If you would like to review any of these or other work-related books, please contact Dr. Samuel Weeks at samuel.weeks@jefferson.edu. Descriptions can be found at the publishers’ websites.
Adamovsky, Ezequiel. History of Argentina: From the Spanish Conquest to the Present. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024.
Allum, Felia. Women of the Mafia: Power and Influence in the Neapolitan Camorra. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024.
AlMutawa, Rana. Everyday Life in the Spectacular City: Making Home in Dubai. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2024.
Ansell, Aaron. The Elementary Forms of Corruption: Moral Imagination and Political Change in Brazil. Chicago: HAU Books, 2025.
Archer, Matthew. Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability. New York: NYU Press, 2024.
Backsell, Jessica Inez. Provoking the Freeport Magic: Art Assemblage in Late Capitalism. London: Sternberg Press, 2025.
Bada, Xochitl and Shannon Gleeson. Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023.
Beliso-De Jesús, Aisha M. Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024.
Berry, Nicole S. Good Intentions in Global Health: Medical Missions, Emotion, and Health Care Across Borders. New York: NYU Press, 2024.
Blazquez, Adèle. Dawn Rose on a Dead Body: Armed Violence and Poppy Farming in Mexico. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2025.
Canham, Hugo ka. Riotous Deathscapes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
Cassis, Youssef and Jean-Jacques van Helten, eds. The Legacy of the Global Financial Crisis. London: I. B. Taurus, 2023.
Chalfin, Brenda. Waste Works: Vital Politics in Urban Ghana. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
Chandler, Nahum Dimitri. The Possible Form of an Interlocution: W. E. B. Du Bois and Max Weber in Correspondence. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2025.
Chao, Sophie. Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2025.
Cohen, Jeffrey H. Eating Grasshoppers: Chapulines and the Women Who Sell Them. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2025.
Cole, Tomas. Possessed Landscapes: Experiments in Conservation and Sovereignty in Southeast Myanmar. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2026.
Collu, Samuele. Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2026.
Contreras, Randol. The Marvelous Ones: Drugs, Gang Violence, and Resistance in East Los Angeles. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2024.
Cordis, Shanya, Maya J. Berry, Claudia Chávez Argüelles, Sarah Ihmoud, and R. Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada, eds. Fugitive Anthropology: Embodying Activist Research. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2026.
Corsín Jiménez, Alberto and Adolfo Estalella. Free Culture and the City: Hackers, Commoners, and Neighbors in Madrid, 1997-2017. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023.
Cox, William T. L. Overcoming Bias Habits: An Evidence-Based Guide to Creating a Joyfully Inclusive World. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2026.
Cuvi, Jacinto. The Edge of the Law: Street Vendors and the Erosion of Citizenship in São Paulo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Das Acevedo, Deepa. The War on Tenure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Daviron, Benoît. Biomass, Capitalism, and Hegemony: A Rich and Powerful History. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
Derby, Lauren. Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2025.
Edwards, Zophia. Fueling Development: How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2025.
Eitel, Kathrin. Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia: Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2023.
Fantin, Emmanuelle and Bran Nicol. Critical Lives: Jean Baudrillard. London, Reaktion Books, 2025.
Field, Sean. Carbon Capital: Climate Change and the Ethics of Oil Investing. New York: NYU Press, 2025.
Fittante, Daniel. Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs: Outsiders Inside Armenian Los Angeles. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023.
Foks, Freddy. Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023.
Forbes, Meghan. Technologies for the Revolution: The Czech Avant-Garde in Print. Prague, Czech Republic: Karolinum Press, 2025.
Fortun, Mike. Genomics with Care: Minding the Double Binds of Science. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
Funahashi, Daena Aki. Untimely Sacrifices: Work and Death in Finland. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023.
Gill, Flora. Work and Social Justice: Rethinking Labour in Society and the Economy. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press, 2023.
Gindlesparger, Kathryn J. Opening Ceremony: Inviting Inclusion into University Governance. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.
Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria. Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023.
Goldman, Michael. Hidden Empire of Finance: How Wall Street Profits from Our Cities and Fuels Global Inequality. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2026.
Grandia, Liza. Kernels of Resistance: Maize, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Power. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2024.
Green, Tristin K. Racial Emotion at Work: Dismantling Discrimination and Building Racial Justice in the Workplace. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023.
G’sell, Brady. Reworking Citizenship: Race, Gender, and Kinship in South Africa. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024.
Hage, Ghassan. Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2025.
Hammering, Klaus K. Y. Perilous Wagers: Gambling, Dignity, and Day Laborers in Twenty-First-Century Tokyo. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024.
Hansson, Erik. The Begging Question: Sweden’s Social Responses to the Roma Destitute. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2023.
Helmreich, Stefan. A Book of Waves. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
Hoffman, Marcelo. Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024.
Honneth, Axel. The Working Sovereign: Labour and Democratic Citizenship. Cambridge: Polity, 2024.
Horowitz, Daniel. Bear With Me: A Cultural History of Famous Bears in America. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2025.
Huynh, Jennifer. Suburban Refugees: Class and Resistance in Little Saigon. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2025.
Jeursen, Thijs. The Vigilant Citizen: Everyday Policing and Insecurity in Miami. New York: NYU Press, 2023.
Kaminer, Matan. Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024.
Kaneff, Deema and Kristen W. Endres. Explorations in Economic Anthropology: Key Issues and Critical Reflections. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2023.
Kelly, Jennifer Lynn. Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
Kippur, Sara. New York Nouveau: How Postwar French Literature Became American. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025.
Kuldova, Tereza Østbø, Jardar Østbø, and Thomas Raymen. Luxury and Corruption: Challenging the Anti-Corruption Consensus. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press, 2024.
Kwon, June Hee. Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
Lane, Carrie M. More Than Pretty Boxes: How the Rise of Professional Organizing Shows Us the Way We Work Isn’t Working. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024.
Larkins, Erika Robb. The Sensation of Security: Private Guards and Social Order in Brazil. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023.
Liang, Zai. From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023.
Liu, Huwy-Min Lucia. Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023.
Luttrell-Rowland, Mikaela. Political Children: Violence, Labor, and Rights in Peru. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023.
MacQuarie, Julius-Cezar. Invisible Migrant Nightworkers in 24/7 London. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2023.
Mählck, Paula. Domestic Work in Postcolonial Tanzania: Gender, Learning and Unlearning. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
Mankekar, Purnima and Akhil Gupta. The Future of Futurity: Affective Capitalism and Potentiality in a Global City. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2025.
Martson, Andrea. Subterranean Matters: Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024.
McDonell, Emma. The Quinoa Bust: The Making and Unmaking of an Andean Miracle Crop. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2025.
Ménard, Anaïs. Integrating Strangers: Sherbro Identity and The Politics of Reciprocity along the Sierra Leonean Coast. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2023.
Middleton, Alan. The Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, Entrepreneurs and Precarious Family Firms. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2023.
Mojaddedi, Fatima. Shelter for the Night: On Afghanistan, Language, and Detours. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2026.
Morton, Gregory Duff. Return from the World: Economic Growth and Reverse Migration in Brazil. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024.
Muehlebach, Andrea. A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
Nading, Alex M. The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2025.
Newman, Katherine S. and Elisabeth S. Jacobs. Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023.
Nguyen, Phi-Van. A Displaced Nation: The 1954 Evacuation and Its Political Impact on the Vietnam Wars. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024.
Ofstehage, Andrew. Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2026.
Okuwobi, Oneya Fennell. Who Pays for Diversity? Why Programs Fail at Racial Equity and What to Do About It. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2025.
Orrico, Laura A. Making Precarity Work: Life on the Edge of Venice Beach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Osborne, Melissa. Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024.
Page, Joanna. Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2023.
Papadantonakis, Max. Canaries in the Code Mine: Precarity and the Future of Tech Work. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2025.
Parkinson, Sarah E. Beyond the Lines: Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023.
Pearson, Heath. Life Beside Bars: Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024.
Pearson, Thomas W. An Ordinary Future: Margaret Mead, the Problem of Disability, and a Child Born Different. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023.
Pérez, Amín. Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle. Cambridge: Polity, 2024.
Pilkey, Orrin H., Norma J. Longo, William J. Neal, Nelson G. Rangel-Buitrago, Keith C. Pilkey, and Hannah L. Hayes. Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
Pillay, Suren, ed. On the Subject of Citizenship: Late Colonialism in the World Today. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Pratihar, Ananya Roy, Saswat Samay Das, and Emine Gorgul, eds. Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Post-Neoliberalism. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
Pritzker, Sonya E. Living Toward Justice: A Time Capsule. New York: New Village Press, 2025.
Pugh, Allison J. The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024.
Purvis, Diane J. They Came but Could Not Conquer: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Alaska Native Communities. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2024.
Quah, Ee Ling. Fire Dragon Feminism: Asian Migrant Women’s Tales of Migration, Coloniality and Racial Capitalism. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
Reardon-Smith, Mardi. Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025.
Resnick, Elana. Refusing Sustainability: Race and Environmentalism in a Changing Europe. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025.
Richardson-Little, Ned. The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
Ruiz-Serna, Daniel. When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
Saburō, Yoshida. Diary of a Farmer at the Foot of Mt. Kanpū: Living off the Land in Northern Japan, 1935–1936. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press, 2025.
Saddler, Sarah. Performing Corporate Bodies: Multinational Theatre in Global India. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2025.
Safransky, Sara. The City After Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
Salihu, Diamant. When Nobody’s Listening: Inside Sweden’s Drug Gangs. Cambridge: Polity, 2025.
Saxer, Martin. Places in Knots: Remoteness and Connectivity in the Himalayas and Beyond. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023.
Scarborough, William J. Gendered Places: The Landscape of Local Gender Norms Across the United States. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2023.
Schields, Chelsea. Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023.
Schöneich, Svenja. Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2023.
Schuster, Caroline E. Forecasts: A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023.
Scott, Sonya, Kean Birch, Richard Wellen, and Audrey Laurin-Lamothe, eds. Business and Society: A Critical Introduction. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Seale-Feldman, Aidan. The Work of Disaster: Crisis and Care Along a Himalayan Fault Line. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Sharma, Aradhana. A Technomoral Politics: Good Governance, Transparency, and Corruption in India. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2024.
Shaw, Jennifer E. Tender Labour: Migrant Care Work, Filipina/o Young People, and Family Life Across Borders. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2025.
Shih, Elena. Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023.
Skafish, Peter. Rough Metaphysics: The Speculative Thought and Mediumship of Jane Roberts. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.
Slobodian, Quinn. Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right. Brooklyn, NY: Zone Books, 2025.
Souleles, Daniel Scott. Whoosh Goes the Market: Algorithms, Automation, and Alienation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024.
Srinivas, Tulasi. The Goddess in the Mirror: An Anthropology of Beauty. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2025.
Steedman, Robin. Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023.
Strauss, Claudia. What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024.
Strümpell, Christian and Michael Hoffmann, eds. Industrial Labour in an Unequal World: Ethnographic Perspectives on Uneven and Combined Development. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023.
Swiss National Museum, ed. Colonial: Switzerland’s Global Entanglements. Zürich, Switzerland: Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess, 2024.
Tammisto, Tuomas. Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier. Helsinki, Finland: Helsinki University Press, 2025.
Taylor, Timothy D. Working Musicians: Labor and Creativity in Film and Television Production. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
Taylor, Timothy D. Making Value: Music, Capital, and the Social. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024.
Theriault, Noah. A Forest of Dreams: Capitalism, Conservation, and Indigenous Rights in the Philippines. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press, 2025.
Turner, Eliza. Miami’s Art Boom: From Local Vision to International Presence. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2025.
Williams, Terry. Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024.
Wilson, Eli Revelle Yano. Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beer. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2024.
Woronkowicz, Joanna. Artists at Work: Rethinking Policy for Artistic Careers. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025.
Wu, Tongyu. Play to Submission: Gaming Capitalism in a Tech Firm. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2024.
Zhang, Lin. The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.
