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• Book Review: Common Circuits (July 28, 2026)
• Digital ethnography in a perpetually online world (July 9, 2026)
• Apply for Research Funding from SAW (May 26, 2026)
• Book Review: Laboring for Justice (April 22, 2026)
• Book Review: Haunted Modernities (April 21, 2026)
• 2026 SAW Book Prize: Call for Submissions (April 20, 2026)
• “Pehle dekhenge, samjhenge, phir jaayenge”: Waiting and Feminist Listening at the Labour Chowk (April 9, 2026)
• Ethnography Under Watch: Field Notes on Student Politics in Indian Universities (March 6, 2026)
• Book Review: Tackling the Everyday (March 5, 2026)
• Book Review: Inside the Invisible Cage (February 19, 2026)
• As go the libraries… (February 14, 2026)
• Book Review: Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore (February 12, 2026)
• Book Review: The Pandemic Workplace (January 29, 2026)
• Book Review: The Mechanic and the Luddite (January 14, 2026)
• Book Review: Kretek Capitalism (January 13, 2026)
• Book Review: A Thousand Tiny Cuts (December 13, 2025)
• Book Review: Experimental Times (December 8, 2025)
• Call for Exertions Submissions 2025 (December 2, 2025)
• SAW Events at the 2025 AAA Annual Meeting (November 19, 2025)
• Book Review: Financialization (November 19, 2025)
• Book Review: Cash Transfers in Context (November 18, 2025)
• Book Review: The Cactus Hunters (November 11, 2025)
• Book Review: The Industrial Ephemeral (November 11, 2025)
• Book Review: Are We Rich Yet? (November 11, 2025)
• Book Review: Genres of Listening (November 7, 2025)
• Book Review: The Latino Threat (November 5, 2025)
• Book Review: Between Dreams and Ghosts (November 5, 2025)
• Book Review: Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century (November 1, 2025)
• Book Review: The Nightcrawlers (November 1, 2025)
• Book Review: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism (November 1, 2025)
• Book Review: Landscapes of Care (November 1, 2025)
• AI Anthropology: A New Opportunity for Anthropological Work (October 29, 2025)
• Book Review: Castoffs of Capital (September 15, 2025)
• Recognizing Our 2025 Grant Recipients (September 2, 2025)
• Book Review: A Ritual Geology (August 15, 2025)
• 2025 Eric R. Wolf Prize: Call for Submissions (July 26, 2025)
• Book Review: Working the Fabric (June 28, 2025)
• Book Review: Circular Ecologies (June 19, 2025)
• Book Review: Patriarchy and Gender Stereotypes in the Contemporary World (June 19, 2025)
• Book Review: Passcode to the Third Floor (June 19, 2025)
• Book Review: Unknowing and the Everyday (June 10, 2025)
• Book Review: Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica (June 10, 2025)
• On the Responsibilities of Babysitting (May 30, 2025)
• Book Review: Mumbai on Two Wheels (April 27, 2025)
• 2025 SAW Book Prize: Call for Submissions (April 21, 2025)
• Book Review: They Eat Our Sweat (March 29, 2025)
• The US-American Dilemma of Telling Someone What To Do (March 19, 2025)
• Learning about Citizenship at Work in Despotic Jobs (March 19, 2025)
• THE DEMOCRATIC IMAGINARY; OR THE WORKPLACE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN (March 19, 2025)
• The Pandemic Workplace (comment) (March 19, 2025)
• Introduction: Book Forum on The Pandemic Workplace (March 19, 2025)
• Book Review: Life Beyond Waste (March 14, 2025)
• Book Review: Land and the Mortgage (March 9, 2025)
• The Wider Story of Self-employment (March 8, 2025)
• An Interview with Carrie Lane (March 8, 2025)
• Book Forum: More Than Pretty Boxes (March 8, 2025)
• A New Collective for the Anthropology of Work Review (March 7, 2025)
• Connection, Collaboration, and Academic Clutter: Author's Response (March 6, 2025)
• Thing-Work: Organizing as Practice and Profession (March 6, 2025)
• Organizing Stories, Organizing Experiences (March 6, 2025)
• On Tidying Up and Organizing Ourselves (March 6, 2025)
• Student Athlete: Full Time Unpaid Labor (March 5, 2025)
• Book Review: Work, Society, and the Ethical Self (March 3, 2025)
• Book Review: Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism (February 24, 2025)
• My First Two Jobs, in Heaven and in Purgatory (February 17, 2025)
• Thinking with Chantal Akerman’s Cinema: A Conversation on Reproductive Labor, Pedagogy, and Radical Refusal (February 12, 2025)
• Book Review: How We Struggle (February 2, 2025)
• Book Review: On Shifting Ground (January 29, 2025)
• Book Review: Making Better Lives (December 22, 2024)
• Book Review: Plantation Crisis (December 16, 2024)
• Rapid Rituals: Reflections of a River Guide (December 3, 2024)
• Book Review: Shopping with Allah (December 1, 2024)
• Book Review: Decolonial Ecology (October 22, 2024)
• Book Review: Sea-Time (October 13, 2024)
• Book Review: Media Ruins (October 2, 2024)
• Book Review: Unseen Flesh (September 28, 2024)
• Teaching Gender, Work, and Dissent (September 4, 2024)
• Book Review: Pink Gold (August 22, 2024)
• Book Review: African Motors (August 12, 2024)
• Occupational Syndemics and the Anthropology of Work (August 8, 2024)
• Book Review: Hailing the State (July 23, 2024)
• Book Review: Side Hustle Safety Net (July 17, 2024)
• Book Review: The Worth of Art (June 20, 2024)
• Book Review: Refugee Cities (May 31, 2024)
• Book Review: Living with Precariousness (May 28, 2024)
• Book Review: Becoming Foucault (May 23, 2024)
• Book Review: Ryokan (May 20, 2024)
• Book Review: My Girls (May 15, 2024)
• Book Review: Bankers in the Ivory Tower (May 15, 2024)
• SAW Book Prize 2024: Call for Submissions (April 20, 2024)
• Teaching the Work of the Anthropology of Work (March 25, 2024)
• Our Commitments to Access and Safety for the Annual Meeting in Tampa and Beyond (March 25, 2024)
• Apply for Funding from SAW (March 12, 2024)
• Book Review: After Work (March 6, 2024)
• Book Review: Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies (February 29, 2024)
• 2024 SEA/SAW Spring Meeting (February 27, 2024)
• Book Review: Thrift and Its Paradoxes (February 14, 2024)
• Book Review: Post-Industrial Precarity (January 16, 2024)
• (Farm)work as/of Participant Observation (January 2, 2024)
• My Time as a Care Worker and How It Made Me an Anthropologist (January 2, 2024)
• Reworking the Script: Education, Ritual, Catharsis (December 8, 2023)
• Jobs, Work, Class, and Public Education: The Work to Become an Anthropologist in Argentina (December 8, 2023)
• Anthropology in Customer Service (December 8, 2023)
• Academic Underbelly Grad School Jobs and Academic Underbelly Realities (December 8, 2023)
• Book Review: Markets of Civilization (November 23, 2023)
• Book Review: In the Shadow of Tungurahua (October 28, 2023)
• How Work Malingers (October 16, 2023)
• Ecologies of Capitalism (October 16, 2023)
• Book Review (October 16, 2023)
• Book Review (October 16, 2023)
• Book Review (October 16, 2023)
• Working on a Tourist Train (September 30, 2023)
• Pursuing Anthropology Illegally: A Labor of Love, Hurt, and Rage (September 30, 2023)
• Book Review: Resistance to the Current (September 5, 2023)
• Book Review: Making Better Coffee (August 22, 2023)
• The Work of Interspecies Ethnography (August 16, 2023)
• The Increasingly Feral Condition of Rural Life (August 16, 2023)
• For Better or Worse (August 16, 2023)
• Cultivating Attention (August 16, 2023)
• Author's Response (August 16, 2023)
• Those Were the Days, My Friend: Student Jobs When College Was More Affordable (August 16, 2023)
• The Wedding Harpist’s Lament: Or, How I Became an Ethnographer (August 16, 2023)
• Introduction (August 16, 2023)
• Book Review: Love and Liberation (August 15, 2023)
• “You Are Not a Person”: Splitting Severance (July 24, 2023)
• When Contracted Selves are Severed (July 24, 2023)
• The Work You(2) Do to Keep You(1) "Free": Chronotopes and Workspace Surveillance in Severance (July 24, 2023)
• The Happy Worker's Guide to Severance (July 24, 2023)
• The Doppelgänger Within: Severance's Retaliation Against the Self (July 24, 2023)
• Sleeping on the Job (July 24, 2023)
• Severance as an AI Parable? (July 24, 2023)
• Grief Work: Labor, Emotion, and Cutting Through Loss in Severance (July 24, 2023)
• The Totality of Agribusiness (July 24, 2023)
• On Worker-Centered Politics Amid Brutality: Author Response (July 24, 2023)
• On Ironies (July 24, 2023)
• Inefficiency and the Rhythms of Industrial Time (July 24, 2023)
• A Time for Un-efficiencies (July 24, 2023)
• Introduction (July 24, 2023)
• Authors' Response (July 24, 2023)
• Introduction (July 24, 2023)
• Cooperation (July 5, 2023)
• Book Review: The Work of Gender (June 27, 2023)
• Introduction: The Work of Anthropology (June 26, 2023)
• Book Review: Cannibal Capitalism (June 20, 2023)
• The Work I've Done (June 16, 2023)
• The Jobs We've Had: An Introduction (June 16, 2023)
• In the Name of Love: How Invaluable Work Rarely Pays but Can Make Life Worth Living (June 16, 2023)
• Impermanent Work In and Out of Academia (June 16, 2023)
• Doing the Right Thing (June 16, 2023)
• Another Job for Another Crisis (June 16, 2023)
• Revitalizing Our Legacy (June 1, 2023)
• Artist-Anthropologist Mutual Mentorship Networks (June 1, 2023)
• An Anthropology for the People (June 1, 2023)
• Transmigration (May 31, 2023)
• Frontier (May 31, 2023)
• Domesticity (May 31, 2023)
• Digital Nomad (May 31, 2023)
• Consent (May 31, 2023)
• Book Review: In the Skin of the City (May 26, 2023)
• Book Review: Beyond the Wage (May 22, 2023)
• Immunocapital: Its History and Future (April 26, 2023)
• Book Review: Ambulance Chasers (April 19, 2023)
• Capitalism Machina (April 4, 2023)
• Book Review: The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work (March 26, 2023)
• Book Review: Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan (March 4, 2023)
• Book Review: Chinese Village Life Today (February 28, 2023)
• 'Each of these things is a person': Notes on the Emotional Labor of Waste and Reuse (January 18, 2023)
• Book Review: Everyday Dirty Work (January 12, 2023)
• Book Review: A Feast of Flowers (January 6, 2023)
• Book Review: Progressive Dystopia (December 30, 2022)
• Book Review: Why Would I Be Married Here? (December 28, 2022)
• Book Review: Merchant Kings (December 16, 2022)
• Book Review: Unintended Lessons of Revolution (December 12, 2022)
• Book Review: Afterlives of Data (December 6, 2022)
• Book Review: Uncertainty by Design (December 1, 2022)
• Book Review: Waste Worlds (November 30, 2022)
• Book Review: The Many Futures of Work (November 30, 2022)
• Book Review: Building Back Better in India (November 28, 2022)
• Book Review: The Voice of the Rural (November 25, 2022)
• Book Review: The Devil's Fruit (November 25, 2022)
• Book Review: Moral Economy at Work (November 25, 2022)
• Book Review: Creative Control (November 25, 2022)
• Book Review: Recovering Histories (November 1, 2022)
• Book Review: Corporate Women in Contemporary China (October 20, 2022)
• Book Review: Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity (October 20, 2022)
• Book Review: Labor and Punishment (August 4, 2022)
• Book Review: The Migrant's Paradox (August 4, 2022)
• Book Review: Beneath the China Boom (August 4, 2022)
• Teaching Time and Labor: From the Factory Act to the Gig Economy (May 28, 2022)
• Book Review: Linguistic Ethnography of a Multilingual Call Center (April 18, 2022)
• Book Review: Worlds of Care (April 13, 2022)
• Book Review: Manufacturing Celebrity (April 11, 2022)
• Book Review: The Creative Underclass (March 25, 2022)
• Book Review: Tasting Qualities (March 20, 2022)
• A Supreme Court is a Workplace (February 10, 2022)
• Book Review: Shifting Livelihoods (January 5, 2022)
• Book Review: Border Capitalism, Disrupted (January 4, 2022)
• Book Review: Chiefs of the Plantation (December 20, 2021)
• Book Review: The Punishment Monopoly (December 17, 2021)
• Management Consultants: Liminality, Experiences, and the Work of Others (December 15, 2021)
• The Essential Activism of Migrant Women Household Workers’ Rights Advocates (December 6, 2021)
• Book Review: Sovereign Entrepreneurs (December 2, 2021)
• Book Review: Jugaad Time (November 29, 2021)
• Book Review: Beyond the Algorithm (October 22, 2021)
• Book Review: Roses from Kenya (September 20, 2021)
• The Limits of Emplacement (September 10, 2021)
• Reconsidering "Killer Stories" (September 10, 2021)
• On Livability in the Sri Lankan Tea Plantation (September 10, 2021)
• Mapping Impossible Journeys (September 10, 2021)
• Against Enclosure (September 10, 2021)
• Book Review: Feeding the Crisis (August 20, 2021)
• The Work of Care and Violence (July 5, 2021)
• Reflections on Binational Emergency Workers in the Midst of the Pandemic (July 5, 2021)
• No Accident (July 5, 2021)
• Domains of Indistinction (July 5, 2021)
• A Threshold of Workers (July 5, 2021)
• Opening Access to AAA's Publishing Future (July 1, 2021)
• Book Review: After the Gig (June 3, 2021)
• Working the Plantationocene (May 27, 2021)
• Book Review: Coerced (May 26, 2021)
• Book Review: Cultivating Knowledge (May 24, 2021)
• Book Review: Hustle and Gig (May 15, 2021)
• Book Review: The Licit Life of Capitalism (April 6, 2021)
• Book Review: Brazilian Steel Town (February 25, 2021)
• Book Review: Waste and Wealth (February 9, 2021)
• Working the Plantationocene: Open Reviews (February 7, 2021)
• Maintain and Repair: Rethinking Essential Labor through Infrastructural Work (February 3, 2021)
• Book Review: The Archive of Loss (February 2, 2021)
• Essential Space for Essential Workers: Responding to COVID-19 (December 15, 2020)
• Whose University? When Police Pass the Baton to Campuses (December 1, 2020)
• What is the “Work” in “Police Work”? (December 1, 2020)
• The Politics of Respectability: Race, Policing, and Occupational Identity in Atlanta (December 1, 2020)
• The Making and Unmaking of a Private Security Trade Union in Occupied East Jerusalem (December 1, 2020)
• The (Antifascist) Police Officer as Worker: Futurizing the Present (December 1, 2020)
• The "Gypsy" Police: The Social Division of Police Labor in Rome (December 1, 2020)
• Set Up for Failure: Law Enforcement Doing Public Health (December 1, 2020)
• Police Work versus Police Action: Justice, Discretion, and Arendt’s Theory of Politics (December 1, 2020)
• Police Discretion Under Pressure: On the Criminogenic Potential of Organizational Reform (December 1, 2020)
• On the Workaday Origin of Police Callousness (December 1, 2020)
• Mental Health and Hospital Security: Where Does Health End and Policing Begin? (December 1, 2020)
• Escaping Policing: Labor, Risk, and Abolition in Johannesburg (December 1, 2020)
• El activismo esencial de las defensoras de los derechos de las trabajadoras de casas particulares migrantes (December 1, 2020)
• Disaggregating Work: The Circularity of Violence and Differential Burdens of Policing (December 1, 2020)
• Digital Hailing: Social Media and Police Work (December 1, 2020)
• Defund the Private Police: Rethinking Police as Affective Labor (December 1, 2020)
• Antiracism as Police Work: A Case from the Black Mediterranean (December 1, 2020)
• Abolish, Defund, and the Prospects of Citizen Oversight after George Floyd (December 1, 2020)
• Sex Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic (November 2, 2020)
• Human Sacrifices, not Heroes: U.S. Essential Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic (November 2, 2020)
• Essentially Disposable (November 2, 2020)
• Chronic, Not Crisis: Why We Need More than Sympathy to Talk About Worker Health (October 16, 2020)
• Fuzzy Frontiers: Telework and Work–Life Balance in COVID-19 Spain (October 6, 2020)
• While Others Sleep: The Essential Labor of Migrant Nightshift Workers (September 16, 2020)
• Public Carriers: Boredom among the Taxi Drivers in Playa del Carmen, Mexico (September 9, 2020)
• Essential for Whom? Paid Domestic Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic (August 13, 2020)
• SAW Statement on White Supremacy and Anti-Blackness in Anthropology (June 25, 2020)
• Balancing Support: Essential Work for Homeless People during COVID-19 (June 17, 2020)
• Essential or Expendable? The Construction Trades on the Frontlines of Late Capitalism (June 9, 2020)
• Business Always as Usual: Hypernormalization and Pandemic Labor (June 3, 2020)
• Crafting the Entrepreneurial Self: Refugees, Displaced Livelihoods, and the Politics of Labor in Turkey (May 28, 2020)
• There is Nothing Revelatory About It: Racialized Labor in the Age of COVID-19 (May 23, 2020)
• Essential Agrarian Histories for Essential Agrarian Futures (May 12, 2020)
• Essentializing Labor Before, During, and After COVID-19 (May 6, 2020)
• Care, Publicity, and Worker Politics in Late Industrial Bosnia and Herzegovina (November 17, 2019)
• Care, Publicity, and Worker Politics in Late Industrial Bosnia and Herzegovina: Open Reviews (September 23, 2019)