The Routledge Handbook of the Anthropology of Labor (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kasmir, Sharryn; Gill, Lesley

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This Handbook offers a cross-cultural examination of labor around the world and presents the breadth of a growing and vital subfield of anthropology. Bringing together the work of an impressive group of international scholars, the book is essential for anthropologists with an interest in labor and political economy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000571691
• Artikelnr.: 64114111

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

PART I

Divisions of labor 1

1 To have a life: labor reproduction, value, and negative value



Susana Narotzky



2 The many workers of capitalism

Aviva Chomsky

3 Labour, property and persons: refl ections from Papua New Guinea



Keir Martin



4 Labor and merchant capitalism in Myanmar and Thailand



Stephen Campbell



5 Between the labor theory of value and the value theory of labor: a

program note



Don Kalb



6 Social reproduction and the heterogeneity of the population as labour

Gavin Smith

7 Labor in the time of COVID- 19 (with apologies toGabriel García Márquez)



Andrew Herod



PART II

Organizing, mobilizing, and resisting

8 Labour organisation: 'traditional' trade unions and beyond



Sian Lazar



9 Class analysis across the "Capitalist/ Communist" divide: practicing the

anthropology of labor in Kerala and Cuba



Luisa Steur



10 New forms of labor and resistance in the era of fi nancialization



Ida Susser



11 International unions as a sphere of working- class (re)organization:

anthropological insights into Latin American steel workers



Julia Soul



12 Working- class, political organization, and popular economy in Argentina



María Inés Fernández Álvarez



13 Factory takeovers for production under self- management: three

examples from Europe



Dario Azzellini



14 Laboring for whiteness: the rise of Trumpism and what that tells us

about racial and gendered capitalism in the United States



Jeff Maskovsky and Julian Aron Ross



15 Food, labor, and political struggle



Steve Striffl er



PART III

Workplaces, non- places, and labor regimes

16 Working the supply chain: towards an anthropology of

maritime logistics

Elisabeth Schober

17 Space- time compression: the workplace regime of transnational

capitalist agriculture in northern Mexico



Christian Zlolniski



18 Tea in troubled times: labour in Indian postcolonial plantations



Jayaseelan Raj



19 Two workplaces and a revolution: labor in brick kilns and food

factories in western lowland Nepal



Michael Hoff mann



20 Freedom at work inside and outside the gig economy



Deepa Das Acevedo



21 In the Romanian bubble of outsourced creativity



Oana Mateescu



PART IV

Migrant labor

22 Border walls and passages: eff ects on labor exploitation



Josiah Heyman



23 The unmaking of Puerto Rican migrant farmworkers in the 1970s



Ismael García Colón



24 Contract migrant farmworkers in North America: "free" to

be "unfree"



Leigh Binford



25 Migration, "aff ective" labour and capitalist reproduction



Winnie Lem



26 Going global: Philippine migrant encounters with mobile capital



Pauline Gardiner Barber



27 Social justice writing and photography: the reality check

and beyond

David Bacon and John W. McKerley

PART V

Aff ect, values, and subjectivity of labor

28 A strike to remember: ethnographic refl ections on the conditions of

possibility for labor resistance in the US heartland



Chandana Mathur



29 'We are supposed to be the middle class': intra- personal responsibilities,

hierarchical development projects and union mobilisation on Zambia's

Copperbelt



Thomas McNamara and James Musonda



30 Technologies of transformation



Andrew Sanchez



31 Beyond birthing: the labor(s) of doulas and Black birth workers



D á na- Ain Davis



32 Class and labor organization in building ships and dreams



Manos Spyridakis



33 Unruly workers and laborless landscapes: the role of marginal places

and redundant people in energy transitions



Jaume Franquesa