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Unpublished Articles by Robert Ovetz, Ph.D.

Research paper thumbnail of Can Workers Overseas Provide Tips for U.S. Labor Organizers

CounterPunch, 2022

Book review of my book Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle (Pluto 2020) by Steve Early

Research paper thumbnail of Workers' Movements and the Global Supply Chain: Introduction

Research paper thumbnail of Carlisle petition to Congress from the 1794 "Whiskey Rebellion."

Carlisle petition to Congress from the 1794 "Whiskey Rebellion." This petition has never been dup... more Carlisle petition to Congress from the 1794 "Whiskey Rebellion." This petition has never been duplicated or transcribed. I will post the transcription when I am finished.

Research paper thumbnail of Conscious Linkage: The Proletarianization of Academic Labor in the Algorithmic University

Research paper thumbnail of The 1783 Newburgh Conspiracy: America’s First Attempted Coup (op ed)

San Jose Mercury News, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of The Newburgh Conspiracy: America’s First Attempted Coup (full version)

Unpublished excerpt from next book, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921

Journal of Labor and Society, 2019

Book review by Justin Rogers-Cooper.

Research paper thumbnail of Stopping a Charter School in Semi-Rural Northern California

This was originally written for publication in Rethinking Schools which did not happen. Feel free... more This was originally written for publication in Rethinking Schools which did not happen. Feel free to publish and circulate. Please cite author and link to https://sjsu.academia.edu/RobertOvetzPhD when republishing.

Published News Articles by Robert Ovetz, Ph.D.

Research paper thumbnail of AI and the Future of Work

Dollars & Sense magazine, 2023

My cover story on AI and the future of work.

Research paper thumbnail of How Hamilton's Financial and Manufacturing Plans Financed the U.S. Empire

Research paper thumbnail of "Bomb Trains" and Strikebreaking: How Regulation Creates Perverse Incentives to Break the Law, in the Railroad Industry and Beyond

Dollars & Sense, 2023

May-June Labor Issue

Research paper thumbnail of The Constitution is a Plutocratic Document (Jacobin magazine interview by Chris Maisano)

Jacobin, 2023

There's no reason to venerate the framers of the US Constitution. The document they created was e... more There's no reason to venerate the framers of the US Constitution. The document they created was explicitly designed to check the democratic will of ordinary people and protect the plutocratic interests of the propertied elite.

Research paper thumbnail of Management Rights, Workers Wronged (co-authored by Ovetz and van Meter)

Dollars & Sense, 2023

United States contains a provision that is weakening the labor movement and impeding the urgent n... more United States contains a provision that is weakening the labor movement and impeding the urgent need to democratize the economy. Called the "management rights clause," this provision gives management the power to make decisions about how to hire, fire, control the work process, and what to produce-without any input by workers or their unions.

Research paper thumbnail of In Supreme Court's Overturn of Roe, Problem is within Constitution Itself

Marin Independent Journal, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Trump is the Symptom of a Crisis Caused by the Constitution

Toronto Star (Can), 2022

Trump is the symptom of a crisis caused by the Constitution The framers concentrated power into t... more Trump is the symptom of a crisis caused by the Constitution The framers concentrated power into the hands of a single person to protect the propertied elite in order to provide a minority check of the majority.

Research paper thumbnail of Taylor's Digital Stopwatch

Dollars & Sense, 2022

As algorithms are being integrated into nearly every type of work and being used to automate some... more As algorithms are being integrated into nearly every type of work and
being used to automate some jobs, the upsurge of organizing at these companies will come to inform how workers throughout the country organize
against the algorithmic black box.

Research paper thumbnail of Bigger than Amazon

Dollars & Sense, 2022

There’s an employer with nearly the same output (in terms of the value of products and services c... more There’s an employer with nearly the same output (in terms of the value of products and services created) and about 10 times the number of workers as Amazon where unionizing has taken off in recent years: the nonprofit sector.

Research paper thumbnail of Any Progress in the US is Blocked by its Constitution

Research paper thumbnail of Blame the Constitution for Political 'Dysfunction'

The Progressive, 2022

Despite what we learn in school, the Constitution's "checks and balances" empower the minority to... more Despite what we learn in school, the Constitution's "checks and balances" empower the minority to check the majority.

Research paper thumbnail of Credible Strike Threats: The predicted wave of strikes didn't materialize last fall, but strike threats have proved to be effective.

Dollars & Sense, 2022

March-April issue

Research paper thumbnail of Can Workers Overseas Provide Tips for U.S. Labor Organizers

CounterPunch, 2022

Book review of my book Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle (Pluto 2020) by Steve Early

Research paper thumbnail of Workers' Movements and the Global Supply Chain: Introduction

Research paper thumbnail of Carlisle petition to Congress from the 1794 "Whiskey Rebellion."

Carlisle petition to Congress from the 1794 "Whiskey Rebellion." This petition has never been dup... more Carlisle petition to Congress from the 1794 "Whiskey Rebellion." This petition has never been duplicated or transcribed. I will post the transcription when I am finished.

Research paper thumbnail of Conscious Linkage: The Proletarianization of Academic Labor in the Algorithmic University

Research paper thumbnail of The 1783 Newburgh Conspiracy: America’s First Attempted Coup (op ed)

San Jose Mercury News, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of The Newburgh Conspiracy: America’s First Attempted Coup (full version)

Unpublished excerpt from next book, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921

Journal of Labor and Society, 2019

Book review by Justin Rogers-Cooper.

Research paper thumbnail of Stopping a Charter School in Semi-Rural Northern California

This was originally written for publication in Rethinking Schools which did not happen. Feel free... more This was originally written for publication in Rethinking Schools which did not happen. Feel free to publish and circulate. Please cite author and link to https://sjsu.academia.edu/RobertOvetzPhD when republishing.

Research paper thumbnail of AI and the Future of Work

Dollars & Sense magazine, 2023

My cover story on AI and the future of work.

Research paper thumbnail of How Hamilton's Financial and Manufacturing Plans Financed the U.S. Empire

Research paper thumbnail of "Bomb Trains" and Strikebreaking: How Regulation Creates Perverse Incentives to Break the Law, in the Railroad Industry and Beyond

Dollars & Sense, 2023

May-June Labor Issue

Research paper thumbnail of The Constitution is a Plutocratic Document (Jacobin magazine interview by Chris Maisano)

Jacobin, 2023

There's no reason to venerate the framers of the US Constitution. The document they created was e... more There's no reason to venerate the framers of the US Constitution. The document they created was explicitly designed to check the democratic will of ordinary people and protect the plutocratic interests of the propertied elite.

Research paper thumbnail of Management Rights, Workers Wronged (co-authored by Ovetz and van Meter)

Dollars & Sense, 2023

United States contains a provision that is weakening the labor movement and impeding the urgent n... more United States contains a provision that is weakening the labor movement and impeding the urgent need to democratize the economy. Called the "management rights clause," this provision gives management the power to make decisions about how to hire, fire, control the work process, and what to produce-without any input by workers or their unions.

Research paper thumbnail of In Supreme Court's Overturn of Roe, Problem is within Constitution Itself

Marin Independent Journal, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Trump is the Symptom of a Crisis Caused by the Constitution

Toronto Star (Can), 2022

Trump is the symptom of a crisis caused by the Constitution The framers concentrated power into t... more Trump is the symptom of a crisis caused by the Constitution The framers concentrated power into the hands of a single person to protect the propertied elite in order to provide a minority check of the majority.

Research paper thumbnail of Taylor's Digital Stopwatch

Dollars & Sense, 2022

As algorithms are being integrated into nearly every type of work and being used to automate some... more As algorithms are being integrated into nearly every type of work and
being used to automate some jobs, the upsurge of organizing at these companies will come to inform how workers throughout the country organize
against the algorithmic black box.

Research paper thumbnail of Bigger than Amazon

Dollars & Sense, 2022

There’s an employer with nearly the same output (in terms of the value of products and services c... more There’s an employer with nearly the same output (in terms of the value of products and services created) and about 10 times the number of workers as Amazon where unionizing has taken off in recent years: the nonprofit sector.

Research paper thumbnail of Any Progress in the US is Blocked by its Constitution

Research paper thumbnail of Blame the Constitution for Political 'Dysfunction'

The Progressive, 2022

Despite what we learn in school, the Constitution's "checks and balances" empower the minority to... more Despite what we learn in school, the Constitution's "checks and balances" empower the minority to check the majority.

Research paper thumbnail of Credible Strike Threats: The predicted wave of strikes didn't materialize last fall, but strike threats have proved to be effective.

Dollars & Sense, 2022

March-April issue

Research paper thumbnail of Credible Strike Threats: The Predicted Wave of Strikes Didn’t Materialize Last Fall, But Strike Threats have Proved to be Effective

Dollars & Sense, 2022

March/April issue

Research paper thumbnail of Coming Home from the Mines Celebrating the Centenary of the Amazon Army and Kansas Wildcat Coal Strikes

Research paper thumbnail of Strike Threats: A Crucial Tool in Building Working Class Power

Research paper thumbnail of Fluchtwege aus der Zoom-Uni Akademiker*innen kämpfen gegen die Neoliberalisierung der Bildung

Berliner Gazette, 2021

This is the German translation of my article "Zoombombed: The Proletarization of Academic Labor i... more This is the German translation of my article "Zoombombed: The Proletarization of Academic Labor in the Algorithmic University"

Research paper thumbnail of Making Threats: Credible Strike Threats and Worker Power

Global Labour Column, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review of Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder

Research paper thumbnail of Beneath the Toxic Tower

Earth Island Journal, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of High School 1327 Should Vote to Remove Drake’s Name from our School

Marin Independent Journal, 2020

Movement demands school remove the name Sir Francis Drake from the school name.

Research paper thumbnail of Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: A Conversation with Robert Ovetz and Jenny Chan

Made in China, 2022

Vol. 6 Issue 3, Sept–Dec 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Workers' Movements and the Global Supply Chain

New Global Studies, 2022

Introduction to the special issue on worker organizing at global choke points. Co-edited by Rober... more Introduction to the special issue on worker organizing at global choke points.
Co-edited by Robert Ovetz and Jake Wilson

Research paper thumbnail of Adversarial Research for Resisting the Entrepreneurialization of the University

California Sociologist, 1993

Research paper thumbnail of Class Wars: Race, Class, and Violence in the Long Gilded Age

Crtical Sociology, 2020

Justin Rogers-Cooper analyzes my book When Workers Shot Back on pages 4-6.

Research paper thumbnail of The Algorithmic University: On-Line Education, Learning Management Systems, and the Struggle over Academic Labor

Critical Sociology, 2020

The use of on-line education (OLE) to deliver higher education using learning management systems ... more The use of on-line education (OLE) to deliver higher education using learning management systems (LMS) has received growing critical attention for its reliance on precarious faculty, high dropout and failure rates, and as a form of privatization. While these critiques are well grounded, they overlook the role of OLE as a strategy for rationalizing teaching and deskilling academic labor in order to produce more self-disciplined precarious "platform" workers who can labor remotely under the control of algorithmic management. To recompose the power of academic workers, new tactics, strategies, and objectives based on an analysis of the new technical composition of capital in higher education are needed.

Research paper thumbnail of War in Europe, War on Capital: Wildcat Strikes and the Labor Planning State in the US 1917-1918

Arbeit Bewegung Geschichte (Labour-Movement-History)

The English draft and German translation of my "War in Europe, War on Capital: Wildcat Strikes an... more The English draft and German translation of my "War in Europe, War on Capital: Wildcat Strikes and the Labor Planning State in the US 1917-1918". The English version can be found here.

Research paper thumbnail of Counting Strike Threats

Monthly Labor Review, 2018

Our study shows that more workers are involved in strike activity in the US than is publicly repo... more Our study shows that more workers are involved in strike activity in the US than is publicly reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports on strikes.

Please contact me for a copy of our unpublished full report.

Research paper thumbnail of Turning Resistance into Rebellion: Student Movements and the Entrepreneurialization of the Universities

Research paper thumbnail of The Student Debt Crisis: Danger and Opportunity

Research paper thumbnail of Click to Save and Return to Course: Online Education, Adjunctification, and the Disciplining of Academic Labour

Work, Organisation, Labour & Globalisation

There has been little analysis of how neoliberal adjunctification and online education (OLE) are ... more There has been little analysis of how neoliberal adjunctification and online education (OLE) are shaping a new academic division of labour in US colleges and universities. OLE rationalises academic labour by separating it from the delivery of educational content while transforming learning into the self-disciplined completion of sequential tasks (e.g. 'competency-based learning') under the panoptic surveillance of online course management systems (CMS). OLE is subtly shifting the very hidden curriculum of higher education to meet the needs of global capital for a more effectively disciplined labour force that can work contingently and remotely with little or no overt coercion. This analysis of the process by which OLE is rationalising academic labour draws upon the ideas of Foucault and Tronti to argue that OLE is a tool for producing a type of disciplined labour that breaks down the borders between productive and reproductive labour in order to colonise all life as work.

Research paper thumbnail of Noize Music: The Hypostatic Insurgency

Research paper thumbnail of Assailing the Ivory Tower: Student Movements and the Entrepreneurialization of the University

Research paper thumbnail of Migrant Mindworkers and the New Division of Academic Labor

Journal of Labor and Society

The reorganization of higher education has been made possible by a new division of labor that is ... more The reorganization of higher education has been made possible by a new division of labor that is rationalizing and deskilling college teaching. These new relations of academic labor are disempowering the profes-sorate by transferring control over teaching to a growing middle management and automating it as online distance learning. In order to respond to this threat to higher education, it is necessary to shift the focus from the commercialization of higher education to the adjunctification of the professorate. This requires a critical rethinking of organizational tactics, strategies, and objectives of academic labor organizing. Higher education is being reorganized. Privatization, disinvestment, online courses, for-profit colleges, tuition and fees, budget cuts, centralization and outsourcing of maintenance, food service and administrative services, and the use of " adjuncts " like myself have become rampant in the past four decades. The logic of the market subtly transforming the very work of teaching is obscured by discussions about commercialization. A new division of academic labor is being gradually imposed in order to expand control over academic labor, produce labor power better disciplined for contingent work, and design and build the technology to exploit that labor power. In order to develop new tactics, strategies, and objectives to respond to these threats, it is necessary to do a class analysis of the new division of academic labor. From the Mass to the Taylorized University The academic labor of the professorate is being rationalized, fragmented, deskilled, standardized, and disempowered, a process commonly called " adjunctification. " This Taylorization of academic labor is proceeding in order to increase " output " of both the exploitation of adjunct faculty and the students disciplined and trained for flexible, part-time, contingent work. 1 The adjunctification of academic labor is the dominant model for the relations of contingent labor throughout the economy. 2 Prior to World War II, higher education almost entirely served the elite and played little direct role in the disciplining of labor power. However, the wildcat

Research paper thumbnail of When Hephaestus Fell to Earth: Harry Braverman and the New Division of Academic Labor

Labor Studies Journal

Braverman's analysis of the changing division of labor is crucial for understanding the impact of... more Braverman's analysis of the changing division of labor is crucial for understanding the impact of the neoliberal assault on higher education on academic labor. Much like Taylorism a century ago, adjunctification of the faculty, online education, and data driven planning are rationalizing academic labor. Teaching is being " unbundled " and its components parts automated, outsourced, and transferred to a growing middle level administration. As a result, faculty are becoming " just-in-time, " deskilled, disempowered, contingent labor. This newly emerging new division of labor is fundamentally transforming higher education. No longer merely subject to commercialization, academic labor is being reorganized to resemble the interchangeable contingent work that is ubiquitous throughout the labor market. To resist these developments it is necessary for faculty to study the new division of academic labor in order to devise new organizing tactics and strategies, such as the systemwide local and Metro organizing models.

Research paper thumbnail of The Bottom Line: An Investigation of the Economic, Cultural and Social Costs of High Seas Industrial Longline Fishing in the Pacific and the Benefits of Conservation

Journal of Marine Policy

My article in Marine Policy, "The bottom line: An investigation of the economic, cultural and soc... more My article in Marine Policy, "The bottom line: An investigation of the economic, cultural and social costs of high seas industrial longline fishing in the Pacific and the benefits of conservation," Nov. 2005.

Research paper thumbnail of Rocking the Schoolhouse: Rereading "Schoolhouse Rock" in the Classroom

Radical Teacher

My 2012 Radical Teacher article on using Schoolhouse Rock in a political science class.

Research paper thumbnail of Bankrupting the Pacific: How Multilateral Development Banks are Contributing to Overfishing and Helping Push Sea Turtles and Seabirds to the Brink of Extinction in the Pacific

Sea Turtle Restoration Project

Research paper thumbnail of Running Aground: How Post 9/11 Coast Guard Policies Have Made the Ocean Less Safe

Research paper thumbnail of The Bottom Line: An Investigation of the Economic, Cultural and Social Costs of Industrial Longline Fishing in the Pacific and the Benefits of Sustainable Use of Marine Protected Areas

United Nations Law of the Sea Convention

My report published by the United Nations General Assembly, April 18, 2005.

Research paper thumbnail of Revisiting Rosa Luxemburg’s Writings on the 1905 Russian Revolution

Research paper thumbnail of Stormy Petrel's Review of My Book Worker's Inquiry and Global Class Struggle (Pluto 2020)

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review of Gavin Mueller, Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Were Right About Why You Hate Your Job (Verso, 2021)

Research paper thumbnail of Robert D. Parmet's review of my book When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921

New York Labor History Association, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Jay Fraser's Book Review of Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle in Organise!

Organise!, 2021

Jay Fraser's book review of Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle in Organise!, Spring 2021... more Jay Fraser's book review of Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle in Organise!, Spring 2021, pp. 78-81

Research paper thumbnail of Book reivew of Parenti's Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder

Journal of Labor and Society, 2021

Hamilton’s Radical Capitalism is Not the Answer to Climate Catastrophe

Research paper thumbnail of Ripples, waves, and tsunamis of working class refusal: A review of Cleaver's 33 Lessons on Capital

Journal of Labor and Society, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Organizing at Deliveroo. A book review of Callum Cant's Riding for Deliveroo: Resistance in the New Economy By

Research paper thumbnail of Book review "Ripples, waves, and tsunamis of working class refusal: A review of Cleaver's 33 Lessons on Capital"

Journal of Labor and Society, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review of Workers Inquiry Network (2020). Struggle in a Pandemic: A Collection of Contributions on the COVID-19 Crisis

Post Digital Science and Education, 2020

Book review by Mark Smith

Research paper thumbnail of Book review of Harry Cleaver's "33 Lessons on Capital: Reading Marx Politically"

Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Riding for Deliveroo: Resistance in the New Economy

Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Analyzing labor uprisings: Review of When Workers Shot Back

Livingston & McLean County Labor/Labor Culture, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Ovetz.When Workers Shot Back Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 review by Achille Marotta Marx & Philosophy Society

Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 2020

When Workers Shot Back Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 book review by Achille Marotta.

Research paper thumbnail of When workers shot back: Class conflict from 1877 to 1921

Journal of Labor and Society, 2019

Review of Robert Ovetz's amazing book!

Research paper thumbnail of Political Economy of Labor Repression in the United States

Research paper thumbnail of Class Strikes Back: Self-organized Workers' Struggles in the Twenty-First Century

The Journal of Labor and Society 2018

The path through decades of working class defeat is much discussed but little studied. Azzellini ... more The path through decades of working class defeat is much discussed but little studied. Azzellini and Kraft's book The Class Strikes Back seeks to change that by helping to fill one of the most glaring holes in class analysis today. It offers a compilation of detailed analyses of workers organizing to shift the balance of power between capital and workers, or what is otherwise known as class composition, from 13 countries and nearly every continent. Everyone involved in and studying working class self-organizing needs to not only read this book but use it as a model for continuing this long overdue work.

Research paper thumbnail of Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres

Marx & Philosophy Society, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Riot Strike Riot: The New Era of Uprisings

Journal of Labor and Society, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power

Journal of Environmental Education

Research paper thumbnail of Honest Man: The Life of R. Budd Dwyer

Research paper thumbnail of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921

Research paper thumbnail of A Workers’ Inquiry into Canvas and Zoom: Disrupting the Algorithmic University

Digital Platforms and Algorithmic Subjectivities, 2022

chapter in Emiliana Armano, Marco Briziarelli, Elisabetta Risi (eds.), Digital Platforms and Algo... more chapter in Emiliana Armano, Marco Briziarelli, Elisabetta Risi (eds.), Digital Platforms and Algorithmic Subjectivities, Univ. of Westminster Press, 2022, pp 183-200

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction to my new book We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few

We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few, 2022

The introduction to my new book We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few (Pluto 2022).

Research paper thumbnail of Public University: The Political Economy of the Public University by David Harvie, Mariya Ivancheva and Robert Ovetz

Encyclopaedia of Marxism and Education (Alpesh Maisuria, Volume Editor), 2022

Chapter 37

Research paper thumbnail of Making Threats: Credible Strike Threats in the US, 2012 to 2016

Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle, 2021

chapter 4 of my second book

Research paper thumbnail of Beyond Neoliberalism and Capitalism, Pejnović (editor)

Beyond Neoliberalism and Capitalism, 2021

My chapter "The Algorithmic university: On-line education, learning management systems, and the s... more My chapter "The Algorithmic university: On-line education, learning management systems, and the struggle over academic labor" can be found on pages 215-245

Research paper thumbnail of A Pandemia da Classe Trabalhadora nos Estados Unidos (The Working Class Pandemic in the US)

Research paper thumbnail of Class Analysis of History of Modern Police, When Workers Shot Back, ch. 3.pp 165-170

When Workers Shot Back, 2018

This is an excerpt of my class analysis of the history of the modern police created after the 187... more This is an excerpt of my class analysis of the history of the modern police created after the 1877 railroad strike

Research paper thumbnail of Workers Inquiry Network, Des Luttes dans la Pandémie Un recueil de contributions sur la crise COVID-19 (Struggle in a Pandemic)

Des Luttes dans la Pandémie Un recueil de contributions sur la crise COVID-19, 2020

My chapter can be found on pp. 47-59.

Research paper thumbnail of Workers Inquiry Network, Struggle in a Pandemic: A Collection of Contributions on the COVID-19 Crisis

See my chapter, "The Working Class Pandemic in the United States," pp. 53-67

Research paper thumbnail of Notes on Dialectics: Hegel, Marx, Lenin

This is CLR James's long out of print book.

Research paper thumbnail of When Workers Shot Back Haymarket Press web page

The paperback edition of my first book will be released Sept 3, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921

The introduction to my book When Workers Shot Back published by Brill in 2018 and in paper in 201... more The introduction to my book When Workers Shot Back published by Brill in 2018 and in paper in 2019 by Haymarket Press.

Research paper thumbnail of Robert Ovetz, When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921

The cover of my first book published in August 2018.

Research paper thumbnail of Luke Grant, "Violence in Labor Disputes," part 2 of 6

This is the long censored report on the use of strategic violence by workers and labor unions in ... more This is the long censored report on the use of strategic violence by workers and labor unions in the first two decades of the 1900s. The Commission of Industrial Relations listed the report as part of its final report to Congress but this and several others were never published. Only one copy is know to remain.
Full citation:
Grant, Luke 1915a, Violence in Labor Disputes and Methods of Policing Industry, Unpublished report, Washington DC: Commission on Industrial Relations.

Research paper thumbnail of Luke Grant, "Violence in Labor Disputes," part 1 of 6

This is the long censored report on the use of strategic violence by workers and labor unions in ... more This is the long censored report on the use of strategic violence by workers and labor unions in the first two decades of the 1900s. The Commission of Industrial Relations listed the report as part of its final report to Congress but this and several others were never published. Only one copy is know to remain.
Full citation:
Grant, Luke 1915a, Violence in Labor Disputes and Methods of Policing Industry, Unpublished report, Washington DC: Commission on Industrial Relations.

Research paper thumbnail of Luke Grant, "Violence in Labor Disputes," part 3 of 6

This is the long censored report on the use of strategic violence by workers and labor unions in ... more This is the long censored report on the use of strategic violence by workers and labor unions in the first two decades of the 1900s. The Commission of Industrial Relations listed the report as part of its final report to Congress but this and several others were never published. Only one copy is know to remain.
Full citation:
Grant, Luke 1915a, Violence in Labor Disputes and Methods of Policing Industry, Unpublished report, Washington DC: Commission on Industrial Relations.

Research paper thumbnail of Luke Grant, "Violence in Labor Disputes," part 4 of 6

This is the long censored report on the use of strategic violence by workers and labor unions in ... more This is the long censored report on the use of strategic violence by workers and labor unions in the first two decades of the 1900s. The Commission of Industrial Relations listed the report as part of its final report to Congress but this and several others were never published. Only one copy is know to remain.
Full citation:
Grant, Luke 1915a, Violence in Labor Disputes and Methods of Policing Industry, Unpublished report, Washington DC: Commission on Industrial Relations.

Research paper thumbnail of Luke Grant, "Violence in Labor Disputes," part 5 of 6

This is the long censored report on the use of strategic violence by workers and labor unions in ... more This is the long censored report on the use of strategic violence by workers and labor unions in the first two decades of the 1900s. The Commission of Industrial Relations listed the report as part of its final report to Congress but this and several others were never published. Only one copy is know to remain.
Full citation:
Grant, Luke 1915a, Violence in Labor Disputes and Methods of Policing Industry, Unpublished report, Washington DC: Commission on Industrial Relations.

Research paper thumbnail of Luke Grant, "Violence in Labor Disputes," part 6 of 6

This is the long censored report on the use of strategic violence by workers and labor unions in ... more This is the long censored report on the use of strategic violence by workers and labor unions in the first two decades of the 1900s. The Commission of Industrial Relations listed the report as part of its final report to Congress but this and several others were never published. Only one copy is know to remain.
Full citation:
Grant, Luke 1915a, Violence in Labor Disputes and Methods of Policing Industry, Unpublished report, Washington DC: Commission on Industrial Relations.

Research paper thumbnail of Entrepreneurialization, Resistance, and the Crisis of the Universities: A Case Study of the University of Texas at Austin

Research paper thumbnail of The Fast Food College: The Impact of On-Line Education on Academic Labor and Faculty Shared Governance

Unpublished draft, 2016

On-line education is rationalizing and fragmenting faculty labor into discreet parts and allocati... more On-line education is rationalizing and fragmenting faculty labor into discreet parts and allocating it to an assembly line of adjunct faculty, corporate contractors, staff technicians, and administrators. This emerging division of academic labor is a dangerous threat to faculty control over teaching and participation in shared governance. The model for this new division of academic labor is an Arizona public community college, Rio Salado, which uses coercive data driven pre-dictive modeling to move students through standardized courses taught asynchronously along a virtual assembly line. The Rio Salado model is being used in California to deskill and disempower community college faculty, threatening public higher education as we know it. A critical understanding of this newly emerging division of academic labor in order to draw lessons for faculty organizing to shift the balance of control over teaching and governance. For profit universities are being touted as the model of public higher education of the future, one composed of mostly adjunct faculty teaching large numbers of students on an automated higher education assembly line. But the for profits are not the model of the future. Rather, they are merely knock off versions of the little known Arizona public Rio Salado College. This statewide community college is almost completely on-line and attracts primarily low waged full-time workers into virtual classrooms taught almost entirely by deskilled, disempowered adjuncts professors. The Rio Salado model illustrates the newly emerging division of academic labor in which cloned classes focused on task completion rather than learning are taught remotely by an assembly line of adjuncts, outside corporate contractors, and non-faculty staff technicians. Stripped of their contribution to shared governance, adjuncts and the few full-time faculty that oversee them are being deskilled and disempowered, much of what they do transferred to administrators and staff technicians. ! ! In this rapidly emerging model faculty working conditions have become the flip side of student learning conditions. Low-waged contingent adjuncts are teaching primarily first generation working class and students of color tracked into to low cost, high output on-line degree programs that in turn channel students into low waged service work and a lifetime of student debt. The rapidity in which this change is occurring makes it urgent that the new division of academic labor be critically examined so as to inform new strategies for faculty organizing and resistance.

Research paper thumbnail of Interview with Gig Economy Project podcast

Brave New Europe, 2021

Recording and transcript of my interview with Ben Wray of the Gig Economy Project podcast

Research paper thumbnail of Interview on the KSKQ Brain Labor Report

KSKQ Brain Labor Report, 2020

Interview about my book When Workers Shot Back begins at 19:30.

Research paper thumbnail of Interview on the WRFU World Labor Hour

World Labor Hour , 2020

The interview about my book When Workers Shot Back starts at 30:20.

Research paper thumbnail of This Is America #117: Out of the Firing Pan, Into the Fire, May 20, 2020

This Is America/It's Going Down, 2020

I am interviewed during this episode about the wave of wildcat strikes in the US during the pande... more I am interviewed during this episode about the wave of wildcat strikes in the US during the pandemic.

Research paper thumbnail of The Working Class Pandemic: Wildcat Strikes and Working Class Self-Organizing in the US