Worker or Labour
Note for later… on the difference between worker and labour. Is it not obvious there are questions to ask here about demarcation – is a worker everyone under…
Tag: work
An Anthropologist in Silicon Valley
Reflections on a career tackling some of the critical workplace challenges of our time. I could not have imagined when I entered the PhD program in anthropology at…
Navigating Silicon Valley’s Contradictions
Silicon Valley’s workers must maneuver their way through this place of diversity and discrimination, capitalist aims, and countercultural aspirations. You can spot the extremes on the street in…
Innovations… Conference 4-5 October 2019, TDTU, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities 4th and 5th of October 2019. Ho Chi Minh City, Socialist republic of Vietnam Welcome to the website for the conference Innovations in…
Freedom, Probation, and The American Dream: Some Thoughts from a New Mexican Factory Floor
by Jonny Craig In his 2016 release, Interstate: Hitchhiking through the State of a Nation, travel-writer Julian Sarayer chronicles his unorthodox and remarkable journey from New York to…
A Rise in Vulnerability? Academic Studies, Paid Work and Mental Health
**This is the second of three posts on student experience, debt and austerity in higher education; see the other posts published on October 8th and 22nd.** by Anne-Meike Fechter…
How Does the Necessity of Paid Work Impact Our Students?: Learning from the Global Studies Student Employment Survey
by Paul Robert Gilbert **This is the first of three posts on student experience in higher education; the next two posts will published on October 15th and 22nd.** There is…
No Paninis for Poverty Pay
by Rebecca Prentice Throughout the UK yesterday restaurant and food delivery workers walked off their jobs to protest low wages, zero hours contracts, and unpredictable work schedules—including those…
Protests in Vietnam (guest post)
Guest Post by Sally Mju About the current protest in Vietnam. I support and I do not support! This article is analyzed from the perspective of Karl Marx…
Destruction of weavers
Their bones will, Marx says, end up bleached on the plains of Bihar. Here Ranajit Guha in 1956 examines how colonial policy and corporation demands destroy livelihoods and…
Book Review: Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy by Richard E. Ocejo
In Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy, Richard E. Ocejo explores four traditionally working-class jobs – barbering, bartending, distilling and butchery – that have been…
Precarity in Canadian Academia… A Working Bibliography
Unfortunately, precarity in academia has become a well-worn cliché… not least of all for those of us living in this state of ontological insecurity. In Canada, most university…
Precarity in Canadian Academia… A Working Bibliography
Unfortunately, precarity in academia has become a well-worn cliché… not least of all for those of us living in this state of ontological insecurity. In Canada, most university…
The Picket Line in the Digital Age
Joseph Cook -MPhil/PhD Anthropology @joseph_m_cook The following is the transcript from a talk given on Monday 26th February as part of a range of student-led teach-ins and…
How to frame your career transition
Today we are revisiting some still sound advice on How to Explain Your Career Transition that The Harvard Business Review first published back in 2013. This advice is especially…
How to frame your career transition
Today we are revisiting some still sound advice on How to Explain Your Career Transition that The Harvard Business Review first published back in 2013. This advice is especially…
Union revitalisation and women workers at the intersection of gender and class
by Hannah Loosley **A version of this post was published at ecnmy.org.** Women working in care, catering, cleaning, cashier and clerical jobs (the 5 Cs) have long been…
#Precarity everywhere?
“On politics and precarities in academia”- this was the title of the EASA seminar held at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern from November 16-17, 2017.…
After a job interview…
Following up on our post about crafting cover letters from earlier this week, we thought we’d share another career-related resource today: “The Checklist You Need to Run Through…
After a job interview…
Following up on our post about crafting cover letters from earlier this week, we thought we’d share another career-related resource today: “The Checklist You Need to Run Through…
Applying for a job with no experience…
When you have been in university for such a long time, you may feel like you don’t have any real experience for the jobs you are interested in…
Applying for a job with no experience…
When you have been in university for such a long time, you may feel like you don’t have any real experience for the jobs you are interested in…
Five years after deadly factory fire, Bangladesh’s garment workers are still vulnerable
by Geert De Neve and Rebecca Prentice (Previously posted on The Conversation UK.) Five years ago last month, in November 2012, a fire in the Tazreen Fashions factory…
Thesis Review and Interview: Tacos, Gumbo, and Work
Photograph: Fernando Lopez Please note: As Associate Editor, I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So if you have written a recent thesis or…