Immanuel Ness was born on June 17,1958 and is an American academic, and Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York, Brooklyn, School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
15 Facts About Immanuel Ness
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Immanuel Ness's academic focus is on workers' organization, migration, mobilization and politics.
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Immanuel Ness is author and editor of numerous articles and academic and popular books on labour, worker insurgencies and trade unions.
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Immanuel Ness is general editor of the eight-volume International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present, Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, and the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, published from 2009 to 2016.
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Immanuel Ness's numerous editing projects include the Encyclopedia of American Social Movements.
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Immanuel Ness's publications appear in English, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Turkish, Chinese, and Japanese.
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Immanuel Ness is general editor of Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, a 5-volume examination of human mobility from prehistory to the present.
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Immanuel Ness was a trade union organizer in the US and labour activist in the Global South from 1989 to 2021.
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Immanuel Ness' work is rooted in understanding production and manufacturing as essential to understanding the labour movement and capitalism.
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Immanuel Ness helped organise large Mayday demonstrations in New York City, centered around authentic-worker led mobilizations for immigrant rights from 1999 to 2001, often culminating in mass arrests of street theatre and protests by New York City police, setting a precedent of immigrant leadership and participation in the US organization of the annual worldwide labour holiday.
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Immanuel Ness has been a consistent advocate for opening admission to colleges and universities and lowering tuition and fees at City University of New York.
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Immanuel Ness was elected chair of the Professional Staff Congress City University of New York International Committee in September 2016 and has been chair of the United States Peace Council in May 2018, advocating for working-class solidarity and against war and imperialism.
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In May 2021, as PS International Committee Chair, Immanuel Ness sponsored the passage of a 'No Cold War with China Resolution, now official policy of Professional Staff Congress, the faculty and staff union of City University of New York.
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Immanuel Ness's advocacy included solidarity efforts with new and independent unions that had few or limited links to trade union centers and affiliates.
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Immanuel Ness is formulating a reconceptualization of the centrality of the working class as a social force in building disciplined workers parties, accountable to mass workers and actually existing socialist states.