Andrew Ross
Andrew Ross is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. A frequent contributor to The Nation, Artforum and the Village Voice, he is the author of several books, including, most recently, Nice Work if You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times, Fast Boat to China--Lessons from Shanghai, Low Pay, High Profile: The Global Push for Fair Labor, No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and its Hidden Costs, and The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney’s New Town. He has also edited several books, including No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers, Anti-Americanism, and The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace.
Articles by Andrew Ross
On the Digital Labor Question
Transcribed from a lecture presented at September 29, 2009, at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, sociologist Andrew Ross weighs the gains of a digital paradigm in terms of labor. On the one hand, active, digitally-networked societies offer information-rich public goods that can bolster creativity and politically progressive organizing. [...]