Announcements

A regularly updated list of books for review in Exertions.

The meeting will take place on Zoom at 11:45am Eastern on Wednesday, November 20.

SAW will offer informal hybrid access to the in-person sessions the section is sponsoring at the AAA annual meeting.

Call for Papers: Racialization and Gig Economies Christien Tompkins and Shreya Subramani invite submissions to a special issue of the Anthropology of Work Review Proposed Publication Date: May/June 2025 Due Date for Manuscripts: Friday, November 15, 2024

Call for editors - The Anthropology of Work Review

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.

In 2024, the SAW Book Prize will be awarded to an edited volume or other book that is not a conventional monograph with a publication date of 2021 or later.

SAW welcomes student-organized virtual sessions and would love to help you prepare your proposal. This online workshop will be held on Monday, April 8 at 4:30pm PST/GMT-8 (Vancouver) | 7:30pm EST/GMT-5 (New York) | April 9, 8:30am GMT+8 (Hong Kong).

Following consultation with our members, the SAW Executive Board has released the following statement.

We invite proposals from graduate students and non-tenure-track scholars for two grants intended to support individual or engaged research.

The meeting will take place in the Boston area, on the campus of Tufts University, on April 18–20, 2024.

The Anthropology of Work Review (AWR) is proud to present a curated virtual issue that features a selection of the work we have published on labor unions and organizing over the years.

The Society for the Anthropology of Work recognizes the recipients of the Conrad M. Arensberg Award, the SAW Book Award, and the Eric R. Wolf Prize.

This event is organized by AAA's Society for Anthropology of Work in partnership Toronto's Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC). MWAC advocates for the regularization and just treatment of migrants of all sorts — from farmworkers to international students — and whose member

The Society for the Anthropology of Work joins workers and anthropologists around the world calling for an end to genocide, apartheid, settler violence, and displacement against Palestinians.

Submissions are due on September 15 the Eric R. Wolf Prize. This prize honors excellence in graduate student research on the topic of the anthropology of work.

This special issue for the Anthropology of Work Review (AWR) intends to shed light on how people navigate disabling, chronic, debilitating and/or enabling experiences in and through work, and how these experiences are shaped by the social localities from which they emerge.

This special issue of the Anthropology of Work Review calls for papers that take up the historically determinate conditions of work within gig economies and the processes of racialization constitutive of and produced through these conditions.

Two postdoctoral positions in the ERC-funded project “FOODCIRCUITS: Hidden Connections Between Migrants and Societies”, based at Universitat de Barcelona and led by Professor Seth M. Holmes (PhD, MD). Deadline is May 23, 2023.

Check out the SAW-sponsored events at the 2022 annual American Anthropological Association conference in Seattle

SAW names Vanessa Díaz as the winner of its annual book prize, and recognizes books by Megan Styles and Daniel Tubb with honorable mentions.

March 1, 2022 - The Press Release of the Nightworker Charter

SAW names the volume edited by Sarah Besky and Alex Blanchette as the winner of its annual book prize, and recognizes a collection edited by Deepa Das Acevedo with an honorable mention.

Sareeta Amrute and Mythri Jegathesan invite submissions to a special issue of the Anthropology of Work Review.

This statement, coauthored by SAW President Sarah Besky, calls on the American Anthropological Association to take its publishing program open access in a sustainable way.

With the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing, SAW awards this year's prize to Mythri Jegathesan and an honorable mention to Alondra Nelson.

Gretchen Purser's 2019 article received the award from the Labor and Labor Movements section of the American Sociological Association (ASA).

We commit ourselves to centering the contributions of scholars of color and to advancing an antiracist, decolonial anthropology of work.