Anthropology of Work Review
Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Work @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social
Editors: @jasminefolz.bsky.social
@letha-b.bsky.social @valuequestion.bsky.social
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewI've just published "You can't see the workers from above”: The Myth of European “Formality” and the Fight for Essential Informal Workers' Legalization in Spain. From the Series: Where Have All the Workers Gone? #anthropology #antropología #informality #regularization www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewLearn more about the 2026 SEA 46th Annual Meeting - April 9–11, 2026 in Fort Collins, CO - at econanthro.org/meet/... #anthropology
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work Review“The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time. It was present at its own making.” -English poet, activist, and historian E. P. Thompson, born on this day in 1924. His writing remains influential, partly because it still takes a stand. #Writer #Historian #History #BOTD
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewFiona McCormack’s essay, “Marine Inequality, Borderization, and the Radical Potential of Kinship,” engages with climate, capitalism, and decolonial critique, examining how marine spaces materialize global inequalities through regimes of extraction, governance, and labor.
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work Review63. The Anthropology Professor in an Amazon Warehouse To learn what conditions are really like for Amazon workers, an anthropologist has joined their ranks #TabClosed2026 #AnthroSky
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewJust seeing this article… here to boost our AI workers inquiry tool and AI implementation bingo as a starting point for collectively contesting genAI in your workplace: www.workersdecide.tech
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewOn my reading list for early 2026: The International Sociological Association's magazine just published a special issue on Michael Burawoy globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewCultural anthropology latest Hot Spots Series, “Where have all the workers gone?” is both "an empirical question that ethnographers often encounter in the field" and "an epistemological reflection on where anthropologists today locate labor, work(ers), and their struggles"
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work Review2. Christopher Lingelbach's review of Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia, by Marina Welker anthrowork.org/book-reviews...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewHow did the Covid-19 pandemic lay bare and exacerbate changes in work and labor? Our latest Hot Spots series is a global look at how labor has changed as a social form and object of study.
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewIn Elana Resnick's research on race and waste in Bulgaria, "containability is a fantasy of material and social boundedness—that people who collect waste, racialized as nonwhite, can be sequestered out of white purview." www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewJoin Capacitor Collective as they celebrate the release of NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY, "an exemplary demonstration of how inquiry can function simultaneously as a mode of collective action and a form of critical theory." 2/12/26 in Toronto and 2/13/26 Montreal. Save the dates!
- Proshant Chakraborty @proshant.bsky.social reviews Jathan Sadowski's @jathansadowski.com 'The Mechanic and the Luddite' over on the @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Exertions site
- Check two recent book reviews by SAW (Post 1/2) 1. Proshant Chakraborty's review of The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism, by Jathan Sadowski anthrowork.org/book-reviews...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work Review"History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots." -Michel-Rolph Trouillot
- More than 400 years of history and a decade of advocacy were torn down Thursday afternoon when National Park Service employees removed every single display at the President’s House. 🔗 What's next? We explain: www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewCheck out Avdhesh Kumar's review of The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office, by Ilana Gershon anthrowork.org/book-reviews...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewHi Everyone! If you want an intro to immigration control in the US, how sanctuary policies actually reinforce ICE/CBP efforts, and my take on the siege of Minneapolis, listen to my conversation with Gene Demby on today’s episode of Code Switch on @npr.org podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewPoLAR DEF Anna Kirstine Schirrer's research with CARICOM appeared in the PoLAR this year. And her edited series on reparations is free to read on PoLAR Online: polarjournal.org/2020/07/31/s...
- holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewIn 2024, we convened a group of 25 workers and organizers across the transportation supply chain. They traveled over 3 days and 600+ miles across Nevada to tour the frontlines of new lithium mining in the US. Watch our new documentary that follows their journey. climateandcommunity.org/nvfilm
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewSanctuary policies, praised for safeguarding immigrants, paradoxically expand ICE's influence. Anthropologist Peter Mancina shares insights from his book "On the Side of ICE" and his experience with New Jersey police force. Hear him on today's episode of NPR's Code Switch:
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewIn this interview, anthropologist Rishabh Raghavan reflects on the role of refusal not only in his work theorizing labor and toxicity in southern India, but also in his interactions with his interlocutors - fishermen who refused certain lines of inquiry. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewPort of Oakland longshoremen sent the Ever Macro to the Port of Tacoma with a memorial message for Renee Good www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewNew book on labor precarity in China, Japan, and France
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewIrene Vega wrote a new book called Bordering on Indifference that’s an ethnography of ICE and CBP agents! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewSome extracts from "The King of Bangkok", a graphic ethnography exploring urban migration, long-distance family relationships, and the uneven, sometimes damaging consequences of economic development for workers in Thailand. #anthropology #ethnography #graphicnovel #Thailand
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work Review5. There's something so evocative about Alex Blanchette's use of language in Porkopolis. I find myself repeatedly returning to his use of storytelling and his characterization of farm animals as historical subjects over and over again.
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewOut now! I've edited a special issue of New Political Economy on 'Centring exploitation in global political economy'. Link to the intro: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Other articles (all brilliant!) and a short summary 👇 1/
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewCall for Late Breaking Sessions @ the AES Spring Conference in Victoria, BC! Late-breaking sessions address urgent global, political, environmental, and disciplinary developments shaping anthropological research and practice today. Read more here: americanethnologist.org/news/call-fo...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work Review"ghost jobs" -- positions companies advertise that they never plan to fill, just to harvest your data, make themselves look like they're growing, etc. columbialawreview.org/content/ghos...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewOoooooh I LOVE this column from Caitrin - “An Anthropologist’s Guide to Better Automation.” This is exactly the kind of juicy human stuff that makes robotics so fascinating to me. cacm.acm.org/opinion/an-a...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewIn this new think piece for the JHI Blog Forum on Political Economy, Vishal Verma studies the historical linkages between labor and caste through the intellectual debates underpinning the origins and evolution of the theorization of caste across time and space. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewLimn 12 Spotlight Series Sarah Besky and Yojak Tamang deconstruct local consequences of homestay tourism. Limn 12 - Climate's Interiors Out now. limn.press/article/esca...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewNew book out!!🎉💫 How do border regimes restructure life and labour for migrant workers? How do migrantized workers struggle for a better life against all odds - and in doing so, shape the world? @gabriellaalberti.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/mig...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewSlavery, labor history, climate change are all on the chopping block as we watch revisionist history implemented - what will be hidden next? wapo.st/3LxnCgq
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewThis Labor Day, we are reading "More Than Pretty Boxes: How the Rise of Professional Organizing Shows Us the Way We Work Isn’t Working" by Carrie M. Lane Read our professor, Ilana Gershon, interviewing Carrie M. Lane about the book on SAW website: tinyurl.com/mrkuvakz
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewHere's a chart to chew on: white-collar workers say that AI saves them little or no time, but executives think it's a massive timesaver. This divide between employees and management is going to influence the future of the workforce. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work Reviewi have a PhD, i made an 18 page list of resources about why AI sucks: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewAs the winter semester is drawing to an end, the last session of the Anthropology Colloquium will have Yaatsil Guevara González (Universität Heidelberg) with talk titled "Intimate Captivities: Affective Labor and the Border Regimes of Care". January 27 from 6-8 pm in room 222, ESA West.
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewOur researchers Prof. Melissa Burch and @ch4rlotte.bsky.social investigated the web of regulations that stop formerly incarcerated ppl from applying to most FD jobs in Cali, despite the state using these same ppl to fight forest fires for pennies during their incarceration. tinyurl.com/4kw6wh3v
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work Review@emilianotrere.com @tbonini.bsky.social I really enjoyed your book and have it on my syllabus. Thanks for your work. I wrote a review of it for Critical AI: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
- There is still time to apply for our panel, co-sponsored with @easainfo.bsky.social Labour Network: P159 "The Work of Resistance: Possibilities for Labour in Polarising Worlds" #EASA2026 in Poznań in July nomadit.co.uk/conference/e... CFP closes on Monday (26 January)! @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social
- Are you working on the anthropology of labour and work? Then this may be the panel at EASA2026 for you! Submit your abstracts until January 26 2026. Tag us in your announcements so that we may repost them. We look forward to seeing you in Poznań #conference #easaanthro #anthropology #EASA2026
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewCFP EASA 2026: Beyond Polarised Histories of Anthropologies: Female Ethnographers and Folklorists between the Mid-19th and Early 20th Centuries [History of Anthropology Network (HOAN)] Panel P083 "Beyond Polarised Histories of Anthropologies: Female Ethnographers and Folklorists between the…
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work Review#CfP #EASA The #EASA2026 conference "Anthropology: Possibilities in a Polarised World", held at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, 21-24 July, 2026, call for papers is now open and closes on 26 January 2026. 🔗 www.evifa.de/de/assets/ne... #anthropology #socialanthropology
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewJob alert at UCSD Labor Center: Program Manager! employment.ucsd.edu/program-mana...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewThis Day in Labor History: January 20, 1920. Filipino sugar workers on Oahu, Hawaii, went on strike to demand higher pay. Japanese workers joined and this multiracial strike led to victory for workers and, even rarer, a cross-racial strike with significant solidarity that helped create that victory!
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewSeminar Sustainable Platform Work: Studying the role of gender and migration in platform work www.uu.nl/en/events/se...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work Review"All Work Is Cultural Work: Diasporic Haitian Women, Paid Labor, and Cultural Citizenship" by Nikita Carney www.rutgersuniversit... #CaribbeanStudies #LaborStudies #DiasporicHaitianWomen #HumanRights #Anthropology #Sociology
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewExcited to share my review of ”The Mechanic and the Luddite” by @jathansadowski.com, one of the most important critiques of technological capitalism today, published in ”Exertions,” the Society for the Anthropology of Work’s short-form web publication: anthrowork.org/book-reviews...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewPostdoctoral Position in Anthropology – University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱 Funded postdoc role in cultural & social anthropology (ERC AlterTech). Deadline: 9 March 2026 Apply: higherjobz.com/postdoctoral... #AcademicJobs #AnthropologyJobs #PostdocPositions @uvahumanities.bsky.social @uva.nl
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewDeepa Das Acevedo, author of The War on Tenure, talks to @insidehighered.com about the erosion of tenure protections. cup.org/47OWHos #LawSky #AcademicSky #HigherEducation #HigherEd #Tenure
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work ReviewNew on the CLaSP blog: artist & filmmaker Jonathan Om interviews CLaSP's Matan Kaminer about Thai migrant workers in Israel's agricultural frontier settlements. www.claspblog.org/blogposts/sx...
- Reposted by Anthropology of Work Review'“Embedded precarity” in higher education is diminishing research quality as staff on short-term contracts favour “safer” work to secure future employment, according to the author of a new report.' Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3
