The centre’s blind adherence to austerity has devastated European societies.

Graduate students, the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) invites you to submit your scholarly work to be considered for the Eric R. Wolf Prize.

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...

This article examines how women drivers in Malaga's private passenger transport sector sustain paid work while holding primary responsibility for domestic labor and care. Drawing on ethnographic fiel....

The worldwide environmental destruction brought about by the explosive advance of global capitalism has plunged the planet into crisis. The amount of fossil fuels consumed by the world population a…

A new study maps the pro-Israel actors working to cut Palestinian relief agency UNRWA's funding

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This article examines positive dimensions of emotional labor through ethnographic fieldwork on paid online companionship in China's pei liao industry. We argue that dominant concepts in emotional lab...

This article examines the experiences of immigrant Latina domestic workers on care work platforms, arguing that these technologies extend historical norms of domesticity into the digital era through ...

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Inspired by a misreading of Antonio Gramsci, far-right activists have spent decades attempting to shape intellectual and cultural spaces. But their version of Gramsci’s ideas leaves out a crucial elem...

Most of our lives are spent working, as we frequently engage in purposeful activity to build and maintain our physical and social worlds. The anthropology of work and labour provides a comparative per...

This article examines positive dimensions of emotional labor through ethnographic fieldwork on paid online companionship in China's pei liao industry. We argue that dominant concepts in emotional lab...

“Between July 2015 and January 2017, I carried out fieldwork in Athens, Greece. I moved there to explore how practices and practicalities of care were reconfigured under economic austerity, which, at ...

Reading and understanding comics is much more complex than you might initially think.

This article is part of the special issue “Racialization and the gig economy”, Anthropology of Work Review 47(1), June 2026, edited by Shreya Subramani and Christien Tompkins. Amidst the economic pre...

This article is part of the special issue ‘Racialization and The Gig Economy’ (AWR July 2026; 47(1)) edited by Shreya Subramani and Christien Tompkins. This article examines how Ethiopian women dista...

We were sorry to learn of the death of anthropologist and poet Renato Rosaldo this week. He was 85 years old. Rosaldo was Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus at New York University. He also taught …

This article is part of the special issue ‘Racialization and The Gig Economy’ (AWR July 2026; 47(1)) edited by Shreya Subramani and Christien Tompkins. This article examines how Ethiopian women dista...

This article is part of the special issue, Racialization and The Gig Economy, Anthropology of Work Review 47 (1), June 2026, edited by Shreya Subramani and Christien Tompkins. This article explores t...

The global reverberations of Israel’s destruction of Gaza, understood as world event—an epochal turning point which serves to reveal the changing nature of the times. Philosophical reflections on the ...

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The Cultural Horizons Prize, awarded yearly by a jury of advanced doctoral students, honors an article appearing in Cultural Anthropology during ...

Israele (Commenti) L’ultimo esempio della violenza dello Stato coloniale di Israele - l’atto di pirateria in acque internazionali per sequestrare le imbarcazioni della Global Sumud Flotilla che cercav...

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

Being a bus operator has long meant access to middle class wages, quality benefits, and union membership, forms of security increasingly rare amid growing precarity. But transit is in trouble. In the...

We were told we couldn’t take a joke, and that social media isn’t real life. Now the misogyny of early chatrooms and Gamergate has made its way to the White House, says journalist and feminist activis...

One professor is looking at a possible suspension for two years without pay.

This is the Introduction to the first instalment of the “Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart” series, a project inspired by the work of Ruth Behar’s The

Europe’s steel firms are increasingly unprofitable, and rising energy prices are making things even worse. Public ownership is vital to ensure conversion to green production while maintaining jobs.

Many societies divide labor by gender and age. A biological anthropologist considers when and why this behavior arose.

Anténor Firmin, penseur haïtien oublié, a défié Gobineau en 1885. De Paris à Port-au-Prince, il fit de l’anthropologie une arme contre le racisme scientifique.