Editor Biographies

 

Immanuel Ness

Immanuel Ness’s research focuses on worker resistance and social movements, proletarianization, syndicalism, and migration. He recently completed Guest Workers, Corporate Despotism and Labor Resistance (University of Illinois Press, 2011). He is also working on a manuscript focusing on syndicalism and new forms of worker representation. His work includes Immigrants, Unions, and the U. S. Labor Market (Temple University Press) and Trade Unions and the Betrayal of the Unemployed (Garland, 1998). Ness has lectured throughout the world (Asia, Europe, North and South America) and at numerous academic conferences on low-wage worker organizing and immigrants. He is editor of the quarterly journal, Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society, published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. In 2005, his four-volume work Encyclopedia of American Social Movements was awarded Outstanding Reference Source by the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association. The work was selected as best reference for 2005 by Library Journal. He has received awards for his other reference works, including Encyclopedia of Third Parties in America. In 2009, he published the critically acclaimed, eight-volume, four-thousand-page International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present.

 

Dario Azzellini

Dario Azzellini is a political scientist and lecturer at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, and a writer and documentary film director based in Berlin and Caracas. He holds a PhD in political sciences from the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, and is finishing a PhD in sociology at the BUAP in Puebla, Mexico. His research and writing focus on social and revolutionary militancy, migration and racism, people’s power and self-administration, workers’ control, and Latin America. He served as associate editor for the International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present, published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2009, and was primary editor for the sections on Latin America, the Spanish Caribbean, and the New Left in Italy. He serves as associate editor for WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society and for Cuadernos de Marte, an academic publication about war sociology published by the University of Buenos Aires. He has published several books, essays, and peer review articles, and has produced documentaries about social movements, privatization of military services, and migration and racism, covering Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia, and Venezuela. Among his works is The Business of War (Assoziation A, 2002), a book about the privatization of military services, translated and published in Germany, Argentina, Bolivia, France, Indonesia, Italy, Spain, and Venezuela. Azzellini has been invited to speak at conferences in Europe, North America, South America, and Asia.