Carnegie Council

John Bowe is an award-winning author and journalist.

He has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, The American Prospect, National Public Radio’s This American Life, McSweeney’s, and others. He is the co-editor of Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs, one of Harvard Business Review’s best books of 2000, and co-screenwriter of the film Basquiat.

In 2004, he received the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, the Sydney Hillman Award for journalists, writers, and public figures who pursue social justice and public policy for the common good, and the Richard J. Margolis Award, dedicated to journalism that combines social concern and humor. 

Resources by this Author:

• Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
• Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy