Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis
Chair, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis
University of Kent at Canterbury, Ph.D. 1984
Aberdeen University, M.A. 1978
Selected Works
Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade-Lessons from Shanghai (Pantheon, 2006; Vintage, 2007)
Co-Editor, Anti-Americanism (NYU Press, 2005)
Low Pay, High Profile: The Global Push for Fair Labor (New Press, 2004)
No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and its Hidden Costs (Basic Books, 2002)
The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney's New Town. (Ballantine, 1999)
Real Love: In Pursuit of Cultural Justice. (NYU Press, 1998)
Editor, No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade and the Rights of Garment Workers. (Verso, 1997)
Editor, Science Wars. (Duke Univ. Press, 1996)
Co-Editor, Microphone Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture. (Routledge, 1994)
The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life: Nature's Debt to Society. (Verso, 1994)
Strange Weather: Culture, Science and Technology in the Age of Limits. (Verso, 1991)
Co-Editor, Technoculture. (Minnesota, 1991)
No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture. (Routledge, 1989)
Editor, Universal Abandon? The Politics of Postmodernism. (University of Minnesota Press, 1988)
The Failure of Modernism: Symptoms of American Poetry. (Columbia University Press, 1986)
Fellowships/Honors
Guggenheim Fellow, 2001-2002
Stauffer Bicentennial Fellow, Princeton University, 1989-1992
Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 1989-1990
Research Fellow, Unit for Criticism and Theory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1983-1984
Research Interests
labor and work; urban and suburban studies; intellectual history; social and political theory; science; ecology and technology; cultural studies
Affiliations
American Association of University Professors and the American Studies Association Modern Language Association