The Routledge Handbook of the Anthropology of Labor (Paperback, 1)

PART I

1 To have a life: labor reproduction, value, and negative value

2 The many workers of capitalism

Aviva Chomsky

3 Labour, property and persons: refl ections from Papua New Guinea

4 Labor and merchant capitalism in Myanmar and Thailand

5 Between the labor theory of value and the value theory of labor: a

program note

6 Social reproduction and the heterogeneity of the population as labour

Gavin Smith

7 Labor in the time of COVID- 19 (with apologies toGabriel Garcia Marquez)

8 Labour organisation: ‘traditional’ trade unions and beyond

9 Class analysis across the “Capitalist/ Communist” divide: practicing the

anthropology of labor in Kerala and Cuba

10 New forms of labor and resistance in the era of fi nancialization

11 International unions as a sphere of working- class (re)organization:

anthropological insights into Latin American steel workers

12 Working- class, political organization, and popular economy in Argentina

13 Factory takeovers for production under self- management: three

examples from Europe

14 Laboring for whiteness: the rise of Trumpism and what that tells us

about racial and gendered capitalism in the United States

15 Food, labor, and political struggle

16 Working the supply chain: towards an anthropology of

maritime logistics

Elisabeth Schober

17 Space? time compression: the workplace regime of transnational

capitalist agriculture in northern Mexico

18 Tea in troubled times: labour in Indian postcolonial plantations

19 Two workplaces and a revolution: labor in brick kilns and food

factories in western lowland Nepal

20 Freedom at work inside and outside the gig economy

21 In the Romanian bubble of outsourced creativity

22 Border walls and passages: eff ects on labor exploitation

23 The unmaking of Puerto Rican migrant farmworkers in the 1970s

24 Contract migrant farmworkers in North America: “free” to

be “unfree”

25 Migration, “aff ective” labour and capitalist reproduction

26 Going global: Philippine migrant encounters with mobile capital

27 Social justice writing and photography: the reality check

and beyond

David Bacon and John W. McKerley

28 A strike to remember: ethnographic refl ections on the conditions of

possibility for labor resistance in the US heartland

29 ‘We are supposed to be the middle class’: intra- personal responsibilities,

hierarchical development projects and union mobilisation on Zambia’s

Copperbelt

30 Technologies of transformation

31 Beyond birthing: the labor(s) of doulas and Black birth workers

32 Class and labor organization in building ships and dreams

33 Unruly workers and laborless landscapes: the role of marginal places

and redundant people in energy transitions