Exertions, the short-form web publication of the Society for the Anthropology of Work, has the following titles available for review.
If you would like to review any of these or other work-related books and/or films, please contact Dr. Samuel Weeks, Book Reviews Editor, at [email protected]. Descriptions can be found at the publishers’ websites.
Agbiboa, Daniel E. They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Alexander, Catherine and Daniel Sosna. Thrift and Its Paradoxes: From Domestic to Political Economy. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2022.
Alvarez, Wilfredo. Everyday Dirty Work: Invisibility, Communication, and Immigrant Labor. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2022.
Bartlett, Nicholas. Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020.
Carney, Megan A. Island of Hope: Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021.
Carruth, Lauren. Love and Liberation: Humanitarian Work in Ethiopia’s Somali Region. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021.
Ciucci, Alessandra. The Voice of the Rural: Music, Poetry, and Masculinity Among Migrant Moroccan Men in Umbria. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Clifford, Ellen. The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare, and the Making of a Human Catastrophe. London: Zed Books, 2021.
Creticos, Peter A., Larry Bennett, Laura Owen, Costas Spirou, and Maxine Morphis-Riesbeck, eds. The Many Futures of Work: Rethinking Expectations and Breaking Molds. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2021.
Doherty, Jacob. Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022.
Doussard, Marc and Greg Schrock. Justice at Work: The Rise of Economic and Racial Justice Coalitions in Cities. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
Durrenberger, E. Paul. The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa: Anthropology, Literature, and History. Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2021.
Ebeling, Mary F. E. Afterlives of Data: Life and Debt Under Capitalist Surveillance. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022.
Evans, Harriet. Beijing from Below: Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital’s Center. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.
Falkoff, Rebecca R. Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021.
Gamburd, Michele Ruth. Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020.
Grace, Joshua. African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022.
Hann, Chris. Work, Society, and the Ethical Self: Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2021.
Hann, Chris and Jonathan Parry, eds. Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism: Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2022.
Hauser, Mark W. Mapping Water in Dominica: Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2021.
Hendricks, Thomas. Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022.
Hutchison, Elizabeth Quay. Workers Like All the Rest of Them: Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022.
Kalter, Christoph. Postcolonial People: The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Kelly, Alexandra Celia. Consuming Ivory: Mercantile Legacies of East Africa and New England. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2021.
Krupa, Christopher. A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
Kukreja, Reena. Why Would I Be Married Here? Marriage, Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022.
Lenhard, Johannes. Making Better Lives: Hope, Freedom and Home-Making Among People Sleeping Rough in Paris. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2022.
Lloréns, Hilda. Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2021.
Marchand, Trevor H. J. The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work: Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2021.
Mason, Arthur, ed. Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2022.
Mato-Bouzas, Antía, and Lorenzo Casini, eds. Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space: Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2022.
Monteith, William, Dora-Olivia Vicol, and Philippa Williams, eds. Beyond the Wage: Ordinary Work in Diverse Economies. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press, 2021.
Navarro, Tami. Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2021.
Neely, Megan Tobias. Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022.
Padilla, Tanalís. Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022.
Pease, Bob. Undoing Privilege: Unearned Advantage and Systemic Injustice in an Unequal World. London: Zed Books, 2021.
Peters, Rebecca Warne. Implementing Inequality: The Invisible Labor of International Development. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020.
Potts, Deborah. Broken Cities: Inside the Global Housing Crisis. London: Zed Books, 2020.
Purvis, Diane J. Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves: Labor, Culture, and Politics in Southeast Alaska Canneries. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.
Radhakrishnan, Smitha. Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022.
Rodima-Taylor, Daivi, and Parker Shipton, eds. Land and the Mortgage: History, Culture, Belonging. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2022.
Romero, Mercy. Toward Camden. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021.
Sachedina, Amal. Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021.
Samimian-Darash, Limor. Uncertainty by Design: Preparing for the Future with Scenario Technology. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022.
Saxton, Dvera I. The Devil’s Fruit: Farming, Health, and Environmental Justice. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021.
Schrauwers, Albert. Merchant Kings: Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815-1870. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2021.
Shackel, Paul A. An Archaeology of Unchecked Capitalism: From the American Rust Belt to the Developing World. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2020.
Shea, Jeanne, Katrina Moore, and Hong Zhang. Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2022.
Smith, James H. The Eyes of the World: Mining the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Swamy, Raja. Building Back Better in India: Development, NGOs, and Artisanal Fishers after the 2004 Tsunami. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2021.
Tomás, António. In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022.
Walters, William Charles Heller, and Lorenzo Pezzani, eds. Viapolitics: Borders, Migration, and the Power of Locomotion. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022.
Wardlow, Holly. Fencing in AIDS: Gender, Vulnerability, and Care in Papua New Guinea. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020.
Yalçin-Heckmann, Lale, ed. Moral Economy at Work: Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2022.
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