, the Regional Director for Region 1 of the National Labor Relations Board ordered union elections for graduate teachers in the Departments of East Asian Languages and Literatures, English, Geology and Geophysics, History, History of Art, Math, Physics, Political Science, and Sociology. In 2012, GESO hosted a conference on academic labor entitled, "The Changing University: An Interdisciplinary Symposium". In 2014, GESO re-emerged with two "majority petition" rallies. The first, held on April 30, presented

600-822: The New York Unemployed Committee (1990–1993), which successfully organized jobless workers at New York State unemployment centers to press for federal unemployment benefit extensions through public protests and demonstrations directed at national and state elected officials, in many cases, often members of the Democratic Party who had surrendered to Republicans during the presidency of George H.W. Bush. Rallies were held in New York City, and with other jobless organizations in Washington, DC , and Kennebunkport, Maine in August 1991. Ness' work

630-483: The New York Unemployed Committee. He is author and editor of numerous articles and academic and popular books on labour, worker insurgencies and trade unions. Most notably, he worked with Mexican workers, unions, and community organizations in New York City to establish a Code of Conduct for migrant laborers in 2001 who were paid below minimum wage. Ness is editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Labor and Society , ( JLSO ),

SECTION 20

#1732790110413

660-697: The books Fear: The History of a Political Idea , which won the Best First Book in Political Theory Award from the American Political Science Association, and The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin . Upon publication in 2011, The Reactionary Mind immediately generated tremendous controversy and discussion, including an extended back and forth in the letters page of The New York Review of Books as well as an article on

690-481: The controversy in The New York Times . But with the ascent of Donald Trump , the book came to be seen as one of the most prescient analyses of modern American politics, leading The New Yorker, in a lengthy reconsideration of the book, to call it "the book that predicted Trump." A second edition of The Reactionary Mind was published in 2018 with a new subtitle, "From Edmund Burke to Donald Trump", and

720-650: The left. In 2018, he wrote a widely noticed essay in the New York Times on the meaning of socialism today, which examines how Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are remaking a 19th-century tradition for the twenty-first century. He has written widely about the politics of labor and the workplace, and the recovery of freedom for the left. He also writes about intellectuals such as Hannah Arendt , Eric Hobsbawm , Cass Sunstein , and Ta-Nehisi Coates . Publishers Marketplace reported in March 2023 that Robin

750-724: The passage of a ‘No Cold War with China Resolution, now official policy of Professional Staff Congress, the faculty and staff union of City University of New York. In addition, Ness, helped shepherd a resolution condemning Israel for its intolerance and violence towards Palestinians. In 1990s, his research became more critical of traditional unions, and he began to participate in advancing rank-and-file self-activity outside of traditional structures through new forms of autonomist Marxist unions. His advocacy included solidarity efforts with new and independent unions that had few or limited links to trade union centers and affiliates. Much of his organizing, advocacy, and research since 2015 has focused on

780-634: The past 150 years. His publications appear in English, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Turkish, Chinese, and Japanese. Ness is general editor of Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration (Wiley Blackwell 2013), a 5-volume examination of human mobility from prehistory to the present. He was a trade union organizer in the U.S. and labour activist in the Global South from 1989 to 2021. During this period, he learned to advocate on behalf of disconnected jobless workers to organize their own association directly at New York State unemployed offices. In 1990, he co-founded

810-465: The petition be signed. Robin responded to these criticisms, providing a litany of details regarding his opinions about mismanagement and questionable use of the facility. Robin has turned his attention to the case of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas . Often dismissed by the left, Thomas has become one of the more influential figures on the Court. Robin's book, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas (2019),

840-650: The super exploitation of the labour force of this country.” Ness was elected chair of the Professional Staff Congress City University of New York (PSC/CUNY) International Committee in September 2016 and has been chair of the United States Peace Council in May 2018, advocating for working-class solidarity and against war and imperialism. In May 2021, as PS International Committee Chair, Ness sponsored

870-554: Was received positively. As interim director at the Graduate Center for Worker Education at Brooklyn College in 2013, Robin was part of the decision-making process to restructure the program. In a Portside essay, Robin urged readers to ignore a petition protesting the elimination of funding. On August 1, 2013, Portside published a statement by Immanuel Ness , editor of WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, also of Brooklyn College, countering Robin and urging that

900-613: Was writing a forthcoming work, King Capital , described as "a history of economics and its discontents," to be published by Random House . His articles have appeared in The New Yorker , Harper's Magazine , The New York Times , The London Review of Books , n+1 , the American Political Science Review , Social Research , Jacobin , Politico , and Theory and Event . Immanuel Ness Immanuel Ness (born June 17, 1958)

#412587