Ross, Andrew, 1956-

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Name (Latin)
Ross, Andrew, 1956-
Date of birth
1956-03-14
Field of activity
Education
Human rights advocacy
Journalism
Literature
Occupation
Authors
Educators
Human rights workers
journalists a
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 110162732
Wikidata: Q4758438
Library of congress: n 88109945
Sources of Information
  • Ross, Andrew. Sunbelt blues, 2021:title page (Andrew Ross) about the author (Andrew Ross ; professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University ; social activist ; contributor to the New York Times, the Guardian, and the Nation)
  • Wikipedia website, February 8, 2023(Andrew Ross ; born in 1956 in Scotland ; recieved a Nobel Prize in 1996 ; lists Failure of modernism and Sunbelt blues under credited works)
  • Universal abandon? c1988:CIP t.p. (Andrew Ross)
  • Phone call to pub., 3-23-88(Andrew P.I. Ross; b. 1956 in Scotland; author of Failure of modernism)
  • Microphone fiends, 1994:CIP t.p. (Andrew Ross) data sheet (b. 3-14-56) info sheet (dir. of American Studies Program and prof. of comparative lit. at NYU)
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Wikipedia description:

Andrew Ross (born 1956), a Scottish-born social activist and analyst, is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University (NYU). He has authored and edited numerous books, and written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, Newsweek, and Al Jazeera. Much of his writing focuses on labor, the urban environment, and the organisation of work, from the Western world of business and high-technology to conditions of offshore labour in the Global South. Making use of social theory as well as ethnography, his writing questions the human and environmental cost of economic growth.

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