Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/06/2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Location
Michael's at Shoreline
Categories
Dr. Robert Ovetz writes about the politics of the global labor movement, work, and the crisis of capitalism at the turn of the 20th century. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas-Austin. Robert is a senior lecturer in Political Science at San José State University.
Robert is the author of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 (Brill 2018 and Haymarket 2019), We the Elite: Why the U.S. Constitution Serves the Few (Pluto 2022), and the forthcoming book Rebels for the System: NGOs, Capitalism and the Labor Movement (tentative title, Haymarket Press 2024). He is the editor of Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategy, Tactics, Objectives (Pluto, 2020) and co-editor with Kari Lydersen and Kevin Van Meter of Real World Labor, Vol. 4 (Dollars & Sense 2024). He is an Associate Editor of and contributor to The Routledge Handbook of the Gig Economy, edited by Immanuel Ness (Routledge, 2022), and currently co-writing his next book on non-profits, NGOs, and capitalism for Haymarket Press (2024).
Robert has been published in eight other books in six (French, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish) languages. He is currently a labor writer for Dollars & Sense and The Chief magazine. His writings can be found at https://sjsu.academia.edu/RobertOvetzPhD and you can follow him on X at @ovetzrobert.
Register by Thursday, September 5th: demcenturyclub.org/lunch_sept2024
