Robert J. S. Ross Ph.D. directs the International Studies Stream, and
is professor of sociology at Clark University in Worcester, Mass.

Mr. Ross received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1963, and
an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1966 and 1975,
respectively. He has been at Clark since 1972. He is Director of the
International Studies Stream and among the founders of the program in
Urban Development and Social Change, and an affiliate of the Community
Development and Planning program.

Since the 1980s, Mr. Ross has worked on the political economy of urban
development and the analysis of global capitalism. He still does
occasional work on the social movements of the 1960s, and is
frequently interviewed about his role in those movements. Ross has
worked as a speechwriter and policy advisor, and he writes occasional
commentary for magazines. In 1995, he began research on the resurgence
of sweatshops in the U.S. and global apparel industry, and he has
given over 100 public lectures on the issue. His work on this topic
has been published in The Nation, Foreign Affairs, Dollars and Sense,
as well as a number of edited collections of research on
globalization. His book, Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the
New Sweatshops, was published in 2004.

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