348:, tells the story of the Palestinian stone industry, along with its stonemasons and construction workers. Based on extensive field interviews, the book documents the conditions and challenges of workers in quarries and factories in the West Bank and it follows their movement across the Green Line to work on Israeli construction sites. Stone Men won the Palestine Book Award for Social History in 2019.
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Ross has been active in the anti-sweatshop movement since the mid-1990s. From the late 1990s, he has turned his attention to the academic labour movement, both in the national AAUP, and at NYU as a vocal supporter of the graduate student union, and as a founding member of
Faculty Democracy. In 2007,
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burden that has accumulated over the last two decades. The book considers some of the legal and moral principles of the
Jubilee South movement–aimed at repudiating external debts of developing countries–and adapts them to the situation of household debtors in the North.
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In 2015, Ross helped to launch NYU's Prison
Education Program Research Lab, and he is its current director. The Lab's faculty and formerly incarcerated students do research on carceral debt. His latest book,
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