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Ross Andrew: - Andrew Ross (born 1956) is a social activist and analyst of Scottish origin who teaches at New York University (NYU). He has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, Newsweek, and Al Jazeera, as well as authored and edited numerous books. Much of his writing focuses on labor, the urban environment, and work organization, ranging from the Western world of business and high-tech to offshore labor conditions in the Global South. His writing, which employs both social theory and ethnography, analyzes the human and environmental costs of economic progress. Ross was born and raised in the Scottish Lowlands. He worked in the North Sea oil fields after graduating from the University of Aberdeen in 1978. In 1984, he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Kent at Canterbury. He joined the Princeton University faculty in 1985 and departed in 1993 to become the Director of the Graduate Program in American Studies at New York University. In 2001-2002, he was awarded a Guggenheim scholarship. She has worked as a researcher at Cornell University and Shanghai University.