Publisher Description

The Routledge Handbook of the Anthropology of Labor offers a cross-cultural examination of labor around the world and presents the breadth of a growing and vital subfield of anthropology.As we enter a new crisis-ridden age, some laboring people are protected, while others face impoverishment and death, as they work in unsafe conditions, migrate to gain livelihoods, languish in the unwaged sector, and become targets of law enforcement. The contributions to this volume address questions surrounding the categorization and visibility of work, the relationship of labor to the state, and how divisions of labor map onto racial, gendered, sexual, and national inequalities. In addition to the emotional dimensions and subjectivities of labor, the book also examines how laborers can articulate common experiences and identities, build organizational forms, and claim power together. Bringing together the work of an impressive group of international scholars, this Handbook is essential for anthropologists with an interest in labor and political economy, as well as useful for scholars and students in related fields such as sociology and geography.

Author Biography

Sharryn Kasmir is Professor of Anthropology at Hofstra University, USA. Lesley Gill is Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University, USA.

Table of Contents

PART IDivisions of labor 11 To have a life: labor reproduction, value, and negative value Susana Narotzky2 The many workers of capitalism Aviva Chomsky3 Labour, property and persons: refl ections from Papua New Guinea Keir Martin4 Labor and merchant capitalism in Myanmar and Thailand Stephen Campbell5 Between the labor theory of value and the value theory of labor: aprogram note Don Kalb6 Social reproduction and the heterogeneity of the population as labour Gavin Smith7 Labor in the time of COVID- 19 (with apologies toGabriel García Márquez) Andrew HerodPART IIOrganizing, mobilizing, and resisting 8 Labour organisation: 'traditional' trade unions and beyond Sian Lazar9 Class analysis across the "Capitalist/ Communist" divide: practicing theanthropology of labor in Kerala and Cuba Luisa Steur10 New forms of labor and resistance in the era of fi nancialization Ida Susser11 International unions as a sphere of working- class (re)organization:anthropological insights into Latin American steel workers Julia Soul12 Working- class, political organization, and popular economy in Argentina María Inés Fernández Álvarez13 Factory takeovers for production under self- management: threeexamples from Europe Dario Azzellini14 Laboring for whiteness: the rise of Trumpism and what that tells usabout racial and gendered capitalism in the United States Jeff Maskovsky and Julian Aron Ross15 Food, labor, and political struggle Steve Striffl erPART IIIWorkplaces, non- places, and labor regimes 16 Working the supply chain: towards an anthropology ofmaritime logistics Elisabeth Schober17 Space– time compression: the workplace regime of transnationalcapitalist agriculture in northern Mexico Christian Zlolniski18 Tea in troubled times: labour in Indian postcolonial plantations Jayaseelan Raj19 Two workplaces and a revolution: labor in brick kilns and foodfactories in western lowland Nepal Michael Hoff mann20 Freedom at work inside and outside the gig economy Deepa Das Acevedo21 In the Romanian bubble of outsourced creativity Oana MateescuPART IVMigrant labor 22 Border walls and passages: eff ects on labor exploitation Josiah Heyman23 The unmaking of Puerto Rican migrant farmworkers in the 1970s Ismael García Colón24 Contract migrant farmworkers in North America: "free" tobe "unfree" Leigh Binford25 Migration, "aff ective" labour and capitalist reproduction Winnie Lem26 Going global: Philippine migrant encounters with mobile capital Pauline Gardiner Barber27 Social justice writing and photography: the reality checkand beyond David Bacon and John W. McKerleyPART VAff ect, values, and subjectivity of labor 28 A strike to remember: ethnographic refl ections on the conditions ofpossibility for labor resistance in the US heartland Chandana Mathur29 'We are supposed to be the middle class': intra- personal responsibilities,hierarchical development projects and union mobilisation on Zambia'sCopperbelt Thomas McNamara and James Musonda30 Technologies of transformation Andrew Sanchez31 Beyond birthing: the labor(s) of doulas and Black birth workers D á na- Ain Davis32 Class and labor organization in building ships and dreams Manos Spyridakis33 Unruly workers and laborless landscapes: the role of marginal placesand redundant people in energy transitions Jaume Franquesa

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