Check out Abdul-Aziz Dembélé's book review of Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures, by Luis Felipe R. Murillo (2025). anthrowork.org/book-reviews...

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Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures, by Luis Felipe R. Murillo (2025). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

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Due August 1, call for Participants for the next round of our SAW-AWR Community of Writing Fellows. This eight-month program from Sept 2026 to Apr 2027 seeks to support the writing and publishing of early-career and equity-deserving scholars focused on the anthropology of work.

Please enjoy Silvia Rodrigues Follador's reflections on conducting digital ethnography with a feminist capacity-building NGO addressing disparities in Brazil’s tech sector by providing free online coding bootcamps for vulnerabilized women, particularly Black, trans, travestis facing unemployment.

Check out a new book review of Laboring for Justice: The Fight Against Wage Theft in an American City, by Rebecca Berke Galemba (2023) anthrowork.org/book-reviews...

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Laboring for Justice: The Fight Against Wage Theft in an American City, by Rebecca Berke Galemba (2023). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

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Check out a new series where scholars respond to a call to reflect on innovative methods that are being devised by anthropologists of work to navigate the changing nature of work itself. With gig economies, precarious work, and jobs that are continually under threat, how do we study work itself?

“Pehle dekhenge, samjhenge, phir jaayenge”: Waiting and Feminist Listening at the Labour Chowk - Society for the Anthropology of Work

In this new series, scholars respond to SAW editors' call to reflect on innovative methods that are being devised by anthropologists of work to navigate the

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The SAW Book Prize is awarded each year by the Society for the Anthropology of Work. In 2026, the prize will be awarded to a monograph with a publication date of 2024 or later: no edited volumes, please. Deadline for receiving books is June 1, 2026.

Check out Xavier Smalls' review of Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football, by Tracie Canada anthrowork.org/book-reviews...

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Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football, by Tracie Canada (2025). Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

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Check out Avdhesh Kumar's review of The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office, by Ilana Gershon anthrowork.org/book-reviews...

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The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office, by Ilana Gershon (2024). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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2. Christopher Lingelbach's review of Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia, by Marina Welker anthrowork.org/book-reviews...

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Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia, by Marina Welker (2024). Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

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Check two recent book reviews by SAW (Post 1/2) 1. Proshant Chakraborty's review of The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism, by Jathan Sadowski anthrowork.org/book-reviews...

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The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism, by Jathan Sadowski (2025). Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

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Check out this book review in Exertions (SAW’s short-form web publication): Radhika Moral's review of A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands, by Sahana Ghosh. If you would like to review a book, please reach out to our editors.

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A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands, by Sahana Ghosh (2023)

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If you would like to review a book for Exertions, SAW’s web-based publication, here is the list of titles available for review. Contact editors Sam Weeks (samuel.weeks@jefferson.edu) and Thea Mercer (theaproxy@gmail.com).

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If you would like to review any of these or other work-related books, please contact Dr. Samuel Weeks at samuel.weeks@jefferson.edu. Descriptions can be found

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Congratulations to Winner of 2025 SAW Book Prize Hector Beltran's Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands, Princeton University Press, 2023. Honorable Mention Hemangini Gupta’s Experimental Times: Start-up Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India, U of California Press, 2024.

We are excited to announce the winner of the Eric Wolf Prize for the Best Graduate Paper (2025). The winner is: Yanping Ni "China’s Dust Archives: Black Lung, Testimonial Surplus, and the Ghosts of Reform."

Congratulations to the five early-career scholars of work who were awarded small grants by SAW for their research. anthrowork.org/announcement...

Graduate students, the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) invites you to submit your scholarly work to the Eric Wolfe Prize. Submissions are due on September 1, 2025. Please email your submissions to (lirani+wolf@ucsd.edu). See the cfp below! saw.americananthro.org/pub/2025-wol...

2025 Eric R. Wolf Prize: Call for Submissions

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.

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Call for Submissions! We are delighted to invite submissions for the 2025 SAW Book Prize which will be awarded to a monograph with a publication date of 2023 or later. Deadline is June 5, 2025. We look forward to your submissions! saw.americananthro.org/pub/2025-saw...

2025 SAW Book Prize: Call for Submissions

In 2025, the SAW Book Prize will be awarded to a monograph with a publication date of 2023 or later.

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We are excited to announce two grant opportunities for current grad students and post-PhD scholars who do not hold a tenure-track faculty position. The maximum amount across both grant programs is $6000. Apply by May 15, 2025. Link for more info.

The Society for the Anthropology of Work is delighted to welcome Jasmine Folz, Letizia Bonnano, and Rachel Smith as the incoming editors of the Anthropology of Work Review, the Society’s peer-reviewed journal! Read more about our new editors here: saw.americananthro.org/pub/a-new-co...

A New Collective for the Anthropology of Work Review

Jasmine Folz, Letizia Bonnano, and Rachel Smith will serve as the journal's editors through 2028.

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SAW is delighted to announce the release of our December 2024 AWR special issue on Organizing Domestic Work: The Limits of Regulations in the Wake of the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, co-edited by Guest editors Alana Glaser and Cati Coe. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1548...

Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library

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New post up on the SAW Website Teaching Tools Section! saw.americananthro.org/pub/lhwerzc7...

Thinking with Chantal Akerman’s Cinema: a conversation on reproductive labour, pedagogy and radical refusal

Alice Devoy, Elena Gonzalez-Davila-Boy, Rojin Shirwan, Mai Taha and Marie Vandermeulen (LSE) discuss watching Chantal Akerman's 'Jeanne Dielman' in the classroom. They collectively reflect on Akerman...

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Starting now til 5:45 Eastern at #aaa2023 Racialization and the Gig Economy with Shreya Subramani, Christien Tompkins, Maga Miranda, and Roxana Dobson with @gleemie.bsky.social and Sareeta Amrute as discussants: conferencedirect.zoom.us/j/8125565772...

“Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs” www.sapiens.org/culture/davi... “Anthropologist David Graeber’s celebrated theory of ‘bullshit jobs’ continues to provide a critical window into why modern work is often so useless, soul-sucking, and absurd.” #AnthroSky #Anthropology #DavidGraeber

Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

Anthropologist David Graeber’s theory of BS jobs provides a critical window into why modern work is so often so soul-sucking.

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Hi #anthrosky. Is anyone going to Tampa this week for #AAA2024? If you are, I'd love to see you at my panel: Making as Ethnographic Praxis. We'll be sharing papers on craft-making as ethnographic practice and are delighted to have Cristina Grasseni as our discussant.

Watch SAW online at #AAA2024: “The Promise and Perils of Evolving North American Temporary Labor Programs,” organized by Tristan Call and James Daria and scheduled for Saturday, November 23 from 12:45–2:15pm Eastern Time, will be livestreamed on the SAW Facebook page. www.facebook.com/anthrowork/

Watch SAW sessions at #aaa2024 online: “Making as Ethnographic Praxis,” organized by Juliet Glazer and Jimil Ataman and scheduled for Wednesday, November 20 from 4:15–5:45pm Eastern Time, will be livestreamed on the SAW Facebook page. Livestream: www.facebook.com/anthrowork/

Wednesday 11:45am-12:45pm Eastern, on zoom! Join our Society for the Anthropology of Work Business Meeting to hear about our resources, initiatives, and meet other anthropologists committed to broadening the study of work and labor. #aaa2024 RSVP or join on zoom: ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Hello, world! We are building the Society for the Anthropology of Work on this open, social network. Can we replace parts of our infrastructure, layer by layer, and end up with a different one aligned with our values? Let's see. saw.americananthro.org