Samuel Weeks

Book review of Xinyan Peng's Corporate Women in Contemporary China: 'We've Always Worked' (2022)

Book review of Ramyar D. Rossoukh and Steven C. Caton's Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity (2021)

Book review of Nicholas Bartlett's Recovering Histories: Life and Labor After Heroin in Reform-era China (2020)

Book review of Dvera I. Saxton's The Devil’s Fruit: Farmworkers, Health, and Environmental Justice (2021)

Book review of Alessandra Ciucci's The Voice of the Rural: Music, Poetry and Masculinity among Migrant Moroccan Men in Umbria (2022)

Book review of Raja Swamy's Building Back Better in India: Development, NGOs, and Artisanal Fishers after the 2004 Tsunami (2021)

Book review of Lale Yalçın-Heckmann's edited volume Moral Economy at Work: Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia (2022)

Book review of Limor Samimian-Darash's Uncertainty by Design: Preparing for the Future with Scenario Technology (2022)

Book review of Creticos et al.'s The Many Futures of Work: Rethinking Expectations and Broadening Molds (2021)

Book review of Jacob Doherty's Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability (2022)

Book review of Michael L. Siciliano's Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries (2021)

Book review of Mary F. E. Ebeling's Afterlives of Data: Life and Debt under Capitalist Surveillance (2022)

Book review of Tanalís Padilla's Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico (2021)

Book review of Albert Schrauwers' Merchant Kings: Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815–1870 (2021)

Book review of Reena Kukreja's Why Would I Be Married Here?: Marriage Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India (2022)

Book review of Savannah Shange's Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco (2019)

Book review of Christopher Krupa's A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador (2022)

Book review of Wilfredo Alvarez's Everyday Dirty Work: Invisibility, Communication, and Immigrant Labor (2022)

Book review of Gonçalo Santos's Chinese Village Life Today: Building Families in an Age of Transition (2021)

Book review of Beatrice Zani's Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan: Mobilities, Digital Economies and Emotions (2021)

Book review of Trevor H. J. Marchand's The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work: Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England (2021)

Book review of Abraham Adams's Ambulance Chasers (2022)

Book review of Monteith et al.'s Beyond the Wage: Ordinary Work in Diverse Economies (2021)

Book review of António Tomás's In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformations in Luanda (2022)

A regularly updated list of books for review in Exertions.

Book review of Nancy Fraser's Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It (2022)

Book review of Gitte Marianne Hansen and Fabio Gygi's edited volume The Work of Gender: Service, Performance, and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan (2022)

Book review of Lauren Carruth’s Love and Liberation: Humanitarian Work in Ethiopia’s Somali Region (2021)

Book review of Edward F. Fischer's Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value (2022)

Book review of Johan Soderberg and Maxigas's Resistance to the Current: The Dialectics of Hacking (2022)

Book review of A. J. Faas's In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador (2022)

Book review of Muriam Haleh Davis's Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria (2022)

Book review of Gillian Evans' edited volume Post-Industrial Precarity: New Ethnographies of Urban Lives in Uncertain Times (2020)

Book review of Seth M. Holmes's Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (2023)

Book review of Jasmin Sandelson's My Girls: The Power of Friendship in a Poor Neighborhood (2023)

Book review of Michael C. Behrent’s Becoming Foucault: The Poitiers Years (2023)

Book review of Lisa Mitchell's Hailing the State: Indian Democracy Between Elections (2023)

Book review of Nessette Falu's Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil (2023)