Jobs We Had: Reflections on the Work of Anthropology · Society for the Anthropology of Work

Introduction and Call for Submissions

The Jobs We've Had: An Introduction

by Carrie Lane

Published: Jun 16, 2023

June 2023

In the Name of Love: How Invaluable Work Rarely Pays but Can Make Life Worth Living

by Melissa Zavala

Published: Jun 16, 2023

Another Job for Another Crisis

by Ben Slightom

Published: Jun 16, 2023

Doing The Right Thing

by Jong-Bum Kwon

Published: Jun 16, 2023

Impermanent Work In and Out of Academia

by Maureen Meyers

Published: Jun 16, 2023

The Work I've Done

by James Loucky

Published: Jun 16, 2023

August 2023

Those Were the Days, My Friend: Student Jobs When College Was More Affordable

by Jim Weil

Published: Aug 16, 2023

The Wedding Harpist’s Lament: Or, how I became an ethnographer

by Janet Vertesi

Published: Aug 16, 2023

September 2023

Pursuing Anthropology Illegally: A Labor of Love, Hurt, and Rage

by Ana Ivasiuc

Published: Sep 30, 2023

Working on a Tourist Train

by Pamela Runestad

Published: Sep 30, 2023

November 2023

Anthropology in Customer Service

by Jessica Sujata Chandras

Published: Dec 08, 2023

Reworking the script: education, ritual, catharsis

by Keith Egan

Published: Dec 08, 2023

December 2023

Academic Underbelly Grad School Jobs and Academic Underbelly Realities

by Karen Stocker

Published: Dec 08, 2023

Jobs, Work, Class, and Public Education: The Work to Become an Anthropologist in Argentina

by Mariano Perelman

Published: Dec 08, 2023

January 2024

My Time as a Care Worker and How It Made Me an Anthropologist

by hagwil hayetsk / Charles Menzies

Published: Jan 02, 2024

(Farm)work as/of Participant Observation

by Susannah Chapman

Published: Jan 02, 2024

December 2024

Rapid Rituals: Reflections of a River Guide

by Sebastian Jackson

Published: Dec 03, 2024