Robert Ovetz

EXPERTISE:
US, California and international politics, Non-profit organizations, Labor movement

EMAIL:
robert.ovetz@sjsu.edu 

CONTACT INFORMATION:
San Jose State University
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0119

OFFICE HOURS: 
Tuesday 12:00pm - 1:00pm via Zoom
Thursday 12:00pm - 1:00pm in-person
and by prior appointment Monday - Friday 9:00am - 6:00pm

EDUCATION: 
Ph.D. University of Texas-Austin, 1996

WEBSITE: 
https://sjsu.academia.edu/RobertOvetzPhD

BACKGROUND:
Robert is a senior lecturer in Political Science at San José State University. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Texas-Austin.

Robert has worked as an aide for two members of the Texas legislature, was the executive director of the NGO Seaflow, and has worked as a campaign director and policy advocate for other non-government organizations on debt, development, human rights and ocean conservation issues. Robert led a team that successfully lobbied the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to implement the first global protections for endangered marine species from industrial fishing.

Robert is the author of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 (Brill 2018 and Haymarket 2019), We the Elite: Why the U.S. Constitution Serves the Few (Pluto 2022), and the forthcoming book Rebels for the System: NGOs, Capitalism and the Labor Movement (tentative title, Haymarket Press 2024). He is the editor of Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategy, Tactics, Objectives (Pluto, 2020) and co-editor with Kari Lydersen and Kevin Van Meter of Real World Labor, Vol. 4 (Dollars & Sense 2024). He is currently co-writing his next book on non-profits, NGOs, and capitalism for Haymarket Press (2024) and was an Associate Editor of and contributor to The Routledge Handbook of the Gig Economy, edited by Immanuel Ness (Routledge, 2022). Robert has been published in ten other books in six (French, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish) languages.

Robert is a labor writer for Dollars & Sense and The Chief magazine.

His writings can be found at https://sjsu.academia.edu/RobertOvetzPhD

Follow him on twitter at: @ovetzrobert