“Going Offshore: Academic Freedoms and Employee Rights in Illiberal Locations”

May 12, 2016
4 to 6 pm
Straub 145

Academic labor in the US is a battleground, and overseas expansion to authoritarian states in Eats Asia and the Middle East has opened a new front. In this talk, Ross reports on recent activist efforts to ensure fair labor and speech freedoms.

Andrew Ross is a labor activist and Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. A contributor to the Guardian, the New York Times, the Nation, and Al Jazeera, he is the author of many books, including Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal, Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City, Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times, Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade–Lessons from Shanghai, 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 is the editor of the recently published The Gulf: High Culture/Hard Labor — available from OR Books.

This event is co-sponsored by the University of Oregon Departments of Comparative Literature, English, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology, as well as the Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs, the Oregon Humanities Center, and United Academics.

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