Migration, Inequality, and the American Dream
Domestic Economies: Women, Work, and the American Dream in Los Angeles. Susanna Rosenbaum (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017). Reviewed by…
Posts Tagged 'labor'
Digital Slavery?
by Rachelle Jereza, Binghamton University (SUNY) Goodbye iSlave: A Manifesto for Digital Abolition, Jack Linchuan Qiu (Champaign, IL: University of…
Border Capitalism, Disrupted
Andrew Alan Johnson, Princeton University Review of Border Capitalism, Disrupted: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone, by…
Book Review: Navigating Austerity: Currents of Debt Along a South Asian River
In Navigating Austerity, Laura Bear applies an ethnographic approach to understand how social relations and ethics are impacted by the…
Review Essay: Law and Migrant Labor in the 20th Century: Ghost Workers and Global Capitalism
Large-scale movements of workers, production lines, commodities, and centers of power have been integral to capitalist development since its earliest…
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
Seth M. Holmes, a physician-anthropologist, ethnographically captures the social and physical suffering of Triqui migrant farmworkers in the United States…
Born Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor
Born Out of Place is a captivating and timely ethnography of the everyday struggles of Indonesian and Filipina female domestic…
