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Founded in 1980, the Society for the Anthropology of Work seeks to advance the study of work in all its aspects by scholars from across the discipline.

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Book Review: Tackling the Everyday - Society for the Anthropology of Work Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football, by Tracie Canada (2025). Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

Check out Xavier Smalls' review of Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football, by Tracie Canada

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05.03.2026 23:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Book Review: The Pandemic Workplace - Society for the Anthropology of Work The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office, by Ilana Gershon (2024). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Check out Avdhesh Kumar's review of The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office, by Ilana Gershon

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30.01.2026 05:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Book Review: Kretek Capitalism - Society for the Anthropology of Work Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia, by Marina Welker (2024). Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

2. Christopher Lingelbach's review of Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia, by Marina Welker

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22.01.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Book Review: The Mechanic and the Luddite - Society for the Anthropology of Work The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism, by Jathan Sadowski (2025). Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

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

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22.01.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Book Review: A Thousand Tiny Cuts - Society for the Anthropology of Work A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands, by Sahana Ghosh (2023)

Check out this book review in Exertions (SAW’s short-form web publication): Radhika Moral's review of A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands, by Sahana Ghosh. If you would like to review a book, please reach out to our editors.

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If you are an undergraduate or graduate student looking to begin your academic publishing journey, a book review with Exertions is an excellent way to do this 😎

11.12.2025 05:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Books Available for Review - Society for the Anthropology of Work If you would like to review any of these or other work-related books, please contact Dr. Samuel Weeks atΒ samuel.weeks@jefferson.edu. Descriptions can be found

If you would like to review a book for Exertions, SAW’s web-based publication, here is the list of titles available for review.
Contact editors Sam Weeks (samuel.weeks@jefferson.edu) and Thea Mercer (theaproxy@gmail.com).

11.12.2025 05:53 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Experimental Times is a beautifully written and ambitious ethnography that captures the everyday aspirations and struggles of IT workers in Bengaluru while tracing the layered complexities of India’s startup economy, from entrepreneurs to outsourced labor.

27.10.2025 18:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Moving across the Mexico/U.S. border and with Mexican hackers, Hector Beltran’s Code Work is a critical ethnography of how hacking functions not simply as a source of disruption, but as an affirmative entry point for those historically denied access to high technology.

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Congratulations to Winner of 2025 SAW Book Prize

Hector Beltran's Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands, Princeton University Press, 2023.

Honorable Mention
Hemangini Gupta’s Experimental Times: Start-up Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India, U of California Press, 2024.

27.10.2025 18:41 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

We are excited to announce the winner of the Eric Wolf Prize for the Best Graduate Paper (2025).
The winner is: Yanping Ni "China’s Dust Archives: Black Lung, Testimonial Surplus, and the Ghosts of Reform."

20.10.2025 20:53 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A bouquet of orange roses

A bouquet of orange roses

Congratulations to the five early-career scholars of work who were awarded small grants by SAW for their research.

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02.09.2025 17:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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2025 Eric R. Wolf Prize: Call for Submissions The Prize honors excellence in graduate student research. We especially invite papers that integrate political economy and bold political action into the analysis of social life.

Graduate students, the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) invites you to submit your scholarly work to the Eric Wolfe Prize. Submissions are due on September 1, 2025.

Please email your submissions to (lirani+wolf@ucsd.edu).

See the cfp below!
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27.07.2025 03:20 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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2025 SAW Book Prize: Call for Submissions In 2025, the SAW Book Prize will be awarded to a monograph with a publication date of 2023 or later.

Call for Submissions! We are delighted to invite submissions for the 2025 SAW Book Prize which will be awarded to a monograph with a publication date of 2023 or later.
Deadline is June 5, 2025.
We look forward to your submissions!
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21.04.2025 14:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Apply for Research Funding from SAW We invite proposals from graduate students and non-tenure-track scholars for two grants intended to support individual or engaged research.

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19.04.2025 20:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

We are excited to announce two grant opportunities for current grad students and post-PhD scholars who do not hold a tenure-track faculty position. The maximum amount across both grant programs is $6000. Apply by May 15, 2025. Link for more info.

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A New Collective for the Anthropology of Work Review Jasmine Folz, Letizia Bonnano, and Rachel Smith will serve as the journal's editors through 2028.

The Society for the Anthropology of Work is delighted to welcome Jasmine Folz, Letizia Bonnano, and Rachel Smith as the incoming editors of the Anthropology of Work Review, the Society’s peer-reviewed journal!

Read more about our new editors here:
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12.03.2025 00:33 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library Click on the title to browse this journal

SAW is delighted to announce the release of our December 2024 AWR special issue on Organizing Domestic Work: The Limits of Regulations in the Wake of the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, co-edited by Guest editors Alana Glaser and Cati Coe.
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18.02.2025 03:20 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thinking with Chantal Akerman’s Cinema: a conversation on reproductive labour, pedagogy and radical refusal Alice Devoy, Elena Gonzalez-Davila-Boy, Rojin Shirwan, Mai Taha and Marie Vandermeulen (LSE) discuss watching Chantal Akerman's 'Jeanne Dielman' in the classroom. They collectively reflect on Akerman...

New post up on the SAW Website Teaching Tools Section!
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18.02.2025 03:17 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Starting now til 5:45 Eastern at #aaa2023 Racialization and the Gig Economy with Shreya Subramani, Christien Tompkins, Maga Miranda, and Roxana Dobson with @gleemie.bsky.social and Sareeta Amrute as discussants: conferencedirect.zoom.us/j/8125565772...

22.11.2024 21:20 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs Anthropologist David Graeber’s theory of BS jobs provides a critical window into why modern work is so often so soul-sucking.

β€œRevisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs” www.sapiens.org/culture/davi...
β€œAnthropologist David Graeber’s celebrated theory of β€˜bullshit jobs’ continues to provide a critical window into why modern work is often so useless, soul-sucking, and absurd.” #AnthroSky #Anthropology #DavidGraeber

22.10.2024 01:35 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Inforgraphic displaying information about Making As Ethnogrphric Praxis panel at #AAATAMPA2024. The panel is occurring on WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 20th from 4:15 PM-5:45 PM in TCC 120

Inforgraphic displaying information about Making As Ethnogrphric Praxis panel at #AAATAMPA2024. The panel is occurring on WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 20th from 4:15 PM-5:45 PM in TCC 120

Hi #anthrosky. Is anyone going to Tampa this week for #AAA2024? If you are, I'd love to see you at my panel: Making as Ethnographic Praxis. We'll be sharing papers on craft-making as ethnographic practice and are delighted to have Cristina Grasseni as our discussant.

18.11.2024 17:05 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Watch SAW online at #AAA2024:
β€œThe Promise and Perils of Evolving North American Temporary Labor Programs,” organized by Tristan Call and James Daria and scheduled for Saturday, November 23 from 12:45–2:15pm Eastern Time, will be livestreamed on the SAW Facebook page.

www.facebook.com/anthrowork/

20.11.2024 06:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Watch SAW sessions at #aaa2024 online:
β€œMaking as Ethnographic Praxis,” organized by Juliet Glazer and Jimil Ataman and scheduled for Wednesday, November 20 from 4:15–5:45pm Eastern Time, will be livestreamed on the SAW Facebook page.

Livestream: www.facebook.com/anthrowork/

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SAW Business Meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SAW Business Meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Wednesday 11:45am-12:45pm Eastern, on zoom! Join our Society for the Anthropology of Work Business Meeting to hear about our resources, initiatives, and meet other anthropologists committed to broadening the study of work and labor. #aaa2024

RSVP or join on zoom: ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

20.11.2024 06:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Society for the Anthropology of Work The Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) is a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Our goal is to advance the study of work, in the broadest sense, and to communicate that ...

Hello, world! We are building the Society for the Anthropology of Work on this open, social network. Can we replace parts of our infrastructure, layer by layer, and end up with a different one aligned with our values? Let's see.

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