Hu Anyan’s I Deliver Parcels in Beijing begins with a scene typical in contemporary accounts of Chinese work: there is a vast industrial space, a grueling hours arrangement (twelve-hour night shifts w...

A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of life

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During Tania’s summer 2025 internship at the Open Door Clinic in Addison County, Vermont, she translated for a migrant farmworker, as doctors explained

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50 years after the Lucas Plan, workers, activists, students & academics unite in Manchester, 21 Nov 2026, for socially useful production now

An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.

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

The man from the Ministry of Local Government arrives on a Monday, chisi, the day villagers do not go to the fields.

Matan Kaminer. 2024. Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Matan Kaminer’s new book is

Join us for the Political Economy Centre's hybrid book launch for Dr Barbora Černušáková's Surplus Lives Under Racial Capitalism.

With the HIV/AIDS epidemic gripping the world in the 1990s and the resurgence of the antitrafficking discourse in the 2000s, the sex work/abolitionist debate took center stage. Proponents of sex work ...

Where and why do anthropologists studying the post-pandemic world locate workers and how do they frame them as ideological and (a)political subje...

Over the past three decades, scholars have paid greater attention to the intensification and complex interconnectivity of local and global processes. Anthropological studies of cross-border marriages,...

Steelworks 80, a planned steel expansion that brought workers to northern Sweden, was derailed by a global downturn. Its story shows how communities built around the promise of investment are left wit...

Nate Holdren reviews Lorenzo Feltrin's "Workers and the World: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within", praising it for countering climate despair.

A global, radically participatory research initiative, where data workers themselves become community researchers, identifying urgent issues, formulating their own questions, and choosing the formats ...

App-controlled labor is less a technological novelty than yet another chapter in a much longer history of employer legal circumvention.

September 15, 2026 Figure 3: The Circulation of Labour Capacity The course will run on Tuesdays from 4:15-6:15pm [ET] from September 8 – December 1, 2026. Register for the virtual course here. Read…

President Trump's promises to carry out mass deportations have ramped up fear among immigrants who could be at risk. Experts have warned that could inhibit them from speaking up about health threats on the job, hampering efforts to stop workplace hazards and illnesses.

College students and workers alike are finding a new set of skills is needed for a rapidly changing workplace.

Free online lecture by award-winning author and historian Professor Randy M. Browne (Xaiver University)

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Cleaning work is often called low-skilled, perhaps because it’s usually done by low-waged women. In an interview, a cleaner in the European Parliament and a hospital cleaner explain why their work should be more valued and better paid.