Immanuel Ness is the director of the Labor Policy Institute and Deputy Director of the Graduate Center for Worker Education. Professor Ness has been an organizer for several unions and his research focuses on worker resistance to oppression from historical and comparative perspectives. He has edited numerous encyclopedias, including the award-winning Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, Encyclopedia of Third Parties in America and forthcoming International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 1500 to Present. Professor Ness is currently completing a book on labor migration and worker activism tentatively titled, From Migration Chains to Chains of Migration: New Corporate Despotism and Worker Resistance. He is also the editor of Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society, a peer-review quarterly with Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. His articles have appeared in New Political Science, Labor Studies Journal, National Civic Review, The Nation, Z Magazine, Covert Action Quarterly, and In these Times. Professor Ness was a founder and coordinator of the Lower East Side Community Labor
Organization, which received the Council of the City of New York Proclamation in May 2001. He received a B.A from New York University, an M.A. from Columbia University and a PhD from the City University of New York.

Immigrants Unions & The New Us Labor Mkt by Immanuel Ness

(Paperback - June 15, 2005)

The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest:

1500 to the Present by Immanuel Ness, Dario Azzellini, Marcelline Block, and Jesse Cohn (Hardcover - Apr. 20, 2009)

The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History by Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day, and Immanuel Ness

(Hardcover - Mar. 30, 2009)

Trade Unions and the Betrayal of the Unemployed : Labor Conflicts During the 1990’s (Garland Studies in the History of American Labor) by Immanuel Ness

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