Andrew Ross writes about labor issues, urban environments, the organization of work, and the human and environmental costs of economic growth. He is the author of 13 books, most recently Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal (O/R, 2014), Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City (Oxford, 2011), and Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times (NYU, 2009). His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, Newsweek, and Al Jazeera.