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Immanuel Ness teaches political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He is a labor activist, and author and editor of numerous articles and academic and popular books on labor, worker insurgencies, migration, and social transformtion. Since 2000, Ness has edited WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society a quarterly peer-review social science publication founded in 1997 listed on leading indexing services that examines workers and labor organizations from a critical, socialist, perspective. WUSA's editorial board includes: Dario Azzellini, Stanley Aronowitz, Debdas Banerjee, Steve Early, Robin D.G. Kelley, Gigi Roggero, Saskia Sassen, Ben Trott, and Lucien van der Walt. Ness is general editor of the eight-volume 4280 page Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present a scholarly reference published in 2009 by Wiley-Blackwell, recipient of numerous awards from leading libraries, and academic institutions--as well as positive endorsements and reviews. He writes on the working class, the poor, and low-wage labor, and precarious labor. His research is on worker resistance, including rank-and-file action, unemployed movements, and autonomist labor organizations. His works include Immigrants, Unions and the New U.S. Labor Market (Temple University Press 1995) and Guest Workers and Corporate Despotism. (University of Illinois Press 2011). His numerous editing projects include the Encyclopedia of American Social Movements. The four volume work was recipient of the American Library Association, Best Reference Source. He has recently co-edited with Dario Azzellini Ours to Master and Own: Workers Councils from the Commune to the Present. (Haymarket Books 2011/Herramienta 2011/Nuerer ISP Verlag 2011/TURC-Indonesia Bahasa Version 2011)

He was a trade union organizer in the 1980s and 1990s and a labor activist from 1995 to 2010. He has organized unorganized and unemployed workers. In 1990, he co-founded with Keith Brooks the New York Unemployed Committee (1990—1992), which successfully organized the jobless to encourage federal unemployment benefit extensionsbenefits through organization and participation in local, state, and national protests. He was active in local political activism from 1998-2002 as co-founder and coordinator of the Lower East Side Community Labor Coalition.

His current work focuses on new forms of union organizing, syndicalism, workers councils, labor migration, and protest movements. His current work on migration includes a comprehensive scholarly project tracing global human population from deep history to the present. The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, which he is editing with leading scholars throughout the world, including Peter Bellwood, Stephen Castles, Donna Gabaccia, Alex Julca, Hye-Kyung Lee, Adebusuyi I. Adeniran, Dirk Hoerder, among other leading scholars of migration. Ness has been invited to speak widely on union organizing in the U.S., labor militancy, and migrant worker struggles at research institutes, universities, and labor centers in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America.

Biography written by Rank-And-File Publishers/International Solidarity Movement.
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Total Books: 15
Southern Insurgency The Coming of the Global Working Class
2015 - Southern Insurgency the Coming of the Global Working Class (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780745335995
ISBN-10: 0745335993
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences
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Southern Insurgency The Coming of the Global Working Class
2015 - Southern Insurgency the Coming of the Global Working Class (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780745336008
ISBN-10: 0745336000
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences
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The Global Prehistory of Human Migration
2014 - The Global Prehistory of Human Migration (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781118970591
ISBN-10: 1118970594
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences
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International Education An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues and Systems
2014 - International Education an Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues and Systems [2-Volume Set] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780765620491
ISBN-10: 0765620499
Genres: Reference, Politics & Social Sciences
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Guest Workers and Resistance to US Corporate Despotism
2011 - Guest Workers and Resistance to Us Corporate Despotism [Working Class in American History] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780252078170
ISBN-10: 0252078179
Genres: Business & Money, Nonfiction
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Real World Labor 2nd Edition
2011 - Real World Labor 2nd Edition (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781878585783
ISBN-10: 1878585789
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Encyclopedia of Third Parties in America
2006 - Encyclopedia of Third Parties in America (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780765680204
ISBN-10: 0765680203
Genres: Reference, Politics & Social Sciences
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The New Urban Immigrant Workforce Innovative Models For Labor Organizing
Immigrants Unions And The New Us Labor Market
2005 - Immigrants Unions and the New Us Labor Market (Other)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781592130405
ISBN-10: 1592130402
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Immigrants Unions And The New Us Labor Market
2005 - Immigrants Unions and the New Us Labor Market (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781592130412
ISBN-10: 1592130410
Genres: Business & Money, History, Nonfiction
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Encyclopedia of World Cities
1999 - Encyclopedia of World Cities (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781579581312
ISBN-10: 1579581315
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Book of World City Rankings
Book of World City Rankings (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780029202302
ISBN-10: 0029202302
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Encyclopedia of World Cities
Encyclopedia of World Cities (Other)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780765680174
ISBN-10: 0765680173
Genres: Reference, Nonfiction
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Trade Unions and the Betrayal of the Unemployed  Labor Conflicts During the 1990's
Trade Unions and the Betrayal of the Unemployed Labor Conflicts During the 1990's [Garland Studies in the History of American Labor] (Other)
ISBN-13: 9780815331797
ISBN-10: 0815331797
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